Young Rewired State
Next week, I’m going to be volunteering as a mentor at Young Rewired State at Madlab in Manchester. It is a really exciting opportunity for me, as it is exactly the sort of event I would have loved to...
View ArticleThe Simple Guide to Git
I was looking for a simple guide to git to share with a client, and stumbled across this: http://rogerdudler.github.com/git-guide/ Absolutely worth checking out, whether you’re new to version control,...
View ArticleLike it or not, you’re going to be a Google+ user
Article: http://www.fastcompany.com/3004448/plus-one-proof-google-plus-will-prevail I’m so glad that someone has finally written this article, as I really believe it is true, and we’ll increasingly...
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Facebook Graph Search and Google
As a great surprise to nobody, Facebook launched its own take on search Yesterday. It’s actually a really cool service – you search for “pictures of my friends in New York” and it will diligently go...
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Like live acoustic music? Go see Dougie Francis on tour. (Please. :)
I don’t usually write about music, nor really much else other than technology – but since my friend Dougie is starting his debut acoustic tour this weekend, I’d make an exception! Dougie is an acoustic...
View ArticleChill: My little open source PHP CouchDb Library
Two years ago now, I created a CouchDb Client library for PHP called Chill and published it on Github. I used it in a couple of projects, and at some point upgraded it to operate as a Composer package,...
View ArticleHandling robots.txt files in PHP based bots
Modern web applications are rarely the stand-alone silos they once were. Web applications and sites alike pull data from countless other web sites as part of their normal operation — This can be as a...
View ArticleBack on my own server
I’ve been running dancryer.com on a shared hosting account and block8.co.uk (+ client sites) on AppFog for a while now. As of today, it is finally all back running on a server completely under my...
View ArticleAccounting for freelancers and contractors
When I first got started as a contractor, I wanted to make sure that I was set up in the best possible way to make sure my taxes were covered, I was legally protected and I was getting the most out of...
View ArticleDynamic DNS with CloudFlare
I have a Raspberry Pi at home that I use as a simple web server for a few bits and pieces, and I wanted to make it web accessible. I couldn’t rely on my ISP to provide a static IP address (it is, at...
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Preview Word, Excel, PowerPoint and PDF files in the browser
On a recent project, our system needed to be able to display a preview of various types of documents. We needed to be able to preview Word files, Excel files, PowerPoint presentations, PDF files,...
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