I’m currently doing some fantastically exciting (!) web work for a large national company who have the pleasure of using mssql – poor people.

Mssql is like some horrible, deformed half cousin of MySQL. It doesn’t have lots of useful features like LIMIT and so on.

But one of the most annoying is the lack of [...]

The BBC often report some good stuff on technology and web sites. As web design is my line of ‘work’, what follows is some comment on a bunch of reports I’ve been meaning to post for a while now.

“According to research from Nielsen/NetRatings, people are buying cutting-edge technology but often don’t understand the terms [...]

The ‘enhanced user interface’ or the ‘advanced functionality capabilities’ make it a tough choice!

I laughed so hard I ruptured my gusset!

Isn’t it sweet to know their are some people still innocent enough to put this on their websites – bless them!

Get your fix over at Cooper World.net.

For me as a someone who uses the internet everyday at home and work, and has a lot of CD’s and DVD’s these subjects are very close to my heart. I have always felt it is fantastically important to have an open medium for communicating and distributing information. The internet has given the [...]

Okay, this has been covered a lot but I find it very handy so maybe it will help someone…

Did you know you can change many PHP settings through .htaccess files?

Example
When you’re trying to get your pages to validate but the dratted ampersands in links foul it up – even though you’ve correctly escaped them in [...]

Don’t you love it when some company or other rolls their shiny new website based on some big web content management app or other, but then doesn’t get anyone competent to sort out the details.

Thanks to napster, the best music service on the planet, no, really heh! Sundance festival – it’s all very [...]