One sure way of getting more spam is by publishing your email address on a website. The nasty spambots come along, read the email address and then add you to their spam lists. For a lot of my clients I recommend adding a contact form of some sort rather than...
For a long time I was running multiple versions of Internet Explorer under Windows XP. These standalone versions I would get from browsers.evolt.org. The only frustrating thing with these browsers was that conditional comments didn't work and although there is a great article called Taming Your Multiple IE Standalones on Position is Everything...
It's been a while since I've posted but wanted to let you know about a newish framework that I have come across and so far seems very promising. There's been a lot of excitement about frameworks recently following on from the success of Ruby on Rails. Having played with Rails...
I always seem to be having this debate with my web development students so it was very welcome to find this easy decision making flow chart. I will definitely be using this in class and I hope it will help you with your own web projects.
Every web developer should read Getting Real by the guys at 37signals and now there is no excuse. 37signals have just released a full copy of the book in html on their website. In case you don't know 37 Signals is are behind the popular web applications Backpack, Basecamp, and...
The Blog has only been up a few weeks and I'm starting to see more and more comment spam appearing on the website. I decided to start clearing up but before I do I wanted to llook at ways of slowing it down. I was looking at some info about...
I've been looking at the newly out of beta Live.com search engine. The biggest problem I have encountered is that the location seems to be wrongly detected. I am located in South Africa - I have checked my regional setting on my computer and they are correct. If I search...
Intel is offering $1m in prizes to designers and manufacturers who can come up with sexier alternatives to the "big, beige box". It seems to me that if Apple entered then they would be the most likely to win this competition currently. Personally I quite fancy a 24" iMac for...
301 redirects are important if you are moving or relocating a website or webpage that has already got traffic and/or PageRank. By using a 301 redirect search engines, well Google definately, will see the redirect as a permanent move and all page rank from the old URL will filter through to...
Finally I'm launching a new blog. This Blog will incorporate information from the old overland.anglings.com website as well as any new information that I want to post for family, friends, students and anyone else who might be interested. I've been working with TYPO3 for a while now and wanted to...
An interesting insight into lazy design is taking place over at businesslogs.com. Toyota Georgetown is having a conference and their newly designed logo seems to be a bit of a rip-off from the 9rules logo. I recall that a similar thing happened with the new Quark logo last year. To...
Following a weekend upgrade to OS X 10.2.8 on an old Beige 266MHz G3 Macintosh I've been struggeling to get an old Palm III to sync. Finally I "tricked" the Mac into syncing. Having search the internet for a solution and not found it I thought I'd document it here...
I've been seeing Movable Type everywhere recently so I decided to take another look. I had previously looked into it, but at the time I discounted it as it was Perl based and I really didn't have any experience with Perl. What I was really looking for was a PHP...
We are proud to announce the birth of Kaitlyn Grace Angling. She was born at 12:40pm today and weighed 3.43Kg.
Real lunch, real royalty, totally unexpected but hugely enjoyable but first the boring stuff then the fairytale. We are at the Cameroon embassy gates way too early and have to wait, the embassy is on Victoria Island and we are living on the main land so have to leave by...
