Twelve brilliant days of Virgin Media

I have to say – I love Virgin. They are right up there with Apple and the BBC in my books. Though saying that – the BBC are getting more and more biased towards Microsoft lately and generally stupid with their articles. For example: the full page of Vista news, articles saying Apple is plagued…

PhotoshopBoost.com re-designed, UserNameWasTaken coded

Just CSS/XHTML coded and done a quick WordPressing of the new PhotoshopBoost.com design. I think you’ll agree it looks much better than the default WordPress layout ;) Also did a small CSS/XHTML coding job for UserNameWasTaken.com in the coding of their layout last week.…

Funholio funny picture generator AJAX’d

I’ve just finished uploading the next logical step for Funholio – the AJAX’ing of the refresh function to get a new image. This means you’ll get new images much faster and you’ll get them without refreshing and re-downloading the layout everytime you generate a new image. I’ve also fixed a bug that was stopping the…

Xing needs to concentrate on features rather than press releases

I don’t rant often, but this one annoys the heck out of me. *Start rant* Xing (formally openBC – a much better name) is really starting to annoy me. And it’s not down to their annoying use of the word ‘articles’ instead of ‘threads’ or ‘posts’ on their discussion groups. Or the ridiculous amount of…

Ten things you hope the client never says

Working from home as a full-time freelance web developer I’ve encountered some absolutely stunning lines from clients and so have friends of mine. This is a small collection of those lines to watch out for if you choose to go into the field yourself. 1. If you do this one for free… This has to…

Does the media have no morals left?

The superficial is reporting that footage of Anna Nicole Smith’s last moments (medics trying to revive her etc.) has been sold to an un-named media company in a…

Re-enabling error reporting in MAMP

For some reason error reporting is turned off by default in MAMP.. So this is how to re-enable it to how it should be. 1. Find your ‘MAMP’ directory in ‘Applications’ 2. Find ‘conf’ and open it up.. 3. Open up php4 or php5 (depending on your enabled version) 4. Line 270 should be something…