Category: "Server Side Web Development"

CSS with PHP

Last week I re-designed the home page of my personal website as the previous version was quite plain looking, mostly because I'd never gotten around to updating it. I had a visual theme for most of the sub-pages, a strong graphic as a background 'column… more »

SearchMonkey Developer Event

Review: SearchMonkey Developer Event at Wallacespace, 2 Dryden Street, Covent Garden, London, England. WC2E 9NA. 18:30 to 20:00 I'd heard quite a lot about SearchMonkey, Yahoo!'s new search platform but not got around to checking it out, so I was hopi… more »

Fixing WackoWiki for PHP 5

For a long time now, I've had a WackoWiki implementation on my (not so technical) personal site. It was upgraded from a WikkaWiki which was installed back in March 2003, which makes it about four months older than this blog :) Anyway, the point is it… more »

Fixing Jack's formmail.php for register_globals = off

For many years now, I've used various versions of Jack's FormMail.php to handle simple form submissions on various websites, mostly 'contact us' forms. The script has gotten a little more sophisticated with time, but it's still one of the simpler ways o… more »

My First Website for Mobiles

At work we decided to purchase a few .mobi domains, not because we have any particularly compelling mobile content, but to boost the web presence of our mobile product and, mostly, to make sure no-one else snapped up the domain names we wanted. However t… more »

GDD07UK: Google Data APIs (Part 1)

Review: Google Data APIs at GDD07UK, The Brewery in London, 52 Chiswell Street, London 14:45 to 15:30 The GData APIs are a uniform interface into almost all the Google applications (Blogger, Mail, Calendar, Spreadsheets etc.). They're all based on an e… more »

WebDD07: Ruby On Rails for .NET Developers (Dave Verwer)

Review: Ruby On Rails for .NET Developers at WebDD Conference 07 14:30 to 15:30 After a brief spell writing a Ruby on Rails app last summer I always meant to do more stuff with it, but somehow I never got around to it. I was hoping this talk would re-… more »
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