I’ve been building dynamic web sites for over ten years now, and one of the things which has bugged me enormously is the huge amount of repetitive code I have to write, especially for form handling (including validation) and access control. At least half of my coding time is spent on this sort of work, […]
Announcing… Pub Gateway!
Pub Gateway is now available for your viewing pleasure. A few things to note: The design is simple, because I’m not an artist and can’t create amazing logos. I’ll probably pay someone to come up with a decent design and logo at a later date. There are only a few pubs available as I haven’t […]
Thought for the day
Thought for the day (which probably wouldn’t get onto Radio 4): Any sane mail server logs the IP address of any remote server which connects to it and attempts to deliver spam. It’s possible to map an IP address to a physical location, with a reasonable degree of accuracy (if you pay for a good […]
UKUUG Spring conference
Three days of this week were taken up by the UKUUG Spring 2010 conference, which I seemed to volunteer to lead the organisation on once again (and for next year as well by the looks of it!). I’ve still not fully recovered, probably as a result of going down with a cold the morning after […]
Debt Relief Bill
Apparently I’m responsible for it not going through! 🙂
Pub site progress II
Work on my pub site is coming along faster than I had expected, slowed down only by my need to concentrate on my Open University course. So far I have all the data required to add a handful of pubs, though I still need to buy a new digital camera so that I can go […]
Computer books clear out
Continuing my general spring clean clear out, I have the following computer books (all in excellent condition) which I no longer need and are free to a good home: DHTML Utopia: Modern Web Design Using JavaScript & Dom (SitePoint) Professional Search Engine Optimization with PHP (Wrox) Texinfo (Free Software Foundation) SEO Warrior (O’Reilly) The Art […]
Free stuff giveaway clearout
I’m having an early spring clean at my flat in an attempt to free up space so that I can fit everything on my bookcase and see the floor for once. The following items are currently earmarked for good homes: Stargate SG-1 seasons 1-5 (boxed sets). Various Doctor Who videos, including Dalek and Cybermen boxed […]
Pub site progress
Thanks to Kirk, I now have a rough idea of the equipment I need to work on my pub site—in short it seems that buying a new digital camera and using my existing GPS logger and then syncronising the two will suffice. I’ve also registered the relevant domains (one with a short URL for redirects) […]
GPS, camera and notebook gadget help
For one of the sites I’m going to be working on I need a gadget which can perform the following tasks: Take photos. Log the GPS coordinates of the photo automatically, either as part of the meta-data associated with the photo or in a separate file. Make notes about the photo, e.g. ‘this is the […]