About Internotes

Acknowledgements

Much of the content of this site is written in Markdown, because writing should be simple.

Markdown files are rendered into real HTML using Parsedown — http://parsedown.org from Emanuil Rusev.

Code samples are further rendered using the excellent Prism — http://prismjs.com from the excellent Lea Verou.

Design was by Andy at Satori Graphics.

Technologies

The rest of the site is written using Core Technologies: HTML, PHP, JavaScript & CSS, using a little SQL to drive the back end database. The database itself is SQLite.

JavaScript is used sparingly, not because I’m afraid to use it, but because you can do so much with modern CSS. Speaking of which, life is so much simpler now that we can afford to ignore Legacy Browsers, and start using modern CSS and JavaScript. If you’re still using one of the older browsers, you’re probably not reading this site anyway.

The basic framework is built by me, and will soon be published for wider use, once I get the chance to clean up the code.

No jQuery, BootStrap, WordPress or any other framework has been used, to keep the project lean and clean. You’d be surprised how much you can do without these addon technologies weighing you down.

About Me

My name is Mark, and I’m a consultant Web Developer. I do web development, write about it, and train in it. I also work with SQL for a number of databases.

That’s not all I do, of course. I also have an interest in Music & The Arts (I play a little guitar), as well as in Science & Mathematics (my background is in teaching Maths).

Cookies & Data

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• Cookies are used to save some information on your browser. This information is sent back to the server.
• Local Storage is also used to save information on your browser. However it is not sent to the sever, and so is more private.

This site uses minimal cookies and data storage to help with the way you use it. For example, the Bookmarks feature stores some data on your own browser to help remember your favourite links.

As there are no third parties involved, none of this goes anywhere else.

You can check your browser to see what is being stored. Or you can click here.