45: 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.

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