As I was relaxing on the sofa last night, I became aware of the general silence in the room. For the ordinary guy this might not mean anything, but when you are sharing the room with a 10 month old who’s just started walking, silence is usually a fair indication of a misdemeanor being committed. […]
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I had this problem the other day: two websites using identical code to collect RSS news feeds from identical sources. Website A loads its pages in about a second, whereas Website B takes up to 10 seconds. Go figure.
After I had thought about the problem for a while, and checked the codebase was identical, I […]
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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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I have launched a new website to bring attention to domain name scams and help bring the perpetrators to some sort of justice, or at least get them closed down.
Please visit www.domainscams.co.uk.
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‘I know what will brighten up this spreadsheet’, thinks the office worker, ‘I’ll make all the text Comic Sans. That will add a bit of fun to an otherwise dull document and show everyone I have a sense of humour…’.
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