Angela from ToffeeNut Design approached me to finish the development of her site. The site was partially developed due to having another developer working on it previously, however the previous developer had to abandon the project (through no fault of either party) so I was tasked with finishing off the site. The work that was left for me to do was the PSD to XHTML/CSS co…
Read more »This article is only about my new site here at MJPA.co.uk. I ended up redesigning the site as the previous design was too focused on being a portfolio site and had no proper way of having blog posts or giving more details on the things I have developed. So, here is the new site with both portfolio and blog sections (as well as the old about/contact sections) which are exp…
Read more »Back in September localhostr updated its API to use JSON which meant my localhostr uploadr needed a JSON library to parse the responses from localhostr. Due to the way the update was done by localhostr, I didn't have much time to update localhostr uploadr and so I had a choice to make - either use an existing library or quickly implement one myself.
Having found JSON.org, …
Read more »While writing the blog script for my site, I realised I would need to create a preview of each post. The quick and easy approach would be to use substr() to crop the HTML string to the required preview length. This however has a major flaw - the cropped HTML would likely have tags still open and may even have half opened tags. A quick solution would be to use strip_tags()…
Read more »Version 1.2.3 of localhostr uploadr has been released. This release contains a few bug fixes. The update is live and localhostr uploadr should tell you there is an update within 24 hours. Details of the changes in this version are below:
With the addition of Jump Lists in Windows 7, the Application ID property of shortcuts has become more significant. It is this property that links a shortcut and the EXE to the jump list, without the ID being set there is no jump list support for that application.
When I wrote this plugin, it was not possible to modify the ID for shortcuts created using the CreateShortcut …
Read more »Although RRDTool by default has the ability to generate various colourful graphs, it simply cannot do gradients. Graphs are good for quickly identifying spikes in the data but it is harder to quickly identify high (or low) values when the data is relatively consistent.
Having decided I wanted to monitor the temperature of various points in my room, I figured it would be a …
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