The new version of my book rating script — BellaBiblio — is now online. BellaBiblio now includes an Ajax searcher that integrates with Amazon Web Services, allowing you to enter a keyword and pull down information on your books. This integration is all thanks to the work of Mat, who integrated the Ajax and made… read full entry »

It seems almost ironic that just the other day I was ranting about Tesco’s seemingly mediocre approach to password security, and today we hear that Tesco online store ‘is infiltrated by insider card fraudster’. Customers shopping at Britain’s biggest Internet store — Tesco Direct — are feared to have had their card details stolen by… read full entry »

When I posted my somewhat whimsical entry “Not The X!” on Monday I was under the impression that teenybopper tutorial sites were becoming less common. I figured there was a new trend out, maybe these wannabe geeks had all gained new hobbies or something. Of course, this is the part where I admit grand naivety… 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 »

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 »

I’m 3 days away from my second ‘exam’/computer marked assessment and I can’t help but feel frustrated at the irrelevant nature of the questions. This course advocates accessibility, it has encouraged my fellow pupils to discuss all the things that make a good website… and yet the course material (the book that is sent out)… 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 »