The Telegraphic | Home website of Danny Price, Multimedia Design, Web Development, Physicist and musician

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Welcome

Welcome to The Telegraphic: the online home of Danny Price. Danny is a web developer, physicist and musician hailing from Perth, Western Australia and currently living in Oxford. As a web developer, I focus on the creation of sites that enrich communities: I have designed specialised platforms for artists, musicians, schools and other community groups. As a physicist, I am interested in opto-mechanics, quantum optics and radio astronomy instrumentation. A list of my publications can be found here. Finally, as a musician, I play guitar in Glyph, and am currently working on a musical soundtrack inspired by George Orwell's 1984.

Web Portfolio

I believe sites should be flexible and easy to change. I don't believe in re-inventing the wheel - so use existing open source technologies to cut development times. Have a look at what I've done.

Publications

There have been a few projects throughout my academic career that I'm particularly proud of. From a Bundu Dusun sketch grammar to my Honours thesis, a list of my publications is available here.

Weblog

There's a lot of information out there, and occasionally I feel the need to share something I've come across. You can find my musings, rants and words of advice in my weblog.

Web Design

I believe sites should be flexible and easy to change. I don't believe in re-inventing the wheel - so use existing open source technologies to cut development times. For those of you who want to know exactly how I operate: I prefer to code in xHTML / CSS on PHP / mySQL frameworks. I use javascript sparingly, and prefer the mootools framework for creating AJAX enriched sites. I'm an advocate of web accessibility and write code that complies with the W3C web accessibility guidelines. If you have no idea what the last 3 sentences meant, then come and have a look at my portfolio.

Physics

In my undergraduate at UWA, I did a double degree in Arts and Science, with honours in Physics. I'm currently doing a PhD in Astrophysics at the Univeristy of Oxford. I'm working on a project called the SKA, a huge telescope that will be built in either South Africa or Western Australia. I'm also interested in opto-mechanics, which I studied in my honours. It's a fledgling but exciting field, which is set to achieve some great things. I'll join with my supervisor to predict that a Nobel prize will be awarded to an "opto-mechanist" in the next few years. You can find my publications here.

Music

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. Winston Smith, his chin nuzzled into his breast in an effort to escape the vile wind, slipped quickly through the glass doors of Victory Mansions, though not quickly enough to prevent a swirl of gritty dust from entering along with him.