Supersonic Feet

With the hype over Web 2.0, it's funny how many online advertisers are still using the same crass techniques of the web's earlier years. Within a minute of each other, I just got hit by three of the most annoying advert types while checking two websites. I loaded up an article on the Sky Sports website ...

Something I check on the status of now and then is the ability to have a nice upload progress bar for uploads via the browser. Sean Treadway's initial example looked great but required special server setup. Support was added to Mongrel recently, but I never got around to properly investigating as there was no documentation of ...

Following on from my previous post about Sky Sports' 'oops' moment, I just got the same error message again, with the same silly 'itdoesn'tgetbetterthanthisband'. Well, apparently it does, because I don't see the BBC News site collapsing under load and I'm quite sure they have more visitors to deal with than Sky Sports. If they want ...

In my early-morning check of the football sites to see who Newcastle's been linked to buying today, I came across an interesting error on Sky Sports' site: they'd seemingly run out of either bandwidth or processing power and the server was busy. Aside from the surprise at a site as big as Sky Sports getting too ...

Browsing StyleGala this afternoon, I spotted a link to an article about the rise of awareness in corporate Britain of the need for accessible websites. 'Great news' I thought, clicking the link and reading the article. It basically seemed to be a bit of PR for some company called Tridion (can't say I'd ever heard of ...