I finally took delivery of my new "toy" yesterday afternoon, so I've added a new server to my personal collection. It's a little HP DL 140 running Ubuntu server which I'll be using for some of my personal projects, such as the webmaster forum and a few other things. Migrating the various sites in from other machines dotted around the place shouldn't be too complicated, but I am … [Read more...] about Migrating And Upgrading ….
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Fastprovider.ie is gone
I see Tom has sold FastProvider to some lot in Belfast. I wonder what he'll get up to now... … [Read more...] about Fastprovider.ie is gone
Microsoft To Break The Internet (again!)
So Internet Explorer version 7 is going to be released this month .... Yippee!! I expect a load of things to break... In no particular order: - websites of all shapes and sizes - update services based on IE ActiveX controls - AIB business banking And there'll probably be a load of really upset and confused people who won't be able to use their favourite websites due to MS' … [Read more...] about Microsoft To Break The Internet (again!)
Commenting your code may not be a good idea
While most people are encouraged to comment code in any programs or scripts that they produce you may want to revisit that concept now.... Why? Well imagine if someone left a comment that wasn't that flattering in the midst of it all. For example: "the user is a w**nker" I'm sure we've all done it :) I haven't ever written that much code, so I'm less likely to have … [Read more...] about Commenting your code may not be a good idea
Is Metatag Abuse an Issue?
While working on one of my little side-projects I spotted some rather interesting meta content (I also saw a lot of dross, but that's another day's work). The meta tags included on the main page of a well known company's website included explicit references to a couple of their competitors. I didn't have the time to examine all the subpages, but the inclusion of the competitors … [Read more...] about Is Metatag Abuse an Issue?