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20 Complete scripts to download

April 7th, 2010 | 11 Comments

I’ve put together a nice little collection of scripts over the past year or so, and have decided as it’s approaching summer in the UK (sorry winter in Australia!) to do a download bundle of 20 assorted scripts where you …
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20 Complete scripts to download

We Deliver – a 24hr project

February 6th, 2010 | 10 Comments

I’ve been meaning to do something sporadic and creative for a while now but have never got around to it until now. I decided to challenge myself to build a site (wedeliver.papermashup.com) in under 24hrs from concept and design through …
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We Deliver – a 24hr project

Using Highcharts JavaScript Library

January 12th, 2010 | 30 Comments

There are some great JavaScript graph libraries out there and one that’s recently come to my attention is Highcharts.com which is compatible with both the jQuery and Mootools frameworks. To get started point your browser here where you can download …
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Using Highcharts JavaScript Library

Win a copy of ‘Easy PHP Websites with the Zend Framework’ Christmas giveaway

December 7th, 2009 | 3 Comments

“Easy PHP Websites with the Zend Framework” shows you how to use the powerful Zend Framework to build websites with amazing speed and efficiency. Embracing a teaching strategy of learning by doing, showing you how to build website features you’ll …
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Win a copy of ‘Easy PHP Websites with the Zend Framework’ Christmas giveaway

5 SEO tuning tips

November 29th, 2009 | 3 Comments

If you think you can just build a website and expect it to perform well you can think again. Getting a website to the top of search results is every marketing managers goal. Im going to run through five key …
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5 SEO tuning tips

Key web development skills

November 3rd, 2009 | 6 Comments

API Knowledge A key tool for any budding web developer is API knowledge. It’s good to familiarise yourself with a variety of application interfaces. I started out using the Twitter REST API with PHP and CURL when twitter first launched …
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Key web development skills

Steps to learning a new programming language

October 27th, 2009 | 18 Comments

Learning a new programming language can be daunting to say the least. I’ve recently cracked it when it comes to jQuery. I wouldn’t say Im a pro by any stretch of the imagination but I can successfully build applications. It …
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Steps to learning a new programming language

Using web thumbs to enhance user experience

September 18th, 2009 | No Comment

Over the past few years I’ve had the opportunity to work on a few personal projects. This allowed me to experiment more with techniques that I wouldn’t have normally used on client sites. During this time I was building a …
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Using web thumbs to enhance user experience

Plagiarism and how to stop image hotlinking with .htaccess

August 9th, 2009 | 15 Comments

My last blog post was on how to make an autosuggest tool with jQuery, no sooner had i pressed the publish button did i find my complete blog post on guidesigner.net I had spent time and effort writing that tutorial …
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Plagiarism and how to stop image hotlinking with .htaccess

Display your Feedburner stats

March 20th, 2009 | 5 Comments

I’ve been away for the last week. My wife and I bought a flat in North London and finally moved in on March 16th. So I’m currently without the internet and won’t have it until the end of March which …
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Looking At RSS Feeds

January 15th, 2009 | No Comment

RSS feeds or ‘Rich Site Summary’ are standards when it comes to transporting data and using it on other sites, RSS feeds can be read in a web browser or subscribed to. Feeds are commonly refered to as ‘pulling’ rather …
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Blogging Trends

January 15th, 2009 | No Comment

Over the past ten months there has been a change in blogging trends. The top five noticeable trends are firstly many blogs are starting to have multiple authors and contributors, this increases the amount of content and brings more variety …
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