Hi, I'm Chris!

Christopher Buckley's Weblog – CBuckley I am a 19 year old student studying a BSc (hons) Networking and Security at Staffordshire University. I am an IT all-rounder with skills in the fields of Web Programming and Mobile Applications however my main focus is Network Engineering.

07 November 2011 ~ 0 Comments

My views on Google+

I haven’t posted in a while but I thought I would like to post my opinion on Google s new Social Network Google+. I think it’s great that users have another service that they can use which is not Facebook in order to keep connected. Google+ has a nice clean UI which they have also now set [...]

14 August 2011 ~ 0 Comments

rm -rf /home … Quite literally

So recently I have decided that my webserver needed a spring cleaning thanks to ButtonBashers and numerous other web scripts automatically downloading things onto my server. I have in total deleted 20GB of data 10GB of that being 4000 flash games. That aside now that I have sorted the server and the permissions out, I [...]

10 May 2010 ~ 1 Comment

Spotify Goes Social

I have been following spotify for a while now and have been a spotify premium user for a couple of months. Today I signed in to find that the Spotify terms were asking me to agree and the firewall asked me to re-allow access to the internet. I was greeted by a welcome screen asking [...]

21 March 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Windows Live Wave 4

So today I was told that the windows live wave 4 has been leaked to the public so I decided to give it a try. On first glance you notice many new enhancements. Since I only uise live mail and messenger these are the only ones that I can really provide any input on but [...]

25 January 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Silverlight Facebook App

So for those of you that don’t know, facebook has now got an application that is in beta using the silverlight 4 library. Today I decided I would take a look as facebook is something that I use every day to keep in contact with my friends and family. Just to mention a few of [...]

02 January 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Adobe Photoshop Student Edition

So over the xmas holiday period I have ordered Adobe Photoshop CS4 Student edition from amazon for £154. The software I have used as a tool for creating different designs for my portfolio I decided that I should buy legally after trialing the product. When buying student editions of adobe products you are required to [...]

20 November 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Google ChromeOS

Today I decided that I would take a look at the google chromeOS as I had a little time to spare and I thought I would give a little review of it. Firstly the good points, when you first load up chrome it loads very quickly, you are presented with the login screen pretty much [...]

06 October 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Google Wave Thoughts

Google Wave Thoughts

So today I finally got my invite for Google’s new service “Google Wave” after being nominated last week. I eagerly logged on and started testing it out. The service is quite impressive however I feel like I am working on something that is a bit primitive and maybe the features could have simply been added [...]

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21 September 2009 ~ 0 Comments

This week in my college life

So I have just recently started back after 14-15 weeks awat from college and I must actually say I was glad to get back. This year I only have 4 lecturers, Euan, Jackie, Dan and Andy which will take some getting used to after having so many last year. This year is full of some [...]