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, [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Dreamweaver impending nightmare
I’ve been a fan of Dreamweaver, the web development app from Macromedia, since I first picked up a license for version 1.2 many moons back. Whilst it is far from perfect (a crappy FTP engine and laughable CSS support spring immediately to mind) it is still leaps and bounds ahead of competing packages.
Like many fans [...]
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery
… and the lifeblood of intellectual property lawsuits.
I saw this post on Freelancer.com last night and wasn’t quite sure whether we should be flattered, indignant or just plain amused.
Here’s the salient part of the post:
I want a clone website of www.mypropertyforsale.co.uk with all the funtionallity that it has but with a worldwide search and the [...]
Hack Attempt
Spotted an interesting hack attempt on a couple of my sites today.
Seems that someone is testing contact forms to see if they can add to the headers they use to cause the form contents to be BCCd to additional addresses. Presumably they then use the forms to relay truck loads of spam to unsuspecting net [...]












