BellaBuzz is now live-ish. As in, I think it works OK :3

Tada! I’m not dead :D Indeed not, I’m afraid. Simply distracted by my new home. Karl and I received the keys — and met the landlord, thoroughly nice chappie — on Friday. We’ve been cleaning, sweeping, decorating and generally ogling. I am bloody knackered, my arms are about ready to drop off, and I’ve not… read full entry »

BellaBuzz, my Wak’s Ask & Answer replacement script, is now online for open testing. The point of this release is to get feedback on ease of use and installation (and of course any bugs/etc) ready for the final release which will go on the BellaBuzz page. Please bear in mind that, should you choose to… read full entry »

I’ve had to restart this about 4 times now, because each time I decide to finish off, I get half way and somehow lose the file. I don’t know about l33t PHP Ninja; recently I’ve been l33t file loser. Anyway, quick recap: in Part Two of the PHP Beginners Guide I briefly covered the basic… read full entry »

Amelie, her partner, and Katy came for a little “wii party” yesterday, as a belated birthday celebration. The wii part was fun, and Amelie bought me Super Mario Galaxy which was totally uber (and mucho unexpected!) However, the part of the evening that got me most fired up was not plungering rabbids in Rayman, or… read full entry »

I get a lot of people sending me e-mails, or using my Q&A thing to ask me how I did my dynamic/changing sidebars on the site. I think people over-complicate it and assume it’s a magic PHP thing when really, it’s not. Now, you have to bear in mind I don’t use WordPress and my… read full entry »

…is my health. My health, damnit! I’ve been holed up in bed pretty much non-stop since Saturday because somebody infected me with a bloody cold. What is it with the stream of shit I’ve been hit with this past week or so? Food poisoning (or stomach bug, whatever), then my period [shudder] and now this…. read full entry »

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 »

Update 31st July 2012: Welcome, new visitors from The Register, Information Age, etc. If you like this post, you may also like my related posts on security. I am a PHP web dev with an interest in scripting, security (XSS, SQL injection etc) and WordPress. If you’d like to work with me, get in touch…. read full entry »