Nickbits.co.uk

A few days late but here is my review of 2009 and preview of 2010. Let us start of by looking at the website itself...

I was recently sent a review copy of "Drupal 6 JavaScript and jQuery" by Matt Butcher. Having recently started to use JQuery with Drupal it was a shame I had not discovered it earlier.

Jim Henson's The Dark Crystal is another one of those classic films from the 1980', 1982 to be exact.

Anyone who knows me knows I love to use the Drupal Content Management System (CMS). In my opinion Drupal is relatively easy to use, although it can be daunting knowing how to configure the system to accomplish the desired working website. For example, setting up a blog with Drupal is easy, but how do you add a gallery? What if you would like to pull RSS feeds from another source or even run an e-commerce website?

Okay so you have probably seen "Long Way Down" on TV and could buy the DVD, but the book is fantastic.

Despite 75% of the Earth being covered in water, we know very little about the creatures and plant life in the Seas.

Too many website developers still code their websites for older browsers. For example some still build their websites aiming them at Internet Explorer 5 or even earlier and then add additional functionality for newer browsers. This is known as progressive coding.

I have long been interested in astronomy and have eagerly followed developments such as Beagle and Hubble. Many discoveries and advances have been made, which are nicely packaged in to a short series on Space, presented by Sam Niell.

The Commodore Story: A Company on the Edge by Brian Bagnall is, as the name suggests, all about the history of Commodore. Commodore was seen by many in the 70’s and 80’s as a pioneering computer company with cutting edge machines that were on a par with the likes of the Apple Mac and Lisa.

Few people or series can claim they have changed the way we look at the world.