My name is John Large. I am a qualified Web Developer & all round geek. After completing a Degree in Web Development, I went on to work in the Web Design industry as a developer. After a couple of years working in the industry I became disillusioned with the whole corporate environment. This is an industry dominated and controlled by marketing types who wish to make maximum profit from minimum service. As such I decided to to leave the corporate web development world and concentrate on my own flavour of web development. I now produce sites for myself, and for various customers, but work solely on word of mouth (and word of internet) basis. I do not advertise my services as such and now only take on projects which I feel are for a good cause, or have a positive ultimate goal. The past few years have been enlightening and I look forward to a future free of corporate influence.
I also started back in Academia in 2007. Studying for my Masters degree was a great experience, and I relished being back in the Intelligentsia so to speak. It was nice to be doing things for myself again, and every new challenge I met with enthusiasm and gusto. I Graduated with a PGc, PGd and an MSc with Merit in Computer Science from Manchester University.
I now reside in St. Helens, England with my wife Vicki. Our days consist of reading, researching and improving our small business ventures. We have a few big projects in the pipeline which also keep is very busy.
With this blog, I hope to vent my frustrations with regards to Web Development issues, and similar internet based rantings. It will also be a place to showcase new projects and inspiration as well as profiling my ‘year without spending’ project experiment.
