Over recent months, I’ve heard a lot from security experts and bloggers alike about spyware websites distributing their wares by way of fake screens that make users think they’re looking at errors and virus reports on their desktop. It’s an easy way to fool the less savvy into downloading malicious files, and all by convincing… read full entry »

I can’t wait to see what the bees come up with for the Halloween activity — it’s always the best part of October.

Ooh, looky here! A shiny new layout with coolies rounded corners. How web 2.0 am I, eh? :D In all truth, it’s amazing what not having a website can do to you. It makes you productive. Funny that. I coded, I designed, I even washed the dishes that had been sat on the side since… read full entry »

Lookie, I’m home. It’s good to be back. It’s almost sad how dependant one becomes on their e-mail and web space. I can go on holiday and not care, but the second it is deprived from me through no choice of my own, I feel exploited :( Just to give you a rough indication of… read full entry »

Site5 sent Karl and I a warning mail the other day notifying us of a pending server move, part of the ongoing migration to The Planet datacenter located in Dallas, Texas. I was under the impression that we would be notified directly before this was going to happen, however… given that tutorialtastic has fallen off… read full entry »

Jessica popped up in my referrals this week because she’s going to start reviewing, and several of her visitors nominated me. I quite look forward to the prospect; it’s hard to get a decent review these days. Anyway, it got me thinking about my reviewing and I couldn’t believe that my last (unrequested) review was… read full entry »

Back in Part Four of the Beginner’s Guide to PHP, we covered the basics of arrays, and the foreach construct which is used to iterate over arrays. Today, you get to learn about for(), woot for you. According to the PHP manual, for() loops are the most complex in PHP, so I’m hoping I can… read full entry »

When you tell the world that you have “7 years of experience in the field“, it helps if you show that so-called experience off. And no, blurring a few dodgy photographs so that the subject looks like they’re being melted under a 500W halogen lamp does not count as experience in the field. Only in… read full entry »

I’m bloghopping; visiting a blog, reading for a while, then moving on to the next by way of the links/exits page. Except, every single click in the past half an hour has landed me on a site with text smaller than 9px. Crazy fools think I’ve got magnifying eyes or something?!

Several of you keep pestering me on how I do my ‘related posts’ thing in the sidebar. You’re nosy buggers, I’ll give you that. Anyway, here comes the confession part: they’re not really “related” posts at all. In fact, the only thing that they each have in common is that they’re in the same category…. read full entry »