Every web developer, and designer, knows the problems when trying to make one of their creations compatible with IE6. If it’s not the box model anomalies, it’s something to do with the aged JavaScript engine or the lack of modern CSS support. Trying to make something compatible, and often just workable, in IE6 is a [...]
Rather than do what I normally do, which is make a large post on a specific topic, I thought just to break the mould a bit and try something different I would make a post that would go through all the recent things I’ve been doing, and what I think I’ll be coming up against [...]
This is hopefully the first in a few posts that will describe and explain a quick and easy method to get something up and running using PHP. This tutorial will talk through a class I wrote extremely quickly that can pull tweets using Twitter’s REST API from both protected and public accounts, and that will [...]
This is a problem I seemed to come up against a lot when running my simple little servers: where does all the bandwidth go, and what slows the whole network down? Well rather than continuing to whinge, I looked around, and found this tool: iftop (a very clever hybrid name of top and ifconfig), which [...]
A while ago, I realised how difficult it can be in PHP to work with multi-dimensional arrays, especially sorting and converting them. A lot of PHP’s built-in array functions like array_unique, ksort, etc. do not work with multi-dimensional arrays, and leave it up to the developer to provide the functionality. I ended up making a [...]
I got thinking today about this a bit, so I thought I’d share some opinions on it. Think about it, what tools do you use everyday for your web development job that you just simply couldn’t live without and why? Why do you use one tool instead of another? Here are my thoughts on some [...]
