About

This is the personal website of Tim Fountain, a web developer based in North Wales, UK.

I work for Incutio, doing mostly PHP and Ruby on Rails web development work. I am the lead developer for Fabric, a commercial content management system in use on a number of sites in the commercial and education sectors.

My blog mostly covers PHP/web development topics. I'm particularly interested in content management, web standards, and more recently the Zend Framework.

I've been doing web development in one form or another for over 10 years, with PHP development taking up a large portion of that. I've also done a touch of journalism in the past, and have written web development articles and computer game reviews for both paper magazines and websites.

For the socially networked, I have profiles on LinkedIn and Facebook, and an sporadically updated Twitter feed.

External articles that may be of interest:

Rasmus - PHP Performance

Full video of a talk Rasmus gave at Digg HQ on PHP performance. After a brief look at PHP 5.3's new features he sets about improving the performance of an out-of-the-box Wordpress installation.

Adobe releases 64-bit flash player for Linux

Adobe have released an alpha of their 64-bit flash player for Linux (I believe this is the first 64-bit player they've done on any platform, it's not available for Windows or Mac yet). And it works great. It may be an alpha but so far I've found it considerably more stable than the released 32-bit wrapper version. It also uses considerably less CPU power. Easy installation instructions via. this blog entry.

MS Office in the browser

The most interesting thing about this announcement is that MS say the system will work in Firefox and Safari as well as IE. The Microsoft of 10 years ago would have used proprietary IE only code and used it as a way to leverage IE market share.

The Future of Advertising, Branding, Media and Communications

Video of a very interesting talk by Gerd Leonhard on the future of the media industry, and content on the Internet.

Future of web browsing from Mozilla Labs

Some interesting ideas about how web browsing might look in the future (watch the first video).