If you’ve been living in the western world this week you’ve probably heard of the woes with News Corporation and News International regarding the phone tapping ‘scandal’ at the News of the World newspaper. To me, the scandal itself is bad enough, but realistically it only highlights what I’ve been thinking myself for many years [...]
I’ve noticed a trend in the articles I’ve been reading over the past few days – quite ‘by accident’ I might add. They’re articles that have popped up on my Twitter stream and I’ve chosen to read them. They’ve not specifically been about the subject of happiness – but they have all led me to [...]
The short answer to this is yes – definitely!
I suppose I better fill this article out a bit and explain why I arrived at that answer? Ok, here goes.
Some years ago Google released their Chrome browser for Windows. It was OK, but there was already Firefox as an alternative to Internet Exploder, and if you [...]
I’ve been in the Web Development Business now for more years than I care to remember. In that time I’ve worked with plenty of E-Commerce engines, some of which were entirely bespoke before ‘off the shelf’ solutions such as osCommerce or Magento existed.
In more recent years I’ve been using osCommerce. I took a look at [...]
If you’re developing a software solution, whether it’s for yourself or for a larger project, there’s plenty of source control products out there from CVS, Subversion or more modern solutions like git and Mercurial that distribute the load. Regardless of whichever you might be using, if you’re just developing personal projects, you’re probably using the [...]