Hi! I'm Olly Jackson, a 29 year old culture and technology loving Web Developer living and working in Edinburgh.
In my spare time I do freelance web development and design. I develop and maintain bustrackr, improving on a flawed public service. I admin a flickr group on Edinburgh Urban Art, I was an initial writer over at Google Sightseeing, and I'm the webmaster for the North Pennines Heritage trust.
I work at Whitespace as a Digital Media Developer. Previously I worked for three years at Valley Technology as a Web Developer where I did bespoke web application development. Previous to that I spent two years working for Scotweb Marketing at the ecommerce coal-face of Scotweb Store and on various client sites.
Got an interesting project that you want to chat about? Get in touch.
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Bio
I was born in Sheffield, England, in the marvellous year of 1981 and moved to the small industrial suburb of Thornaby before I was 1. My parents and I lived there for a couple of years before moving to the slightly larger industrial suburb of Billingham. I attended Bewley Infants and Junior School and then went on to Billingham Campus School. After my GCSEs I gained a place at Bede College where I studied Computing, Mathematics, Business Studies and General Studies. I then upped sticks and moved to Scotland to attend Edinburgh University to study Computer Science. After university I had grown to like Ediburgh so much I decided to stay! I've now lived here for over ten years and love it.
If you're fascinated by my life story so far and crave more information there is a page of random facts about me.
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Set in Georgia, using the YUI reset CSS, jQuery, the FriendFeed API, phpFlickr, my own PHP glue and Wordpress for the blog. Hosted by me on an Ubuntu virtual machine from Xeriom Networks.
This is the seventh iteration of my site. Previous designs are archived for historical (and comedy) value.
Last Updated: 29th June 2010