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. [...]

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 [...]