Still Breathing

If you’ve read this blog for any length of time you’ll know I’m a big fan of RSS – rich site summary, or really simple syndication – that allows you to read articles on a multitude of websites without visiting each one in turn. While I’ve been using the very good Bloglines for a while…

Emily says it like it is.

Just occasionally something comes along that makes this world a better place. The SQL concat function is one such thing. For years I have been floundering in multiple-query hell, but no more! Thanks to the great M@ I just discovered one more of the delights of SQL. You see, for ages now I’ve been doing…

No self-respecting designer/developer should be doing sites for free for charities, that’s what Michael Boyink says in this article. And he has a very good point – why chould organisations (in this case churches) value something that they got for free? Whereas his main point is that a site got for free will not have…

This time from the very pretty particletree, who are giving away a free PHP and ASP form validation mini-app*. Very useful. I’ve decided, as of just now, to call applications that aren’t big enough to deserve being called an “application” a mini-app. I could call then applets, but that has other connotations. You may disagree…