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18 months on – stats for this site

Posted by: Paul on: September 16, 2009

In the interests of the entire internets (ie: me) I now post some stats from this site, which has been “active” (in the very loosest sense of the word) for about 18 months.
First up, top 17 posts:

Javascript: checking if a function exist
6,074

Internet Explorer 7 CSS filter
5,707

Javascript: testing whether elements or
3,123

MySQL query speed: REGEXP vs. [...]

Thoughts on an open messaging platform

Posted by: Paul on: May 8, 2009

Twitter in the microblogging world now has the pull of Google in the search world – if you’re not ‘on Twitter’ you’re nowhere inn terms of being able to connect, share and promote via microblogging (surmising that Twitter now gets 80 – 90% of microblogging traffic / use.)
This effectively locks the market into one monopoly [...]

Three steps to getting stuff done

Posted by: Paul on: January 15, 2009

As we become inundated with more and more data, there is more to do, less time (seemingly) to do it in and more pressure to organise, categorise and find the relevance in all that information.
Case in point – I have a full time job, 3 kids (soon to be 4), do some freelance work to [...]

A fork in the road

Posted by: Paul on: September 9, 2008

Call me old fashioned, but I wasn’t quite sure what to do when WinSCP gave me this error message.
Maybe it didn’t matter?

Windows to Linux…and back again

Posted by: Paul on: July 1, 2008

I got brave recently and installed Ubuntu. At first I was pleasantly surprised at how much of my hardware it picked up (the only thing it missed was my modem) and at the improved quality of the whole experience from the days of Red Hat distro’s seven years ago. However, after a few weeks, I [...]

“Photos taken at just the right angle”

Posted by: Paul on: June 27, 2008

Got this in an email at work. Couldn’t resist posting.

Web development Vs. the ‘Enterprise’

Posted by: Paul on: June 17, 2008

I’ve recently been involved in providing some web-centric feedback for the development of proposed ‘enterprise’ eCommerce applications. These mainly public-facing web applications will tie into a large organisations infrastructure.
In the web world, this really shouldn’t be that big a deal, but in the ‘behind-the-firewall’ enterprise world this requires long meetings, architecture diagrams and much chin-scratching. [...]

I’m so Web 2.0, or maybe not

Posted by: Paul on: June 17, 2008

I used an official ‘Web 2.0 badge’ for a client site, but the site’s not beta – does that still count?

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Opera 8 & 9 CSS filter

Posted by: Paul on: April 28, 2008

Unfortunately, things don’t always render the same across all browsers (never have, likely never will). If, for some reason, you need to tweak things only in Opera 8 and 9, this CSS will do the trick:
Not my genius, but I can’t recall where I first found this so I can’t quote the source unfortunately.
/* target [...]

10 things I’ll do next week

Posted by: Paul on: April 18, 2008

roll out the new standards-compliant, jQuery navigation to a large section of the site (my work site, not this one)
complete all my freelance work
validate my code. I promise
rent a DVD and actually watch it for a change
get mod_rewrite voodoo working properly on my dev machine (tips welcome)
focus more on enjoying what I do
help the kids [...]