About Me
Hello. I’m Philip Gamble.
But you knew that already. You may know me through my online alias of freeg131. I am 19 years old and currently in my second year of a BSc Computer Science degree at the University of Birmingham. Out of term I live in the town of Watford with my family.
So what have you done?
The best way to see what I have done is to view my Linkedin profile, it lists my work experience and other things I think will be of interest to perspective employers. You can also view a list of the websites I currently run although the vast majority of these do not require regular updates.
Programming
Although I study Computer Science I am not a huge fan of programming. The main language used in my course is Java and I have also used Prolog and Matlab but my own preference is for web-based development and scripting where I have used php, MySQL, HTML, CSS, JavaScript and Ajax.
So what are you interested in?
I am interested in online content creation – in particular online media be it for local journalism or in specialist issue websites. My favourite platform for creating such material is Wordpress which I have been using for a long time! This also lead me to develop an interest in generating traffic through Search Engine Optimisation and from social media.
Game Maker
Game Maker is a free game development tool from YoYo Games.
I manage, and am the main author of, the popular Game Maker news blog GameMakerBlog.com which is home to news and discussion about the community which surrounds the game creation platform. I have previously been a regular and long standing contributor to the MarkUp game development magazine and also contributed to the rival GameMakerTech publication as well as appearing on several podcasts, radio shows and the video service GMTV.
One of the few spin-offs from the main blog is the Game Maker affiliation service which dynamically links websites providing Game Maker resources and games. Upwards of 8 million banners impressions are served annually resulting in over 35,000 click-throughs.
Promotion
In the past I took a greater interested in the Internet marketing sector, running popular paid-to-read email websites including no2allmails and a paid-to-promote site which at its peak was recieving over 150,000 full page ad views a day and was delivering upwards of 6,600,000 banner impressions a month.
But this is all boring, what else do you like?
Table Tennis, exploring the countryside on bike and foot, skiing and Formula 1 (levels of active participation vary!). Listening to new music on Spotify. Reading interesting pages on Wikipedia and looking at interesting statistics.