Jem's field notes

I’ve come to the conclusion that I don’t like these people who use their blogs as a sleazy way to generate income — because I don’t understand them. I like to blog to rid myself of anxieties and pressure, for my own entertainment and ultimately because I have nothing better to do with my time…. read full entry »

For those who use BellaBook, there’s a new version out. If you’re using versions 3.1 or 3.2, you can download the new version, delete the blank text files in the new one, customise the config.php file to match your current preferences and upload the new admin.php, sign.php and other PHP files over the top of… read full entry »

I don’t know how many of you noticed that tutorialtastic recently gained authors — I gave three trusted friends access so they can publish their own tutorials should they want to. They’re lazy gits though so it might never happen. :p Anyway, it’s part of new things I want to do with tutorialtastic… I want… read full entry »

I have decided to take a step back from helping people out for a while. By that, I mean I won’t be answering half of the e-mails that come into my inbox daily — it’s getting to the point where the majority of my incoming mail is someone who can’t get their <table> to sit… read full entry »

As promised on Friday last week, BellaBuffs is live. Admittedly, some of you may have been expecting it three days ago because I cocked up the date at first, but there we go. For those who’ve been living on the moon recently, BellaBuffs is my new flat-file fanlisting management script. Designed for single fanlistings (like… read full entry »

I’ve released part one of what I hope will be a series of PHP security articles — a PHP Script Checklist for those developing or looking to develop their own scripts. If you have any thoughts on PHP security problems that you’d like to be covered in part 2, or you’re an ‘expert’ and want… read full entry »

OUTSPOKEN-kate.com is a typical teenage personal website. Small text — barely different in colour from the background, mangled iframes given extreme heights to try and prevent extra scrollbars, indistinguishable links and the insane assumption that being able to scrape together a website gives you the right and/or ability to publish shitty tutorials. Before we even… read full entry »

I really hate this feeling of wanting to learn a new language (I’m not talking French or German here, btw) and not knowing where to start. I find that the only way I can get my head around learning something is if I need to learn it. When I started with PHP I needed to… read full entry »

..my WordPress ‘eyes’, that is. I uploaded some new free smilies (emoticons) to my free smilies page yesterday, which are of course totally awesome and completely free (although charging 50 pence ($1) per smiley is a tempting idea I don’t think it’d work out). They’re named the same as the normal WP ones so can… read full entry »

Having had my root canal done on Monday to try and fix my dodgy tooth, I’ve been sticking to soft foods all week to give it chance to settle properly. Decidedly hungry I got the bag of frozen chips out the freezer, and happened upon some onion rings too. I stuck the chips in the… read full entry »