About the PHP Ninja
My name is Jem (short for Jemma) and I am a self-taught web developer / self-confessed PHP ninja for a local marketing company in the UK; when I'm not at work coding I'm at home poking my free scripts instead. I've been developing websites since early 2000 and have a love for PHP, X/HTML and CSS. I also like to play with SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) and see this website as an example of my success.
I have a strong sense of humour, a passion for all things geeky and a serious geek t-shirt fetish. I like a good cup of coffee (milk, one sugar) and frequently indulge in the wrong sort of food. Creme eggs were made to taunt the devil, I tell you.
Aside from computing and maintaining my free open source scripts (the Bella~ series), my hobbies stretch to photography (purely amateur), reading (PHP manuals/Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels) and spending time with my beautiful niece and nephew. I am also a huge Nintendo gaming fan and the current owner of a GameCube, Nintendo DS and Wii. The latter justified by the notion that it will help me get fit.
I share a living space with my long-suffering partner, Karl and our adorable cats Hex and Fudge, and our guinea pigs, Ginger and Afro. Karl has his own website but doesn't quite share my love of mark-up. We got together after I left school and have been together since. Talk of marriage results in the decision that — if we ever do bother — we'll both do it in our jeans and a t-shirt. We're cool like that.
This is my website. It's not sponsored in any way. I write about personal crap that nobody ever understands; rant wildly about the Internet/the vast amount of idiots that use it; and distribute knowledge about my favourite subjects. I am hosted at Clook; domains are purchased through Namecheap.com.
The blog is a hodge-podge of home-grown blog system (the 'blogmonster') and content imported from various WordPress installs from over the years.
