My first blog and subsequently my first post :-)

So, hello everyone (if everyone is anyone!), this is my first post so I thought I would give you a little information about myself - I'm a 24 year old male from Newport, South Wales, UK.

I currently work for the Office for National Statistics as a Build and Release Engineer. My job involves gathering all code from developers and creating a package that can be deployed to our application servers for the business area staff to do their bit; this generally involves collating data, analysing it then releasing the new information to the public. A few of the higher profile projects would include the 2010 Census, National Accounts and many others. Some of the software that I use on a regular basis is IBM's Rational suite which handles our source control, Apache Ant and Maven for the build framework along with Oracle Database Management System (DBMS) for all that crazy database stuff. I've been in this job for 6 weeks now and I'm enjoying it tremendously, it's my first job since graduating and I'm always learning something new.

I graduated in June 2009 becoming a BSc Computer Games Development, however, since graduating I haven't done much in the way of games programming which upsets me a little; I have however got myself a copy of the latest “Game Coding Complete” by Mike McShaffry which I do plan to read through and start programming examples from. As I work my way through each example I will be sure to post my experiences and error's – as anyone in programming will now are all too unavoidable.
Well, thanks for reading and I hope you come back for more!