Anything and everything vaguely internet related. Blogging, industry, social media: if you can find it online, I've talked about it in here.
Karl and I were talking in the car today about the progression of Windows, the upcoming service pack 3 for XP and the extortionate prices charged for the likes of Microsoft Office. This of course got me started on the benefit of free software, although I don’t know who I was preaching to because Karl… read full entry »
I was going to announce this yesterday but the idea of letting off some steam about plain text passwords was much more appealing and so I didn’t. I think that says a lot about me as a person actually, how sad. Anyway, I’ve put in a lot of work during the evenings of this week… read full entry »
Update 31st July 2012: Welcome, new visitors from The Register, Information Age, etc. If you like this post, you may also like my related posts on security. I am a PHP web dev with an interest in scripting, security (XSS, SQL injection etc) and WordPress. If you’d like to work with me, get in touch…. read full entry »
Some chick called “Safire” has republished my Safe Dynamic Includes snippet on her tutorial site. (Fingers in mouth gagging here; I thought people had stopped creating these lame tutorial sites.) Alongside the code is the advice that, in normal dynamic includes “it’s just the x= that makes it unsafe“, and swapping this letter for a… read full entry »
SEO, or ‘Search Engine Optimisation’, is the process of altering your pages to maximise the chance of being listed in a search engine. Based on the knowledge that you must mention a word to begin ranking for it, logic dictates that further mentions of the same word can only increase your SE ranking. (Those of… read full entry »
It seems my post on ‘web naughties’ — and my secret love for justified text — provoked more thought and opinion than I expected. It seems that quite a few people have a view on the subject, be it positive or negative. Aisling posted an interesting comment using her experience with the CNIB as reasoning… read full entry »
Nearly 3 years ago, Google released their plans to implement the rel attribute value nofollow in an attempt to combat spam on weblogs and other sites. Almost straight away, I posted my thoughts and went about hacking WordPress — which was my CMS of choice at the time — to remove any occurrence of the… read full entry »
No, I’m not talking about pr0n, but web design habits that fly in the face of accessibility, good design or just plain old common sense. I have a secret love for quite a few of these ‘naughties’ and while I probably won’t ever use/go back to them myself, I smile a secret smile when I… read full entry »
While doing some random surfing, in between mocking up a potential new disaster (layout) in Photoshop, and whilst avoiding the washing up/ignoring the oven (oh shit my flat is on fire) I found a post at codinghorror.com about Creating User Friendly 404s. The post is not terribly old and does include some relevant and interesting… read full entry »
As a great many of you were confused by my post on Google’s PageRank update late last month I thought I’d put together a very basic guide on what it is, and what it can mean for you. If I get chance I might even write a follow-up on how to improve yours (got to… read full entry »