About
There’s lots of funky ways to keep up to date with Elliot… here’s a few of the best.
Twitter (text), last.fm (music), flickr (pictures)
Elliot is a professional web developer living and working in London.
Originally from Barrow-in-Furness, a small ship-building town in Cumbria; he moved to London in August 2007.
At 14 years old Elliot started a small website for fans of the game ‘counter-strike’. For several years the site grew, allowing him to learn more innovative and cutting-edge development pratices.
‘Counter Strike DL‘ grew to become one of the largest CS communities online with thousands of members, and millions of visitors. Elliot sold CSDL in June 2007 in order to pursue a large block of cheese he noticed rolling down the road.
Elliot started his career as a full-time web developer at the age of 19 working for a small web-development company in his home town, working for household brand names on exciting new projects such as online communities, insurance quote systems, and e-commerce systems.
In 2006 Elliot discovered the ‘CodeIgniter PHP Framework‘ and instantly became a huge fan of its DRY-MVC-OO-MATYCSASA (More Acronyms Than You Can Shake A Stick At) - sleek, efficient, and (worryingly) sexy coding practices.
Elliot went on to produce a series of coding screencasts dedicated to exploring the power and simplicity of the CodeIgniter Framework.
A Mac is always the machine of choice, since it’s got the best of both worlds - a stable unix core, and a damn nice interface… both of which just seem way to distant in a windows machine.
In December 2006, Elliot launched ‘FilePanda‘, a free service built to help people share files online up to 200MB in size.
And now?
Elliot now works as a full-time developer in working in Central London for doof.
When he’s not working, Elliot tends to spend most of his spare time in a bed, on a bed, or near a bed. Some other activities he enjoys (preferably whilst in bed) are: playing guitar, watching films, geeking around the net, and drinking far too much coffee (or wine).
Dancing has also recently become one of Elliot’s pass-times, attending ‘Ceroc’ lessons in Ealing, and salsa lessons in the west-end.
Interesting Facts About Elliot James Haughin
- Loves peppercorn sauce
- Had 60% average attendance during final year at Thorncliffe Secondary School
- Very Pedantic
- Qualifications:
9 GCSE’s
4 A-Levels
5 scout badges (canoeing, sewing, climbing, drama, cooking) - Once trained for 3 years to become a ninja in the hope of being accepted into a nin-ternship (a very secret and dangerous ninja internship)… It didn’t work.
- Wants to kill whoever invented the loud music-playing speaker now present in all new mobile phones.
- Has never visited the north pole without a wooly hat
- Is the step-father of a 3-legged hamster called ’stumpy’ (who likes to eat shirts)
