Jamie Huskisson — Hero-in-chief at JH. Life-long business owner and former freelance Magento/PHP developer of seven years.
I’m probably a little over anal when it comes to checking CV’s that people have sent across. But I’ve gone through nearly a hundred from our latest job posting and I felt it would be of benefit to a few people to mention some things I’ve noticed on the vast majority of CV’s sent in…
Most students have come into our offices talking about what’s covered in their modules at college/university. They’ve come in, sat down and spoke reasonably passionate about what they want to do within the roles they’re applying for. Though there’s no depth knowledge when questioned, no portfolio or diversity in what they say and no opinion…
When I moved into my new house one of the first things I did was purchase myself a nice new Sky+ box. Boy, was that a big mistake. Virgin, please read the following and adapt your advertising appropriately: You don’t own the box: Virgin don’t sell you a box, they let you rent it. Which…
I’ve been asked this question time and time again, so here we are. How to redirect directories and old URL’s to new ones when moving your site from one domain to another, or launching a new version with re-structured URLs. Here’s a sample structure of a re-direct line: Redirect 301 /about.php /about.php here is the…
Through my vast amount of experiments in outsourcing I’ve made quite a few mistakes here and there that would have been better avoided if I had simply thought about it before I did it. Here are the common mistakes I’ve either been a part of or have witnessed myself through others, in a hope that…
Everyone who’s been reading my posts know that I get most of my developing ideas from the many web apps and social networks I visit around the web.…
It’s not exactly a version 2.5 but we may as well stick with whatever WordPress version I’m using instead of counting the exact amount of times I’ve changed around this site. It just makes things easier. (Update: WP 2.5.1 released four seconds after making the site live, good timing). I had David over at Rolled…
The following is a general list of questions that can be updated towards what client’s need to do to help people launch their site on time and without any problems. Decisions need to be made well in advance when it comes to launching a site, and this article covers just some of the most important…
I officially became a fully fledged geek the other day when I signed up and started playing World of Warcraft. The reason I’m making this post is that…
I rang up PayPal a few days ago over a dispute, and TV licensing today over a renewal. Both times I was met with a robotic system that plays a pre-recorded voice asking a question, then it requires me to say answers and then it would interpret these and ask another question until everything has…