Worrying new UK web monitoring law and why we should care


Over the past week the UK government receive criticism of their handling of the new UK web monitoring law they're attempting to push through parliament. This new law will allow the Government to snoop on emails, instant messaging and any websites you may visit and have a

Getting started with Git


Git: Decentralising version control I've been a user of Subversion for a number of years, I was a little apprehensive about moving to a completely different versioning system but now I'm seriously glad I made the move. To recap, Subversion is a centralised version

Angry Monkeys


From my experience having programming standards and standard environments can be extremely beneficial to a development team. Not only can it improve the chances that you can find problems quickly but it also ensures problems are reproduceable. Having coding standards also

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iPhone support added

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If you try accessing this from an iPhone using Safari you should see a completely different lightweight, slimmed down version of the site. This is all thanks to a very beautiful plug-in WPtouch. It strips out a traditional view of the website and simply presents the content in a straightforward form to the user. It’s an absolutely top notch WordPress plugin I would definitely recommend it. If you’re lucky enough to have an iPhone take a look and let me know what you think of it.

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Blog Relaunch!

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Excerpt: Okay, so you’ll have noticed that there’s been a few changes round here. I’ve given the blog a big makeover from what it was. The old blog I felt was looking a little tired and wasn’t quite conveying the sort of feelings I wanted from people when they come across my blog. I wanted something a little cleaner and more welcoming so I came up with this design – I hope you all approve. I created the background myself after I was inspired by a picture on a Vector graphics site by Andy Law. You can view it in it’s full…

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