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Why WordPress

On March 19, 2012 By

Over the years, my website has gone through many iterations, and variations (and one or two domain changes).  Usually I’ve had a website running on the “latest thing”, which has been through variations of everything from static and pseudo-static sites, to my own framework, other frameworks, and mainstream CMS systems like Drupal.

The problem with [...]

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PC-Fit2 Web Server

On March 17, 2012 By

I’m now running a test web server on a PC-Fit2 which is the coolest little PC.  It’s got the same footprint as a coffee mug coaster, and is just a couple of centimetres high.

On it, I’m using Ubuntu server with Apache2 and Webmin.  Webmin also takes a lot of the effort out [...]

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NetBeans on Ubuntu

On October 11, 2011 By

I’ve been using NetBeans 6.9.1 which was the latest PHP version that I’d found, but also found that it wasn’t automatically updating.  I also tried using the standard package install, but had the same issues (a reported proxy error).  It turns out that the error is related to the version of Java SDK that NetBeans [...]

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My LAMP Server using VirtualBox

On October 9, 2011 By

I’m working on a VirtualBox image for a LAMP server.  There are a few good reasons to use a virtualised LAMP server:

Easy to back-up – you essentially only have a few files to back-up, rather than mirroring thousands of them. The footprint of the backup can also be kept small as you only need [...]

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Beauty in simplicity – CSS

On August 10, 2011 By

I haven’t always worked with CSS, as much of my work is involved with coding.  However I love playing with CSS, and I love that in its purest sense it’s so very elegant and powerful.  I’ve always been of the philosophy that you should be able to take one basic html structure, and apply virtually [...]

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Successful web application design

On July 14, 2011 By

As an application developer I sometimes get a little frustrated with some attitudes towards functionality.  There is all too often too much temptation to throw in as many different aspects and functions to a design rather than to focus on streamlining the user experience for the core of what you’re developing.

As an example, you [...]

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Three really handy websites for web developing

On July 6, 2011 By

There are a few websites that I find useful.

Database designer, using Google Apps.  Allows you to build a database diagram and output it in code that you can use to directly create your MySQL database.  There are more complete or easier apps to use, but it’s pretty cool when you can use something like [...]

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Blind SQL injection

On June 20, 2011 By

Security is something that’s all too often ignored, and while recent events have helped highlight how vulnerable and insecure we are, but I still see very lax attitudes towards security.  Most disturbing of all seems a complete lack of interest in secure and unique passwords, and I know that almost all of us are guilty [...]

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