During the night a website I had been working on for a friend needed some hefty changes to the database, involving optimisation, security-related bug fixes and integration with new scripts. The problem was that this was early in the morning, coming up to the peak time that users would want to use the websites’ services. [...]

When browsing the Internet today we’re accustomed to seeing the good ol’ “http://www” bit on the left side of our URL’s. However, it seems that a growing number of websites have decided that this is not good enough and have created rewrite rules to strip the “www” off of all their addresses, effectively turning http://www.example.com [...]

After browsing LinkedIn for a while to get the feel of the website and what it exactly offers I’ve noticed that a number of Web Designers have put “experienced in Web 2.0″ in their profiles/CV’s. For me, this is one of the worst moves you can make when adding things to any document detailing the [...]

If you’re a regular reader of this Blog (i.e. if you’re the author) you’ll know that I hate buzzwords and hype on the Internet. I’ve touched over the subject of Search Engine Optimisation a number of times, claiming it to not be the beginning and end of promotion on the Internet, and now I am [...]

“I’m very flattered that you’d want to ask me this. I do like you, but not in the way you were hoping for. I’m sorry.”
Somewhere in time you have said this to a web page. Despite being extremely helpful there are times when a web page wants more than a working relationship with you, and [...]

The whole Open Source movement has really kicked off around the world, with millions of websites currently running versions of WordPress, phpBB and other software. Not only this, but Open Source Software has enriched our lives with its free usage and superb functionality. Whilst commercial software will always exist and be a viable solution there [...]

Like many other good web designers/developers I take reasonable care in making sure that my code works in all browsers, as well as being valid to W3C standards. The barriers to Web Design are very low and any web page can be thrown on the Internet, regardless of what is in it or how good [...]

I have been programming for about six years now, working with languages like Visual Basic, C, C++, C#, Prolog, and Java, not to mention all the scripting languages I’ve toyed around with! I like to think that my mash-up of programming knowledge only helps me with the end goal of programming, and that’s to reach [...]

The whole Web 2.0 thing has annoyed me endlessly for a while now. Whilst there have been some fantastic websites built over the past few years self-claimed entrepreneurs have tried to cash in on this by releasing as many websites they can without vowels in their names. Clone websites of YouTube and Digg appear every [...]

There is an age-old question when it comes to attending an interview for a programmer/developer post at any company, and it is:
“What do I bring with me?”
I had the pleasure of being asked this the other day by a friend of a friend. He was about to graduate Computer Science and was shopping around for [...]