Category: Web Development
Blush
Only just noticed (on a random trawl of the web) that the Guardian did an article about Sky box upgrading and mentioned my website . Yes, mine. Not anybody else’s. Mine. Makes ya proud, it does. Although I would like to point out that the “huge” 250 GB hard drive upgrade that they mention is, well, nothing. With Copy+ you can put [...]
Going Mobile
I mentioned the other day that I had “mobilised” this website, so it appears appropriately on, well, mobile phones. The plugin I used in this case is WordPress Mobile Plugin . However, it’s since occured to me that the ability to actually write entries on my mobile might be handy too (particularly as I now have my Bluetooth keyboard) – the aforementioned plugin [...]
The 10 Best Web Development Firefox Add-ons
I like these “Best” lists that you find on blogs, so I thought I should at least start contributing my own. And to begin with, my own list of swizzy Firefox add-ons that will help the humble developer. They’re all Firefox 3 compatible and they’re all free. In no particular order (other than, erm, alphabetical. [...]
Google logic
I use Googles Adsense for some of my websites to generate a little revenue. For reasons that are now lost on me, I signed up with a non-Google email address. I then tried to use my Google account later only for it to turned down because, well, I already had an Adsense account. All very [...]
PHP Speedy and Lightbox
I’ve talked before about the excellent PHP Speedy application – both a PHP script for your website or a WordPress plugin. However, as with all apps of this type, it doesn’t always “play ball” with everything. In this case, I use the Lightbox 2 plugin for WordPress and, well, PHP Speedy has a tendency to break it. So, having spoke [...]
Two things
I’ve learnt two things today. First of all, it’s possible to crash IE 6 via a single line of code… <style>*{position:relative}</style><table><input></table> It doesn’t crash Firefox, Opera, etc. For whatever reason, it causes a fatal error in mshtml.dll. The second thing I’ve learnt today, thanks to a throw-away line in a magazine, is that you can email a Wii console . The [...]
Coming Soon…
I’m in the process, at the moment, of some interesting changes to the BMTG site . Instead of each show/concert page being individually written (with a few calls to scripts to display photos, etc) I’m creating a totally automated page generation system – simply tell it the show name, call the generator script and you get a show [...]
Alternative Lightbox
In the past I’ve mentioned the Lightbox script that I use on the BMTG website and on this blog. This uses the Scriptaculous JavaScript library. Last night I stumbled across an alternative to Scriptaculous, named mootools . This is a lot more compact and they even allow you to compile your own version at the point of download, allowing you to limit [...]
Forum Posting
Sometime ago I added a modification to the Copy+ forums that would notify the administrator when a new post was added (allowing him to quickly remove any spam, as well as respond quickly to genuine questions). However, after some security upgrades by the site host, all emails seemed to stop working. This was because it wouldn’t allow mails to [...]
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Google in circles
Sorry to go on about Google, but I have another head-scratching query. I did search earlier for a post of mine.. Google found it, but also said: Did you mean to search for: http://www.artiss.co.uk/2008/03/website-performance Now I knew what would happen if I clicked on this. Sure enough: No results found for http://www.artiss.co.uk/2008/03/website-performance. So… so… why [...]
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