Supersonic Feet

As I mentioned in my previous post, at work we're moving a lot of clients to new hosting. Due to a very silly system at the old hosts, that means we have to transfer the domain names to a new registrar as well as they won't let us just point at another host's servers. We're using ...

As part of my work at Net Effects, since Christmas last year I've been working on a new online shopping system wherever other client work allows. For a good few years, Net Effects have run an online shopping site called UK Shopability but when I joined the company last year they had already started getting a ...

Not as easy as you'd imagine. Today I tried moving my Rails-based CMS code onto my host's server so I could combine a bit of PHP code with it until I get time to re-write in Ruby (image manager plugin for XINHA). Having run rails on the server to create a default Rails directory structure, I ...

Via Vitamin, I just read a very good blog post by Matt Mullenweg about the beeping in his house. He came back from a trip to find an irritating beep every minute or so, but didn't fix it for days. The gist of the post is about how engineer-types are able to block out irritating noises ...

I've been using WordPress on this site and a couple of others for quite a while now and something that pleases me every time I use it is the login page. The page's simplicity and clarity (not always one and the same) make it extremely obvious what you need to be doing and where, removing unnecessary ...