I’ve been keeping half an eye on swype for a while now, but struggled to get it working satisfactorily on the nexus when I tried it before. As this post is being typed entirely on swype on my phone we’ll soon see if this has changed.
Swype, for those who don’t know, is a clever software [...]
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Swype on nexus one
Blueprint CSS Framework
Stumbled across the Blueprint CSS framework the other day and have to say that I love the concept. I think we’ll be trying this out at work as a means to add some standardisation to CSS and to reduce the repetition of common tasks. The concept seems to sit well with out current development ethos, [...]
A New PHP Development Environment
We’ve been threatening to overhaul our entire PHP development environment for some time, but it has always been something we have managed to put off for as long as possible. With Dreamweaver lagging further and further behind our requirements and the projects that we are dealing with at work getting more complex we have finally [...]
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Adwords Phising
Haven’t blogged in an age, but thought that this was worth “putting out there” in case it catches anyone else. Some scrote is sending out millions of Adwords phishing emails at the moment, trying to con publishers in to giving out their account details. I’ve received 2 dozen copies of this to various accounts today [...]
PHP IDEs - PHPed
Ho hum. I had this morning set aside to get stuck in to my look at PHP IDEs and I have to say that it hasn’t been the greatest success so far.
I roped in Tim at work to help me do some of the comparison and we spend a couple of hours trawling the IDE [...]
Paddle Round The Pier
I had a couple of days booked off work either side of this weekend, and having decided not to risk storms and flooding on our planned camping trip was at a bit of a loose end for something unconstructive to do. Nosing around various “what’s on” type sites, we stumbled across Paddle Round The Pier, [...]
Surely Wordpress isn’t this shit.
OK, admittedly I’m only 2 days in to re-assessing Wordpress (plus a painful week of porting - thank the bigbang that I never posted more in the past), but I am seriously struggling to stay open minded. Wordpress is undoubtedly the industry leader in blogging packages, and I am determined to work out why, but [...]
SPV e650 : Early Impressions
I’ve never really felt the need too continually swap my mobile phone for the latest and greatest model, but when the navigation buttons on my old D500 finally packed up, I realised that it was time for an upgrade. Checking my Orange account online I was pretty surprised to see that they were offering me [...]
PHP IDEs
One of the motivating factors of blowing the dust off my old blog is that I’m about to start investigating some possible changes to the way we develop websites at work. This is going to involve looking at quite a few solutions and I thought it might be interesting to get some thoughts on these [...]
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Goodbye custom blog… hello Wordpress
In order to get this site up and running again I decided to scrap the custom blog/CMS system and just go with an off-the-shelf package. It would have been nice to have stuck it out with the bespoke system, but it was clear that I had time to either work on the system OR write [...]
