All things web development
So I’ve owned Linux Portal for as long as I can remember, but not really done much with it. Originally I created it to aggregate some of my favourite Linux RSS feeds from the sites I read the most, but it became a bit of an effort to maintain for something that had very little [...]
Another milestone. Football Badges has now reach 50,000 active users. This is the largest Facebook application that I have created to date. I will be releasing a new Facebook app in the next few days. It has some functionality and will hopefully keep users coming back to use the application, whereas Football Badges is a [...]
There are loads of scripts out there for pulling in your Twitter posts. A lot, if not most of them, base themselves heavily on JavaScript. This is bad for 3 reasons: People with JS disabled can’t read them It’s bad for your website’s search engine rank (SEO) as the search bots can’t read them It [...]
The amount of times I’ve been working on a project and the environment hasn’t had the useful json_encode function installed due to PHP being < version 5.2 is quite worrying. So, I decided to write my own replacement. How very decent of me. You can use it as you will. I wrote this a long [...]
In the past I have used several different online ad platforms for a little bit of advertising here and there, but the two that I (along with the majority of e-marketers) prefer is Google AdWords. Recently I have begun using Google AdWords more heavily. There is a lot of hype about Google AdWords and how [...]
Well, it’s a new year and as everyone else are starting their fitness regimes, I’m thinking about what projects need finishing off, beginning and pushing. 2009 was a good year for me and some great accomplishments were made. I graduated with my Software Engineering Degree, I got ‘best project’ of 2009, I started my job [...]
Yet another milestone, Football Badges now has (close enough) 30,000 users. There are around 15,000 new users signing up per month at the moment, so hopefully we’ll hit the 100,000 mark very soon. There are 300,000,000 people using Facebook at the moment, so I think 1 in every 3,000 people having my application on their [...]
Similar to Football Badges I have just released Baseball Badges. The ideal is exactly the same, you add the application to your Facebook profile and it will display your favourite teams badge. Most major league teams are listed but more can be added on request. Baseball Badges
Ubuntu is an operating system that runs on most computers. It is a completely free alternative to Microsoft’s Windows and Apples MacOSX. Ubuntu comes with all of the software you need to get up and running; from a fully functioning word processor (capable of editing and creating Microsoft Office files) to a web server and [...]
Recently I began a project with two other guys. The idea was simple; get a group of people signed up to a web site that asks you a unique question every day. This question changes at midnight and you can view your friends answers and comment on them. The project was finished about a week [...]