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August 2008

What you want verses what you ask for.

Posted by: Vanessa on 21 Aug 2008 @ 11:03 pm Category: Programming and Coding for the Web

One of the most frustrating parts of programming is misinterpretation. When we get asked to create software for clients the briefs can be very small and the expectations can be very large.

It is hard to see from a technical point of view sometimes what the client is actually asking, as personally, having done much analysis and building of product, I start to see it built as it is being...


Dom's 3 Stage Budget Campaign

Posted by: Dominique on 15 Aug 2008 @ 8:32 am Category: The Wonderous Wide Web

What do Clinton, Obama, Rudd and Howard have in common (apart from the obvious – They are political figures)? They all chose to use the internet as a campaign marketing scheme and had great success in doing so.

Why did they have great success? Well that's simple... some bright-minded crony decided to put them on the trendy track of social networking. Well actually, how Obama came about...


Does your website do PDF?

Posted by: Mark on 14 Aug 2008 @ 2:44 pm Category: Programming and Coding for the Web

A lot of website owners can answer "Yes" to this question. But how far does their PDF integration go? Do they only have downloadable but static PDF documents or does their website generate PDF files on the fly with dynamic data in it?

Where branding becomes more and more important each day, people still get ugly looking plain text e-mails containing their confirmation order or invoice from...


The elusive DIV

Posted by: David on 12 Aug 2008 @ 5:32 pm Category: Web Design

Well this will be my first blog post with Ireckon. I’ve been pondering on what would be my most insightful topic as a web designer in my first few weeks at Ireckon.

After some thought, the conclusion was the DIV tag.

Famed for revolutionising web design by making the good ol' table layout method redundant. But it is not without its woes.

Divs are a way to contain information, and style...


Andy's New Toy: PHP Taint Checking

Posted by: Andrew on 8 Aug 2008 @ 8:59 am Category: Programming and Coding for the Web

To help pickup possible SQL Injection issues (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sql_injection) in our PHP code I've been messing about with a modified version of PHP that supplies taint checking.

If you're unfamiliar with taint checking you can check some pages like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taint_checking or http://perldoc.perl.org/perlsec.html.
In short - it is a way to have PHP...


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