A lot of buzz usually surrounds a new Blog post by 37signals. As far as applications on the Internet go these guys are the kings of small, usable applications that do exactly what you want of them. Their Blog often keeps things in the same mindset; breaking old software engineering and management practices in favour [...]

Another apology is in order. I have neglected this Blog for some time since starting my new job, and as I am working a solid 6 days a week at around 10 hours a day with one day left to spend with my family/girlfriend I have become somewhat occupied with work. Hopefully when I go [...]

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 [...]