General stuff, nothing specific
Postcode CSV and SQL
I’ve recently been part of a project that built a large database of the UK’s address data, including postcodes and place names. I have placed this data online to sell. The full set of data is over 100MB, and includes latitude and longitude coordinates of postcodes and some place names. This data has a ton [...]
CodeIgniter SEO Quick Tip
In your template (assuming you’re using some sort of engine), within the <head>, place this: <link rel=”canonical” href=”<?php echo site_url().$this->uri->uri_string();?>” /> It will produce the current full URL of the page the user is viewing, with the correct structure to your segments and subdomain (www.). This will avoid any canonical issues with search engines, as [...]
How to Print Part of a Page in JavaScript
Recently I was working on a project that needed a ‘print’ button. Usually I work with database-driven content, so creatign a ‘prinkt’ page is fairly simple – I just use a blank page template and load in the content. In thsi project though, there was quite an advanced templating system, which turned out to be [...]
Electronic Cigarette Blogs
I’ve just started up an electronic cigarette blog and a Squidoo electronic cigarette ‘lens’. I haven’t used Tumblr before, but I’m impressed from the off. It works out the box, looks great and is pretty idiot-proof. I think they only thing it’s missing is better networking – I have yet to find any other similar [...]
iPad Accessories
So, the Apple iPad came out a couple of months back. It’s advertised as being “unbelievable price of $499″, which at first glance is pretty unbelievable, as I can get a pretty high spec computer for that price. However, I’ve had chance to play with them a few times and someone in work has one. [...]
Cycle Routes
A while ago I wrote how I was setting up a cycle routes website with my Dad. Well, it’s been up for a while now, and has one of the largest collection of cycle routes of any website in the UK. Because of the website’s uniqueness, it has been spotted by a lot of the [...]
Mike on Design
I use this blog for lots of technical chit chat, and for publishing the odd bit of code. One thing I don’t use it for though, is general crappy ramblings or design-esque talk. Because of this I’ve just launched my blogger account, it’s over at Mike on design. Over here you’ll find chat about latest [...]
CodeIgniter – The best framework for the job?
Most web developers have their own code base that they refer back to on a regular basis. Many have even developed their own simple platforms that do a lot of the leg work for them, that they know inside out and can easily deploy on a new project. More recently though, at least in the [...]
Football Forum
Well, as you probably know, I like making things to do with football. Notably Football Badges and Football Feeds, both of which are doing extremely well. My new venture is something a little bit more large-scale. The football badges application gets around 250,000 new unique visits (at time of writing) per month, my goal is [...]