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Been a busy few weeks at the University of Kent, wrapping up my Maya project and finishing off a rather successful rugby season. But most importantly the time has come to start planning my final year project!

When I first set out with this new design last May, I promised myself that the site would be equal parts portfolio and writing. The reason for this is I wanted the 'blog' to be full of useful information on web development and the like, rather than superfluous diary entries. And so, in what little free time I have to dedicate to this site, I've updated the portfolio ...

I've been working on a shopping cart site recently, and one of tasks I had to do was selecting specific options in dropdowns and radio buttons on the fly, so I used jQuery since I thought it was about time. I looked up a number of ways of achieving this, normally conflicting, so I thought I'd document the methods that worked for me.

A few weeks ago I was approached by WhyCommunicate, a company run by a friend of mine, who were hoping to use the newly released Google Analytics API to provide client's with analytics information in their existing extranet. I loved the ambition of it, and I hadn't worked with an API before so I thought this was a great venture for me and went for it. You can see the finished result over here in ...

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Around a year ago now, when I was working at Active Webdezign, I built a small CMS for a website, no more that 5 pages to it. One thing I was thinking of back then was the ability to create a system where you could have a single table for all pages, but have the ability to havarte parent and child pages without the need to create another table. Basically like Wordpress does it. And at the time, I knew ...

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Over the dark, dank winter break I took quite a bit of time to myself to indulge in one of my favourite passtimes that has been sidelined in recent years: reading a good old book.  I read a few great works of fiction, The Bridge by Iain Banks standing out particularly, as well as finally getting round to reading Don't Make Me Think, which I am ...

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Now, I know why most people compress they're js files, because they don't won't people to steal the code, but it must be the case that sometimes, like what happened to me today, you've just gotta crack that encryption. I'm a bit worried about posting this, so I hope it's in someway new and/or useful. Basically we need to go into a js file that was given to us, in order to change a few DOM-based functions. I opened up the ...

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The Caribbean property website I've been working on at Webdezign is nearing completion. Nothing to show quite yet, but I've very happy about it, and I got to flex my UI design skills in the administration section (the front-end design was ably undertaken by Peter). One of the multitude of new things I had to learn with this project was mod rewriting URLs using the APACHE rewrite module, which, even if I only used it ...

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