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In this post I talk about the journey I have made going through a Undergraduate degree at the University of Kent. I have just finished my final year University exams and am eagerly awaiting results day on 19th June 2009. The last 3 years sure have gone quick and im very excited to see what the future holds for me!

In my final term at University I am studying a module called Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing. Most of this module is concerned with technologies surrounding cellular networks and mobile phones (although it does extend into other mobile devices such as PDAs).

The first assessment set for this module was to build a Tip Calculator in Java ME using the CLDC 1.1 and MIDP 2.1 development stacks. We had the option to use the relatively new LWUIT if we wished to as well. When I first found out about this assessment I was rather excited. Playing with the iPhone SDK last summer has given me a desire to experiment with building applications for mobile devices.

I am currently working quite a lot with the Zend PHP Framework. I have grown to really like ZF (Zend Framework). While it does have a rather steep learning curve it is architected very neatly and offers lots of functionality for free.

I was recently constructing dynamic tables and wanted to give every other row a different class. Rather than clutter my view with logic to do this, I decided to create a custom view helper. I decided to make the view helper generic so it can be used to switch between two pieces of content each time it is called. This would mean I could use it for other things where alternating content is also needed.