David Hurst

PHP/MySQL, REALbasic, Javascript Developer

What’s the national speed limit on a dual carriageway for a car?

Here’s an interesting question. How frequently do you get stuck on a dual carriageway with a central reservation behind a car sticking to 60MPH?
This seems to happen to me nearly every time I go out. Is it that these drivers just don’t feel comfortable doing more than 60MPH (in which case I would respectfully submit […]

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Lots of people like reading my stuff - I might write some more…

I now average over 7,000 unique visitors to my humble website every month. I’m dead chuffed that so many people are interested in my various musings, rants and technical discussionism. My thanks to you all.

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Why won’t my AJAX form upload a file?

Do you ever have those dumb moments? You waste a whole load of time trying to get a piece of code to work and performing the most complex de-bugging on it only to realise that you have overlooked the most basic and obvious thing?
Yesterday I was putting together an image upload script, which I wanted […]

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Should Beckham retire?

Not if last night’s performance was anything to go by. After Peter Crouch, Becks was our best player. He proved yet again that he is the guy for the big occasions. And what was all that nonsense in the BBC studio about him not being fit? He covered 6.4KM in the time he was on […]

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Bye bye Steve

Steve McLaren has been sacked. Thank goodness for that. The England team deserves better.

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