That's me!
Introduction
Hi, my name is Dave and this is obviously my blog.
- Location
- Age
- 32 (as of 2012)
- Personal
- Married with 3 kids.
- Employment
- Senior IT Developer (Web) using ColdFusion, PHP, MSSQL & MySQL for Health related applications / sites.
- Job related skills
- CSS, HTML, JavaScript, ColdFusion, PHP, MSSQL, MySQL
- Gaming
- Atari 2600 > Spectrum > Atari ST > Mega Drive > SNES > PS1 > PC > XBox > PSP > Wii > XBox360
- Current: XBox360 (sometimes the Wii, rarely the PC)
Mister Dai nickname explained
- My real name is David, which I usually prefer shortened to Dave.
- I was born in and have never left Wales, a country in the United Kingdom.
- In Wales we have our own language, Welsh. Although I don’t speak it and the majority speak English anyway.
- In Welsh, David = Dafydd and Dave = Dai (pronounced like Dye / Die).
- Dai comes from an old Celtic word meaning beloved, friend and to shine.
- A mate of mine calls me Mister Dai, so I stuck with it.
Wales? Welsh? What’s that then?
Wales
Sadly, Wales isn’t the most famous country in the world and I’ve encountered people before who haven’t heard of it, don’t know where it is or even think it’s inside England.
Here’s a little map to show you where it is. We do have our own language, called Welsh, but the virtually everyone speaks English anyway and a large amount don’t even speak Welsh (myself included).
If you want any more information you’ll probably get more sense out of Wikipedia than me 
Thanks!
My XBox360 Avatar
There are some important people who’ve helped me along my way in life.
CCC (Crazed Cahoots Company)
I created a gaming clan a long time ago, see the linked page for more in-depth details. If it wasn’t for it’s members pestering me for a website I’d have never gotten into web development. Thanks to that bunch of misfits, I’ve been build them ever since.
Thank you anyone from the CCC, as we’ve all parted ways since. Especially to the early members who got me started on something that’s led along a winding path to my current job. Cheers geezers!
Gareth Burton
My boss from a previous job of mine as a Network Support Officer. If it wasn’t for his flexible approach to working and willingness to at least try out new ideas before dismissing them, I doubt I’d be person I am now. It was great to work with him and I was given time to develop my first web applications, including one which monitored a whole network of computers, creating an audit of their hardware specs, software installed, configurations and network locations.
Thanks Gar! I doubt I’d have ended up with this wide range of skills if it wasn’t for you 
Us Welsh CF bods have to stick together boyo!
You interested in Linux?
Whoops, with all the comments on my S2 Guide I missed this one. Didn’t think there were too many of us CF bods in Wales (apart from the ones I work with).
I experiment with ubuntu from time to time, but that’s about it really.
There are more of us that you think… if you’d be interested in getting to know more about Linux there’s a LUG for South Wales, we’ve just met up on Wednesday evening for Cardiff (first Wednesday of every month), but we do have a technical talk on the 15th in Swansea at the Quakers Centre at 18:00, £2 entry, feel free to pop in. In one I did a presentation on how cool CF is, it went down like a fart in an elevator!
Might be tempted to take a look at the LUG. I’ve really got to sort a resolution issue with my monitor and then I’m thinking of making the switch from Windows, until that’s sorted it’s not an option as my kid wants his games to work
Hi Dave,
i have a question for the slidinglist2.js Script. Please can you help me?
If I click on a parent-Element is erverything cool. The child-Element slide in or out. But If I click on an child-Element, the new website will be open, but there is an JavaScript-Errot “$E(this.options.parentTag, el) is null”. Can you help me to solve the probelm?
Than your very much.
Nice greets from germany.
Steffen
Hi Steffen,
Not sure I’m going to be much help. I abandoned mootools a long time ago now and pretty surprised that some of my nested.js code ended up in slidinglist2.js, which I’d never heard of until you mentioned it!
I’ll take a wild guess though, try replacing the line:
var sub = ($E(this.options.parentTag, el).getParent()) ? $E(this.options.parentTag, el).getParent() : false;
with
var sub = $E(this.options.parentTag, el);
if (el && el.getParent()) {
sub = el.getParent();
} else {
sub = false;
}
Let me know how it goes
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