Jem – UK blogger

We decided to name the kitty “Hex”, for various reasons…

Because you can never know too much, and it’s about time I wrote a follow-up to my PHP Script Checklist article. 1. Never include sensitive data in a .inc When I started my current job, one of the first things I did was move all of the database connection details (yes, that includes passwords) from… read full entry »

As someone who has ‘invested’ money into a range of t-shirts with a variety of slogans, I was somewhat disturbed to read this today: A man spotted wearing a T-shirt bearing an “offensive” slogan in a city centre has been warned he risks an £80 fine if he is caught again. […] The slogan on… read full entry »

There’s a new addition to our little family… meet the as-of-yet unnamed (unless you count Karl calling him “Mofo”) sleeping ball of fur (AKA my new kitten): He’s noisy, and has a habit of licking everything, but is the cutest kitten in the whole damned world. Says me, right.

Yes, that’s right, I am confessing to abandoning my blog (amongst other things, like Snark). This past fortnight I’ve been spending every minute of free time working with Bubs to re-develop the quilting bee. There’s so many new features and functionality I’m not sure how we have managed to do it all! Those of you… read full entry »

What’s the strangest thing you’ve seen while walking/driving down the road? See, being a place of interest my little village gets a lot of weirdos and other fascinating visitors… but driving home after feeding the guinea pig last night I certainly didn’t expect to see an armoured personnel carrier with tank-style tracks heading in my… read full entry »

Usually if I don’t have the time to review a script I advise people to Google for security issues. Except, with the recent problem surrounding the false reports of a login issue with my scripts, it’s becoming more and more apparent that we can’t rely on only Google. Amongst good advice (of which there is… read full entry »

I give up; I’m caving in because I don’t understand. What’s with the sudden surge of people relying on their age as a get-out clause for anything and everything that they see fit? If it’s not teenagers and young adults blaming their stupidity on age (“I’m only 15, I couldn’t possible know HTML properly!”) it’s… read full entry »

Back when the reviewing website ReviewMe first came out I debated with myself whether reviewing for these guys was any different to blogstitution — i.e. pay per posts and sites of that ilk. I never did make my mind up but decided that I didn’t care because I wasn’t going to take part anyway. However,… read full entry »

It has come to my attention that as the Internet fills with many, many young children, the e-tard quota rapidly increases. If you find somebody afflicted with this common problem, you’ll notice that they’re probably aged 12-15, they use 8 different colours to highlight their text (because just “bold” is obviously not enough) and assume… read full entry »