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Acer Aspire 5532 and Windows 8 14 Jul 2013 | 01:07 pm
I recently updated my, admittedly a few years old now, laptop to Windows 8 and have had a nightmare hunting down drivers for things. It’s probably important to note in case someone finds this post whe...
and then there were… Five!? 4 Apr 2013 | 03:18 am
A couple of months ago, Opera announced they were dropping Presto in favor of WebKit to allow them to spend their time focusing on the browser rather than the HTML rendering engine within it. This wa...
implementing tel: links 5 Mar 2013 | 02:52 pm
As more people turn to mobile devices to browse the web, one really useful way of catching the all important website lead, and more importantly making your users life easier, is by using tel: links to...
and then there were three 13 Feb 2013 | 01:52 pm
Big news in the world of HTML this morning as Opera announce the end of Presto and a move to Webkit for all future products HTML rendering. Leaving the only three major rendering engines Gecko, Webkit...
Movember 2012 26 Nov 2012 | 03:54 pm
This year I was “asked” to participate in Movember 2012. By asked, a colleague took donations from the people at work to persuade me to join in. With only 5 days left, and a total on £130, we have 1 ...
PHPNW12 Videos 21 Nov 2012 | 04:13 pm
The #PHPNW12 video xmas countdown has begun, one video from the conference per week day till they are all live. This is mainly a list for myself but feel free to keep checking it for updates. On the...
Coloured bullets in List items 2 Aug 2012 | 03:41 pm
As we all make the move to HTML5 and less images in our code for gradients, fonts, box/text shadow, etc. One thing I have yet to find a solution for is coloured bullets on a list item, that is until n...
Site update in progress 10 Nov 2011 | 04:30 am
I’m currently in the process of updating my site design and rather impatiently decided to put it live even though its not quite finished. This does mean section of the site aren’t going to be styled p...
WDC2011 is approaching 6 Sep 2011 | 11:25 pm
October is defiantly conference season for me, with the PHPNW conference at the start of the month and now WDC towards the end. The Web Developers Conference is aimed at both professionals and studen...
PHPNW 2011 is approching 3 Sep 2011 | 02:17 am
Last year I wrote a brief post about my first trip to the Manchester based PHP developer conference, PHPNW10. It’s now almost a year later and this years conference is just 1 month away so I think it’...
