Author Archives: Jamie
Why Psychology? To investigate the reasons for my students choosing to study psychology I set up a surveymonkey.com questionnaire that I emailed around to my current classes and placed on a Facebook page for previous students to complete. Over the duration of 5 days 54 students responded with the majority of those being current student [...]
This morning I wanted to hack around with Vanilla forums and convert a phpBB 3 installation over to it. After several attempts at the installer I found that I couldn’t run it ‘as is’ on my 1&1 managed server. The issue is that Vanilla’s PDO connection method has been written to only work with host access (such [...]
Well I hope not. This isn’t the first ‘Difficult First Post‘ I’ve made but at least then I knew where I wanted to take the site. Anyway. A place for my thoughts and musings on what I’m up to in the world of Psychology, teaching, writing or coding.
Jamie Davies is occasionally brilliant, sometimes moody, workaholic and lazy to the bone. A 28-year-old psychology teacher, writer, geek and all-round-top-chap from Yorkshire.