After many months of development, I am glad to say that www.asht.info has finally launched.

Who are ASHT?

The Anglo Sikh Heritage Trail is a project of the Maharajah Duleep Singh Centenary Trust. The Trust was first established in 1993, the centenary year of the death of Maharajah Duleep Singh, with the primary objective of highlighting and promoting Anglo Sikh heritage. Since then it has engaged in a series of initiatives, including the Arts of the Sikh Kingdoms exhibition in collaboration with the V&A, the annual Portrait of Courage lecture at the Imperial War Museum and the Jawans to Generals exhibition in collaboration with English Heritage. Other projects have included the commissioning of a bronze statue of Maharajah Duleep Singh at Thetford; the first major piece of Sikh art outside India, as well as two highly successful festivals of Anglo Sikh heritage.

The site has a user friendly CMS, newsletter system as well as various ways for the community to contribute. The site was built using PHP/Codeigniter framework with a MySQL database. Client side development resulted in clean CSS/HTML markup as well as the creation of database driven flash elements. Site wide search makes use of Google’s Custom Search.

Visit ASHT

In my quest for the best web development IDE, i have come across many different editors. Dreamweaver, Various PHP IDE’s as well as small notepad replacements. For one reason or another, all have failed to live up to my expectations.

I don’t ask for much, i aint all that fussy. All i want is an editor that has syntax colouring, code hints, ftp and support for mainstream languages. Well i think the search is over, for the last 6 weeks i have used with near perfection an editor that has all and more.

Aptana is an editor that is built on Eclipse. It has an array of simple features that you would actually use in day to day development. Not to mention support for additional plugins (as Eclipse, e.g. CFEclipse). It has also fixed a lot of the bugs that has plagued Eclipse for a while now, such as the way it would mangle code during an undo operation.

Definitely worth a look… Aptana home page

Not to be outdone by Pixelwork, myself and three others, Dan, Ben and Rob, decided to take on the the swingy, climby, walk across small bits of wood type course at Sherwood Pines.

As we began making our way round, it became clear that the other three needed a leader figure to help them round. The fear etched across their faces began to dissipate once they saw the fearless antics of myself as i bounded around each obstacle with Jackie Chan like agility. With constant encouragement and leading by example, my fearless attitude began to rub off on them the further we progressed.

Finally, the end of the course was met with an all round appreciation of my bravado and relentless support in order to help them achieve what appeared impossible, and to complete the course.

(what for it…. hehe)

Below are some pictures and vids from the day.

Start Slide Show with PicLens Lite

I dare anyone to say they would not want one!

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Forget developing invisibility cloaks for the army, all they need to do is send them in on push bikes. You can guarantee that no one will see you, that includes people pulling out of side roads, setting off from being parked, opening car doors… list is endless.

What is it about being on a bike? If I was walking, I would be seen. Why when on a bike, no one can see you? The number of times I have had “altercations” with drivers.

This has yet to deter me, neither will the weather. I will continue to do my bit for the environment, as well as my wallet and persist with biking.

My route is not too bad, around 60% is cycle paths. Which is a must in Leicester as it is fair to say driving in Leicester is like an episode of Whacky Races.

I have a helmet, and I feel that I am the only one with a helmet. Have yet to see anyone else with a helmet.

Saying all that, there is a “warm” feeling when you hold up traffic momentarily. But less said about that the better. ;)