About Teckis

Teckis, for those who are wondering, doesn't actually mean anything (well not in English anyway). I chose it simply as it is quite short and was available to register as a dot com. It also seemed suitable because it didn't dictate an actual coding language (eg php-whatever.web) while still indicating something technical (or tecknical as some might say).

A forum request for a site backend landed me the name back in late 2002 along with a years hosting. Unfortunately neither the site, nor the hosting ran for the full duration as the client (for want of a better word) disappeared. I changed the name registration password and, after a proper paying project elsewhere, forked out the readies for reliable hosting at JaguarPC (which I am very satisfied with so far).
 

About Me

If you are on this page and have bothered reading the aimless drivel above, I guess you are after finding out something about the coder responsible for this site.

My name is Mark Douglas and I currently reside somewhere in the Midlands of the United Kingdom where I spend most of my waking hours sitting in front of my PC trying to think of excuses for not doing any useful work.
Occassionally I fail abysmally at finding a suitable excuse and actually get around to running up a web application or somesuch. On slightly rarer occassions I even get around to finishing a project and then have to pester people to test it. Suffice to say, there are always a couple or more projects on the verge of readiness awaiting an excuse-fail-day and thus completion.

I have been tinkering on the internet for a few years now (the obligatory <p>Hello World</p> occured around November 2000) and progressed through html, css and javascript onto php.
"Aha" I thought after a few weeks of playing around with coding syntaxes, "this php language is really rather useful". More dabbling and I started using MySQL database queries within my scripts (well after a short phase of trying flatfiles) and the floodgates were proverbially open. Running up simple CMS systems and similar scripts had brought a new dynamic edge to my pages.

Then I noticed the GD module (which nowadays is bundled with the php distro) and started to see what user functions I could design to extend the basic available ones. A tutorial for old GD versions, posted over at sitepoint and my bailiwick had been declared.

This site carries on from where that tutorial left off.

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