Recently I’ve been working with an agency that has its own simple PHP web site framework. During the course of working with them, a problem arose: pages were disappearing, apparently without human involvement.
With some detective work they had discovered that somehow the ’secure’ CMS part of the site — where the client can log in [...]
A couple of weeks ago, I spotted a post on Slashdot about a company – fonts.com – that was opening up its font library for use by web developers. I thought it was a pretty neat idea: it uses the new-ish @css-font functionality that works in most modern browsers – along with a bit of [...]
Just a quick note to myself…
I’m working on a navigation system that uses CSS image replacement. To hide the text, CSS shifts it out of view by using the text-indent property and a big negative value. However, a side-effect of this is that when you click on a link, the dotted border that appears while [...]
One of my personal nightmares goes as follows: I’m working on an existing MySQL-based system, adding or changing something that involves altering existing database tables. I do what I need to, commit the code and then realise that I need to make the database changes too…only I’ve forgotten to keep track of the edits I’ve [...]
For reasons that I might outline in another post sometime, I recently decided to replace MooTools as the JavaScript library behind our company CMS (which I’m in the process of rewriting from scratch) with jQuery.
It’s been a few weeks now since I made the decision and I’m starting to become more comfortable with jQuery’s quite [...]