Archive for the ‘Web’ Category

 

Call to Arms!

August 13th, 2010

I never thought I’d type this entry. My previous website portfolio has included code to apply hacks and fixes for IE6, 7 and 8. While I’m on the topic, this is good advice for all you budding (or some experienced) web developers out there. Why do I only apply fixes to 6, 7, and 8? [...]

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Domain Sale

August 1st, 2010

A while ago I had an idea. Since that time, it’s been pushed further and further back as more important projects have started. Finally, I realise I’m never going to develop the idea, and it’s time to let go and sell the domains. I’ve created a little sedo account and popped two domains up: localtakeawaymenu.co.uk [...]

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Centered LI in UL without Float

June 7th, 2010

It’s so simple. You want to use UL elements for your menus. You want to style them with CSS. You want all the LI items centered. Until now I’ve been using “float: left;”, which then leaves you to manually center the whole UL with specific margins. I’ve developed a simple CMS system which generates all the [...]

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Apple HTML5

June 5th, 2010

Yes, two posts in one day! Apple have released a cutting edge HTML5 demonstration site, rejoice! It’s at http://www.apple.com/html5/ It demonstrates a number of features provided by CSS3, Javascript and a couple of HTML5. A couple of HTML5. It’s viewable in all HTML5 compatible browsers, as long as your HTML5 compatible browser is Apple Safari. Wait… [...]

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H.264

May 3rd, 2010

I’ve taken some time to calm down after recent statements by Apple and Microsoft regarding their choice of HTML5 codecs. I’ve tried to consider all sides, and yes, I can see the (probably FUD based) uncertain patent landscape with Ogg (Theora, Vorbis). I don’t think this is the only reason for it. Lets back up [...]

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Adobe screw-up leaves Flash flaw unpatched for 16 months

February 10th, 2010

I’m an avid reader of ZDNet for my technology news, and today came across Adobe screw-up leaves Flash flaw unpatched for 16 months. I’ve never been a fan of Flash, I see it as some kind of blight on the internet. When I was a Windows network administrator, I often had to tell users to shut [...]

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Spam

February 7th, 2010

One thing that always amuses me about electronic communication in general, is the amount of spam one can get. I check this blog regularly to clean out the dozens of spam comments I get daily. Still, I suppose I should be pleased. Most of them aren’t “performance pills”. Hey, bot. Yes you! This is moderated. [...]

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PHP 5

October 29th, 2009

I hear Geocities has gone forever. Well, it’s hardly surprising, but it is a little sad. I remember signing up for one of their quaintly named sites all those years ago. Still, I went investigating and found Yahoo Web Hosting! (I feel everything with Yahoo! needs exclaiming, it is like some kind of marketing ploy [...]

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PHP, JS and CSS Compression

July 26th, 2009

I wasn’t feeling very well today, so I thought I’d do something more light-hearted and fun. Yes, that’s right! I wrote a website compression utility! Basically, you do “php sitecompress.php mywebsitefolder” and it goes through all the .php, .html, .htm, .js and .css files. Javascript and CSS (inline and external – yes I said inline. [...]

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Javascript Object setTimeout

July 19th, 2009

So I’ve been developing a chat room entirely in Javascript and PHP using a lot of ajax. Aside from an eCard I made for friends and family last christmas, I’ve not written more than a few lines of javascript before. I find starting a large project is a good way to learn a language, so [...]

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