Experiment
April 10th, 2011
I was discussing how quickly Google can pick up some new sites with someone earlier, and I recall it seeing these new blog posts very quickly. This is a test blog post to check. I’ll post the time taken as a comment. Googlewhack: jeyahnam
Lizamoon: Is every other developer stupid?
April 1st, 2011
There’s been a lot of news today about an “SQL Injection Attack” that’s affected over half a million websites. Oh no! First of all, despite comments to the contrary, I’m going to sit here and say: It’s XSS not SQL. The only evidence I’ve seen so far to contradict me is “it was stored in [...]
Internet Explorer 9
March 15th, 2011
I remember when I was in college. We were all using Netscape Navigator. It was around the time Microsoft realised “Whoops, we screwed up, the internet is a big deal after all” and turned around their huge behemoth to focus on Internet Explorer 3/4. There was a great divide in the friendships then: Some loved [...]
Google Ownership
January 20th, 2011
So, I hear Larry Page has taken over management of Google from Eric Schmidt. I can only assume Sergey Brin can see what I see. In my view, Google is an idealistic company. Page and Brin can see what’s good for humanity, in a vaguely socialist way, and want to push ahead with it. Schmidt [...]
EU vs Google: Anti-Trust Probe
November 30th, 2010
This post relates to the article found at the BBC website, and doubtlessly thousands of other places. I openly admit, I fall into the Pro-Google group. I believe Brin & Page do ultimately have our best interests at heart, if they are a little naive sometimes. I use Google for search, I use iGoogle for [...]
Browser Versions
October 23rd, 2010
Every couple of months, I have a look at StatCounter’s Global Stats page, it’s probably one of the most balanced internet usage statistics services in the world, as their counter widgets are installed on a wide variety of websites. Most statistics services are based on access to specific servers, like the W3C’s one. I have [...]
Crackers
October 13th, 2010
Let me define a few terms in the IT world: Hackers: Used to be known as the seedy, dodgy guys in films who break PCs. Nowadays hackers are the elite programmers who can turn Lead into Gold and such. Crackers: Always considered “bad”, and now taken on the original definition of hacker. Crackers break things [...]
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? [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]