Lately I have been working with a couple of website analytics and event tracking services, Google Analytics is normally my goto service for this type of thing but it has a lot of limitations espe...
I have decided to have a go at building and selling Add-ons for the PyroCMS Add-on store as part of my new years aim of creating a residual income source.
I have been working with PyroCM...
Over the past few months I have dealt with SSL website encryption on a number of ccasions and it has got me thinking about the slow adoption of SSL on websites.
The Past
In the past SS...
This evening I took a look at a Facebook application built for Big Yellow Self Storage called Big Yellow Competitions.
I was taking a look at how it was built and what systems they had empl...
For a while now I have been using a basic FTP system called Surreal CMS, this service connects via FTP to your web host pulls the page you want to edit down and then allows you to edit it, when you do...
Last week I finally got around to porting the .tel Chrome extension I made to Firefox, unlike the Chrome extension this took a whole day to figure out but I can see why.
Chrome extensions offer a ver...
For the past 10+ years I have been building websites and I have always built them from scratch, a few years ago I discovered javascript frameworks and have been a big fan of jQuery ever since but the...
I mentioned in a previous post that I am planning on pursuing a career as a freelance developer, in order to make this work I need more experience using different technologies and systems so I am curr...
A few years ago when I was organising trips for the University mountaineering club and wanted a better way to collect peoples names for climbing weekends I decided to build the trip list a...
Earlier in the week I went to London to apply for a UK Identity Card. I have wanted one for over a year but it was only at the beginning of the month that they opened them up to the whole population r...