AndyDev - The Site of Web Developer Andrew Yates

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Welcome to my site.

I am Andrew Yates, a Web/iOS Developer based in Birmingham, UK. I am lead developer at 383 Project Ltd based in Birmingham's Jewellery Quarter. Most of my time is spent working with Wordpress to produce websites for a wide range of clients.

I have a growing interest in iOS development, having completed a few apps I am keen to develop more apps as well as the skills I have already learnt with these completed apps.

I am an active Tweeter and can also be found on many other social networking websites, most of which are linked to throughout this site and can also be found below. If you wish to get in touch please use the "Contact Me" button below.

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Latest Blog Post...

Designing in the Browser

8th August 2010

For the past few revisions of this site I have designing the site in the browser. To start the process I grab my HTML5 markup and save it locally on my machine with fresh CSS files that hide every element to begin with so I have my blank canvas. For this revision of the site [...]

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Ruins in Polmont Old Parish Church Churchyard

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Off to mine after a flying @urbancoffeeco visit. #fb 17:57pm
Andy checked in @ Urban Coffee Company 17:49pm
Time to trek to Solihull. But first off to my apartment to pick up bits and bobs. 17:34pm
@ellielovell @joyouscomms Hope Awaken works for you, just make sure the app is open when you go to sleep. :) 17:30pm
Andy checked in @ 383 Project 12:50pm
Andy checked in @ Apple Store 12:13pm
I'm at Apple Store (Level 3, Upper Mall West, Bullring Shopping Centre, Birmingham). http://4sq.com/4OLNI0 12:13pm
Looks like the drive in my iMac has gone kaput. 11:10am
@keybuk I have to agree, surely if it was doing an update it would have a progress bar. Sort of worried that it's taking so long. 10:49am
Staring at this... http://yfrog.com/j6ac2erj 10:46am

What am I doing?

Off to mine after a flying @urbancoffeeco visit. #fb

What was I doing?

Time to trek to Solihull. But first off to my apartment to pick up bits and bobs.
@ellielovell @joyouscomms Hope Awaken works for you, just make sure the app is open when you go to sleep. :)
I'm at Apple Store (Level 3, Upper Mall West, Bullring Shopping Centre, Birmingham). http://4sq.com/4OLNI0
Looks like the drive in my iMac has gone kaput.
@keybuk I have to agree, surely if it was doing an update it would have a progress bar. Sort of worried that it's taking so long.