markcadman.com
about me
I'm a 26-year-old WordPress developer from
Stourbridge in the West Midlands, UK.
I'm passionate about the internet, gadgets (often gadgets with access to the internet) and photography (and largely via Flickr, photography and the internet).
My social network output is mainly Twitter, Flickr and some Delicious linking. Though I also make use of Google Reader's 'Share' functionality. I don't really blog in a lengthy regular sense, but this a WordPress site so if I do it will be here.
I like to watch the F1 (which I'm enjoying much more now the BBC has taken it over) and MotoGP (where I like to consider Valentino Rossi to be an honorary Brit [he does live in England!], though I root for James Toseland. MotoGP isn't the same without Toby Moody, Julian Ryder and Randy Mamola though. Best commentary team ever.
contact me
If you'd just like to get in touch, try my twitter account or email contact@markcadman.com if you prefer.
blog posts
Occasionally I write something that can't fit into 140 characters. If that happens and it's worth writing, I'll write a blog post:
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lifestream
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Played Just Cause 2.
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Hamilton Gold: “The pace car needs to pick up the pace…” F1 [cmadman]
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Guess that's Button's Championship chances gone. Gutted. [cmadman]
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Know of existing work to add variables to CSS? Thoughts on implementation? Comment on @ratrijs's new personal blog: http://bit.ly/95da5O [cmadman]
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Played Just Cause 2.
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Played Crackdown 2.
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Awesome Underwater Fort. Though how quickly it would disintegrate if it was damaged? #devour http://devour.com/video/underwater-fort/ [cmadman]
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August 28th |
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Played Grand Theft Auto IV.
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Played Mafia II Demo.
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Played Just Cause 2.
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Boo. My amp switches HDMI sources but can't take the audio on the way (afaict: Onkyo SR505E).
Annoyed. Time for a change perhaps. [cmadman]
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Played Forza Motorsport 3.
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work
Have a project you'd like to discuss? Email me via work@markcadman.com
Currently I work for a regional newspaper group in a team called MNA Digital, where we develop news sites powered almost entirely by WordPress such as the Express & Star, which Matt Mullenweg (co-creator of WordPress) linked to in a post entitled Best WP Newspaper site.
previously on markcadman: jobs
Before my job at MNA Digital I worked for Sandwell MBC, working to make their many websites as accessible and usable as possible. I worked with taxonomy and accessibility standards and pioneered some greasemonkey scripts to cut costs and accelerate development.
Before Sandwell MBC I worked at Sandwell LEA, where our focus was on the many sites within Education and Children's Services. In addition to the accessibility and usability work I extended into central council I also implemented standards based websites for local schools, teaching head teachers how to use software such as DreamWeaver to manage them internally.
portfolio
Whilst I encourage anyone interested to look at the above sites which I'm currently and have previously been employed to develop, markcadman.com is a good example of my WordPress, CSS, HTML, PHP and JavaScript/jQuery skills.
about markcadman.com
The image header slice fetches a random image from my last 500 (an arbitrary flickr.com limit) using the FlickrAPI and phpFlickr. The FlickrAPI queries are cached to a database and the images are cached to a subdomain to increase performance. I use jQuery for all of the header and colour animation, it also makes a JSON request to a php service (built on the foundations of this excellent 'ambilight' experiment) to select a complimentary colour which I then animate into several elements with jQuery.
When I made my original sketch I was intending to write a lifestream aggregation plugin myself, unaware of the excellent wp-lifestream from iBegin. Once I found that I decided to concentrate on modifying it to suit my needs and I've found it very useful.