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 »

I’ve had a totally shit day where nothing seemed to go right, nobody seemed to be able to help and I’ve got to get a list of things to get done by the end of tomorrow that I’ll probably not have time to do… and yet there’s nothing like coming home, saying hello to the… read full entry »

..the w3schools website is NOT made by the W3C people? I only learnt this today. I feel defrauded :(

It is almost predictable that I’d give my next Pants Award to Lana of so-juicy.net. I’d already briefly touched upon the fact that she is redistributing my skinning code from tutorialtastic without permission (that means stealing, boys and girls) except with all the stuff going on at the moment I didn’t have time to follow… read full entry »

I just wanted to send out some e-thanks to a few people who’ve helped me remove some of the false exploit “warnings” over the course of the past couple of weeks.. Firstly, Fyodor of insecure.org/seclists.org who removed one of the listings from his websites. Mega thanks to str0ke of milw0rm fame (seriously, I’ve been using… read full entry »

I am afraid I have to interupt the “aww”s of yesterday’s post with something a little more serious. On the 19th August I found myself at minuit-soleil.net. I’m not entirely sure how I got there, but searching for potential Pants Award material I dived straight for the Visitor section, because there’s always bound to be… read full entry »

You know, if I see the words “I love your CSS!” once more, I think I’m going to headbutt my keyboard out of frustration. (At least then I’d be justified in buying a new laptop, right?) Seriously, it’s become an epidemic amongst those who have a vague grasp on the idea that tables for layout… read full entry »

Back when I first heard of XHTML it seemed like a brilliant idea. Here was a type of mark-up with rules, and rules mean an excuse to be my normal perfectionist self. It wasn’t long before I’d converted all 200+ pages of my website to this beautiful, lower-case, tidy syntax and was getting the green… read full entry »

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 »

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 »