About
OK, short and simple. I'm Stuart Connolly, a 21 year old Software Engineering student living in Edinburgh, Scotland. I'm currently in my third of my four year degree at Napier University.
Aside from studying I also work as a Software Engineer for the IT Operations Process, Quality and Automation team at Sun Microsystems as part of my degree. Put simply, I design, develop and maintain a range of internal applications and tools to help Sun run smoothly.
About The Site
The site is basically a place for me to manage my own personal development projects (most notably Switch, a backup app for Mac OS X) as well as post random stuff relating to development and open source software.
Colophon
Colophon is defined as:
"An inscription placed usually at the end of a book, giving facts about its publication." #
stuconnolly.com is hosted by DreamHost and is powered by a customised version of Serve, primarily to enable blogging support. Serve is written entirely in PHP and is backed by a MySQL database. If you would like to know how something works, just ask.
I know, I could of used WordPress or one of the many other blogging systems out there, but that would have been too easy. Plus I had nothing to do during the summer of 2005.
The site is managed and coded (including Serve) using TextMate and good old ftp from
the terminal all on Mac OS X.
Disclaimer
The opinions expressed on this site are the personal views of Stuart Connolly only, and do not represent the views or policies of my employer, Sun Microsystems, Inc. or any other person or company.