If you have a website that allows user comments, reviews or similar features, you will no doubt have been subjected to spammers at some point in time.
More so if your website is mature and well indexed in the search engines.
Im talking about these people who constantly add spam comments to blogs, spam product reviews and [...]

Nowadays hosting and bandwidth charges are at an all time low. That said, with most people on shared hosting plans, sometimes your host can get a bit bothered if your website gets a ton of traffic in a short space of time.
When designing websites for clients, most of the time your client will want the [...]

I’ve been using Analytics since it started really and have only just tested the email report feature.
Previously I had logged in every morning to eagerly check my various website’s stats. Now, after setting up the simple email reports feature, I have an email with a pdf attachment waiting for me each morning in my inbox.
Included [...]

Apparently, Elton John has said that the only way to stop pirated music etc is to turn off the internet! via
Elton Said “There’s too much technology available and it’s starving musical creativity”. He said it would be an interesting experiment to switch off the internet for 5 years to see what sort of art is [...]

One of the great RSS feeds that I subscribe to is Smashing Magazine. They list great resources for designers etc and here is a nice selection of free fonts.

I use Google Reader as my RSS reader but today something strange has happened. When I log in to check for new items I get 5 new items on the list:

But when I click on the “All Items” link to view them all I get told there are no new items:

Has anyone else had this? [...]

You know the situation. You’re working on a project and when testing it you get an unexpected result or error message. That happens to me all the time but one such time last week took me ages to figure out what was going on.
I was using a simple sql statement to select records from a [...]

Yesterday, I was working on my CRM application. To cut a long story short I have upgraded the whole system, added new features and made the whole user experience better.
One of the things I was doing was adding AJAX functionality to perform certain tasks on pages without having to reload the page each time.
Now, I’ll [...]

An article over at Devlounge puts together some interesting arguments with regards to posting full or partial RSS feeds on your blog.
I have had partial feeds on this blog since it started last year, but in the interests of my readers, I am going to switch to full feeds and see how it goes.
It is [...]

Happy New Year to all my readers. If you hadn’t noticed, I’ve been away for a couple of weeks.
Everything will get back to normal in the next few days where I will be posting regular posts again.