About me

I am a professional web developer based in Bristol, UK with over a decade of commercial experience in the web industry. I specialise in PHP, Javascript, CSS, Python and Django.

I grew up in east anglia, but now live in the south of the lovely city of Bristol, with my wife, son and two cats. I am an unashamed geek, living and breathing digital technology. I am a regular contributor to underscore - a very active mailing list for digital media professionals in the Bristol and Bath area. To keep a balance on things I also dabble in music (mostly bass guitar), bicycling, surfing and skateboarding. I keep a skateboarding blog called "Too Old To Skate" and a blog about mobile working. I am @rickhurst on twitter.

About the site

This is my personal blog which was first started back in 2002, it varies between technical notes and articles, random musings, rants and ideas, mostly relating to the technical side of web development

Technical stuff

The site runs on a home brewed blog engine based on my PHP5 "microframework" eatStatic, which uses text files for blog posts and json files for all other data storage