Performance Considerations

When integrating a shopping cart into a web site you obviously need to switch to an SSL environment before asking for any payment details, and you want the SSL site to look as nice as the main...

One of the Projects I've been working on quite a bit lately has me working with Faceboxes, and I really think they are great! One of the latest uses I have found for them is to replace the ugly...

When I started my Information Processing and Technology (IPT) subject in Year 11 at school way back in 1991 one of the first concepts that the teacher, Mr Whitehouse, impressed upon us was to...

Late last year we developed a mini site for the Ireckon Facebook fan page (go on become a fan, you know you want to), this is the first time I have worked with FBML, and while at first to looks...

Over the past month or so I have been working on a new web site which has a lot of content, some of it freely available and some of it for members only. One of the specifications I received early...

I have come to the conclusion that the more technology allows you to do, the more you are going to expect from it. The New York City Marathon was run last night our time, I have a mate who is over...

The Internet is growing rapidly, and developers all around the world are churning out new web applications at an amazing pace. While functionality and eye candy are often given top priority,...

A couple of months ago my circumstances changed and I was lucky enough to work for a flexible boss who allowed me to change from full-time work to part-time. As part of this arrangement I now work...

Subtitled: If you're not having fun, you're doing it wrong.  

For a while now I have been questioning my role and responsibilities and wants in my role as a programmer. I've had some experiences...

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...

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...

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...

My last blog entry was an attempt to describe a few of the technologies that enable we simple humans to work with and use the Internet and WWW. This time I will attempt to describe a few more...

So, you know about the web and use it frequently... but you're interested in knowing more about how it all works. Where do you begin?

Well, there is a multitude of different technologies, all...

I find that I am both fluent in English, and Geeky Technical. I can swing both ways and talk fluently to the technically abled. But I also have the ability to speak non-technically to those...

My lecturers were always harping on about coding standards and using comments in my code while I was at university. I usually went back after the fact and added comments for just about every line...

Lately we have been doing a lot of internal development to help improve our internal processes. One of the joys of working internally is you get to think outside the square and do things that you...