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Where am I?
Fully Independent is the personal site of Phu Ly. After running through a few possible candidates for the domain name, I decided on FullyIndependent. It’s a bit of a play on words with my name being ‘Phu Ly’ (say it quickly) and the independent nature of this site. I also develop and maintain a few other sites if..else, my photoblog, and end turn
Who are you?
If you haven’t already worked it out, I’m Phu Ly. I grew up in London though I did spend a great deal of my formative years in Leeds which explains why I’m an ardent LUFC fan. For a living, I work as a developer for a major technology consulting company and primarily have experience in Java, C#, PHP and Oracle technologies (SQL, PL/SQL, Oracle Spatial, Apps and RDBMS). I’ve been involved with computers ever since my dad bought me a Sinclair Spectrum. Since then, I’ve learnt and programmed in numerous languages, graduated from Brunel University with a First Class Honours in Computer Science and worked for Oracle on the development of their e-Business enterprise applications suite.
When I’m away from a computer screen, I’m a big film buff. To get an idea of my movie taste, here are a random assortment of the films that I like:
- Chungking Express
- Lost in Translation
- Reservoir Dogs
- Mean Streets
- Schindler’s List
- Before Sunset/Before Sunrise
- Ran
- The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
- Road to Perdition
I also enjoy reading, digital photography, gadgets, video-games and football though usually not all at the same time:-)
How is this site created?
FullyIndependent is powered by Wordpress and is hosted by Dreamhost The current iteration of this site’s design is called Treasure and has been designed to conform to web standards. Valid XHTML is used for markup and CSS for the presentation and design. Not only does this should mean that the site is more accessible & flexible but it also means that it is easier to develop & maintain and that bandwidth is used more efficiently. Also, while this site is designed to take advantage of modern browsers, it should still be readable and functional in older browsers as well as on devices such as PDAs and phones. It even manages to look reasonable in the text-based Lynx browser.
The programs that I use to develop this site are pretty modest. I generally do most of the coding (both the html/css design and the server-side php code) in a regular text-editor. For FTP access, I use the open-source FileZilla client and my browser of choice is Firefox.
You can also syndicate this site and read it in your favourite XML feed aggregator. Some popular aggregators are Saucereader and Feeddemon
Legal stuff
FullyIndependent is copyrighted by Phu Ly with all rights reserved. You may not use any material, articles, logos, pictures, writings, photos or any content from this site without expressed written permission. My words are my own and do not necessarily represent those of my company. Any comments posted to this site belong to their respective authors, and I assumes no responsiblity for their words. Also, any form of spamming, whether it is email, comments or any other possible concoction is severly frowned upon and anyone trying to do so will incur my wrath!
You’re free to link to any page on this site. However, bandwidth hijacking (e.g. pulling images off my server directly from another site) is frowned upon and will make me mad. Generally, just use common sense and you’ll be fine. Now that’s all out of the way, enjoy:)
Where am I?
Fully Independent is the personal site of Phu Ly. After running through a few possible candidates for the domain name, I decided on FullyIndependent. It’s a bit of a play on words with my name being ‘Phu Ly’ (say it quickly) and the independent nature of this site. I also develop and maintain a few other sites if..else, my photoblog, and end turn
Who are you?
If you haven’t already worked it out, I’m Phu Ly. I grew up in London though I did spend a great deal of my formative years in Leeds which explains why I’m an ardent LUFC fan. For a living, I work as a developer for a major technology consulting company and primarily have experience in Java, C#, PHP and Oracle technologies (SQL, PL/SQL, Oracle Spatial, Apps and RDBMS). I’ve been involved with computers ever since my dad bought me a Sinclair Spectrum. Since then, I’ve learnt and programmed in numerous languages, graduated from Brunel University with a First Class Honours in Computer Science and worked for Oracle on the development of their e-Business enterprise applications suite.
When I’m away from a computer screen, I’m a big film buff. To get an idea of my movie taste, here are a random assortment of the films that I like:
- Chungking Express
- Lost in Translation
- Reservoir Dogs
- Mean Streets
- Schindler’s List
- Before Sunset/Before Sunrise
- Ran
- The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
- Road to Perdition
I also enjoy reading, digital photography, gadgets, video-games and football though usually not all at the same time:-)
How is this site created?
FullyIndependent is powered by Wordpress and is hosted by Dreamhost The current iteration of this site’s design is called Treasure and has been designed to conform to web standards. Valid XHTML is used for markup and CSS for the presentation and design. Not only does this should mean that the site is more accessible & flexible but it also means that it is easier to develop & maintain and that bandwidth is used more efficiently. Also, while this site is designed to take advantage of modern browsers, it should still be readable and functional in older browsers as well as on devices such as PDAs and phones. It even manages to look reasonable in the text-based Lynx browser.
The programs that I use to develop this site are pretty modest. I generally do most of the coding (both the html/css design and the server-side php code) in a regular text-editor. For FTP access, I use the open-source FileZilla client and my browser of choice is Firefox.
You can also syndicate this site and read it in your favourite XML feed aggregator. Some popular aggregators are Saucereader and Feeddemon
Legal stuff
FullyIndependent is copyrighted by Phu Ly with all rights reserved. You may not use any material, articles, logos, pictures, writings, photos or any content from this site without expressed written permission. My words are my own and do not necessarily represent those of my company. Any comments posted to this site belong to their respective authors, and I assumes no responsiblity for their words. Also, any form of spamming, whether it is email, comments or any other possible concoction is severly frowned upon and anyone trying to do so will incur my wrath!
You’re free to link to any page on this site. However, bandwidth hijacking (e.g. pulling images off my server directly from another site) is frowned upon and will make me mad. Generally, just use common sense and you’ll be fine. Now that’s all out of the way, enjoy:)