Alex Elliott

The internet home of a prospective software engineer

Welcome to the personal website and portfolio of Alex Elliott. Here you can see what projects I am currently working on, what work I've done in the past, check out the blog to see exactly what's on my mind, or drop me a message from the contact page.

My Portfolio

Alex-Elliott.co.uk/.me

20th November 2008

Pastesite

PasteSite.Com v3.0

9th February 2008

Pastesite

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Current Projects

zBot Version 2

category
irc
php

zbot project

zBot version 2 will be (obviously) the second release of my PHP IRC bot which resides in irc.zymic.com. It is a ground-up redesign of the original zBot, containing a number of important new features such as support for concurrency, simple text-file configuration and module intercommunication.

zBot Version 2

category
irc
php

zbot project

zBot version 2 will be (obviously) the second release of my PHP IRC bot which resides in irc.zymic.com. It is a ground-up redesign of the original zBot, containing a number of important new features such as support for concurrency, simple text-file configuration and module intercommunication.

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Musings on Syntax Highlighting for Websites

Fri, 06 Feb 2009

Syntax highlighting can be very important to some websites, particularly those featuring articles on programming practice/theory or pastebin/nopaste websites for collaborative debugging. However, most highlighting packages tend to use pattern matching to attempt to correctly highlight a given document rather than a more accurate but more complex lexical parser and do not have the capacity [...]

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Arbutus TC v1

Wed, 07 Jan 2009

So, what have I been doing with my time recently? Bits and pieces of personal project tinkering, and also one small paid project. This project was a website for the Systems Engineering consulting company Arbutus Technical Consulting. It was recognised that they needed an effective web presence to help bring in business [...]

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zBot No More

Sat, 13 Dec 2008

The title here is more sensational than it needs to be, I’m not discontinuing the zbot 2.0 project – rather, I’ve just decided that if I want to release it publicly, then I would like a more generic parent name for the software. The instance of the bot in irc.zymic.com will likely retain the name. [...]

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Setting an Agenda

Sun, 30 Nov 2008

If you’ve checked up on the site since my last blog entry, you’ve probably noticed I have indeed started on the pages for the rest of the site. The about and contact pages are finished, and the footer now automatically displays the four most recent blog entries. Now comes the main bit of the work, [...]

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