About tomoakley.net

  1. Why was tomoakley.net written?
  2. What do I need to use tomoakley.net?
  3. How can I contact Tom Oakley?
  4. tomoakley.net history
Why was tomoakley.net written?
tomoakley.net was written to hold Tom Oakley's CV and photos. Now it's kept up to date as a hobby.
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What do I need to use tomoakley.net?
A computing device with an HTML browser is all you need. Pages should render on any browser on any platform.
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How can I contact Tom Oakley?
For privacy reasons, Tom's contact details have been removed from tomoakley.net, but you can still contact him through the email form.
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Web site history

Date URI Description
2010-01-24 http://www.tomoakley.net/downloads/
http://www.tomoakley.net/xml/
Downloads area removed because my public projects are on other websites such as assembla. XML demos removed because they were out of date and XML is now widely used and understood.
2006-03-18 http://www.tomoakley.net/downloads/ Downloads area created.
2005-01-20 http://www.tomoakley.net/* Moved all tomoakley.net files from Netweaver to 1&1 due to security problems.
2004-07-24 http://www.tomoakley.net/cv.php Curriculum Vitae updated and .doc, .pdf, and .sxw formats included.
2004-01-18 http://wap.tomoakley.net/ WAP pages completely rewritten to remove personal details and allow download of Java MIDlets (programs for mobile devices such as 'phones).
2003-12-22 http://www.tomoakley.net/gallery/ Photos page updated using the excellent Gallery application.
2003-09-13 http://www.tomoakley.net/squash.php Dyson Squash Ladder goes live on tomoakley.net
It quickly becomes 2nd highest hit on Google.
2003-01-12 http://www.tomoakley.net/email.php
http://www.tomoakley.net/common.js
http://www.tomoakley.net/index.php
PHP and JavaScript form checking code improved to reduce false negatives. Google Search added to homepage.
2002-11-17 http://www.tomoakley.net/email.php
http://www.tomoakley.net/common.js
PHP and JavaScript form checking code added to XHTML pages. PHP form checking code added to WML pages.
2002-09-20 http://www.tomoakley.net/xml/ Example XML pages generated to test out MathML, SVG, 3DML, and SMIL.
2002-08-20 http://www.tomoakley.net/ All pages updated to XHTML1.0 Strict then XHTML1.1 to allow modularity (such as inline MathML and SVG).
2002-05-20 http://www.tomoakley.net/contact.php Personal contact details removed for privacy reasons and all email addresses removed to reduce spam.
2002-04-20 http://www.tomoakley.net/email.php Email form added.
2002-04-10 http://wap.tomoakley.net/ WAP pages added to give directions to the author's house and other contact details. Written in WML.
2002-03-20 http://www.tomoakley.net/ Domain moved from Fasthosts to Netweaver, and at the same time migrated from Windows 2000 server to LAMP system. SSI replaced by PHP, and photos page generated by PHP.
2002-03-17 http://www.tomoakley.net/ Cascading Style Sheets used for all formatting, allowing pages to be written in HTML4.01 Strict.
2002-01-28 http://www.tomoakley.net/ SSI used to generate navigation panels, thus allowing frames to be removed.
2002-01-10 http://www.tomoakley.net/ Frames used to generate an index to the photos on tomoakley.net. Pages updated to HTML4.01
2001-12-23 http://www.tomoakley.net/ Pages updated to HTML4.0 in a drive to make them standards-compliant and therefore hopefully more accessible and browser-independent.
2001-04-10 http://www.tomoakley.net/ tomoakley.net started on Fasthosts, written in poor HTML.
2000-07-01 http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~oakley/ Harvard website closed on leaving University.
1999-09-15 http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~oakley/ Tom Oakley's homepage moved to Harvard's domain on arrival as a special student there. Quick links to Harvard resources added.
1996-12-01 http://www2.eng.cam.ac.uk/~95tao/cv.html CV posted.
1996-08-01 http://www2.eng.cam.ac.uk/~95tao/photos.html
http://www2.eng.cam.ac.uk/~95tao/contact.html
Snowboarding photos and contact details added.
1996-06-01 http://www2.eng.cam.ac.uk/~95tao/ Tom Oakley's first homepage posted.