University Life with Sachin Ishmael

This week we are lucky to have Sachin Ishmael on the show, who is currently on a work-placement year at ExtraDigital - studying for a BSc ‘Multimedia Technology and Design’ at the University of Kent. Discussion starts off with how much Edd enjoyed his first conference experience (SymfonyLive London), followed by Michael’s decision to lean towards using Data URIs instead of sprites (reducing HTTP requests). We then move on to chat with Sachin about what it is like to be a student in 2014, and his reasoning behind going to University, inspite of the hefty fees. This leads us to reminisce on our own University experiences and the reasons behind choosing the degree’s we did. Finally, we touch upon what drew him to multimedia, and how throughout the course he has surprisingly started to enjoy web development.

Show Links

• Sachin Ishmael - LinkedIn
• Sachin Ishmael - Portfolio
• SymfonyLive London 2014
• Episode 7.5 - The Short One in London - That Podcast with Beau and Dave
• PHP-RFC - isset_ternary
• The Shellshock Bug In About Four Minutes - YouTube
• Shellshock - BASH Vulnerability Tester
• Shellshock - How does it actually work
• How to Protect your Server Against the Shellshock Bash Vulnerability
• ExtraDigital
• University of Kent
• SQL Server - Stored Procedures
• SpritePad - The easiest way to create your CSS sprites
• CSS Tricks - Data URIs
• Animation music - YouTube
• Flash vs HTML
• Marvel - Free mobile and web prototyping for designers
• Flash Player with Google Chrome
• 3ds Max - Autodesk