Welcome!

I am a computer software engineering consultant with over 30 years experience in developing and delivering high-quality software.

I have experience of software project management, website construction and delivery, software systems design, and of course programming in C, C++, PHP, PostScript, .NET and more.

I have over many years produced various magazines in my spare time, and am currently editor of a railway-themed membership magazine with 40 to 50 A4 colour pages, a circulation of over 1000, and which is well thought of.

I can assist you in various ways with your needs as well, please contact me for more information. I normally use Adobe InDesign CC supported by Photoshop and Illustrator.

I have been building and configuring PCs for over 20 years, and have a wide experience of the problems they can exhibit. If you need help getting the best out of your PC, this is what you need. No nonsense help offered, whether it’s just dusting it out, getting advice, or doing major upgrades.

Prices range from £25 for upgrade advice. Please contact me for further information.

I can retouch or restore photographs, removing scratches, repairing some types of tear and other damage, and restoring faded colours. I can also print out the result on a “Pro” printer. Call me to talk over the options.

I have experience in creating websites using the popular open-source content management system (CMS) Drupal, from versions 7 to 9, and have worked in migrating v5 content to v6 and v6 to v7. I can help you set up and maintain your site, as well as selecting appropriate styles (themes) for it.

Prices range from £600 for basic sites. Please contact me for further information.

Examples of work undertaken include:

Ruth recently participated in the IdeaTransform event at the Cambridge Judge Business School, a variety of “boot camp” in which a group of folks get together on Friday night to pitch business ideas and take them forward over the weekend. She had already participated in the Startup Weekend of 2011, organised by many of the same people, and was looking forward to a great weekend.

Recently I have been working on a new website for a client who needed to display both internal and external URLs in a specific way, and also distinguish between, for example, a link to a webform and a link to a procedure.

One of the things I do occasionally is make maps and similar drawings, and not infrequently these have to be saved as a bitmap file, although I create them as vectors. One of the irritating things about Illustrator is its poor handling of large pixel images, even on export, and so the largest vector plots I do (32k points square) won’t render.

In this case, I import the .ai file into Paintshop, which renders it quite happily.

If you do more with your PC than view things obtained from Steam or iTunes, it is important that you keep them safe somehow.

There are two cases to consider:

• You want to protect setups you have downloaded from harm and the need to reconfigure everything.
• You have work of your own you need to protect, as well as downloaded items.

Simple Backups