First impressions… WTF.

The Logitech Z-5500D Speakers are in one word.. Awesome! Read the rest »

When designing a website you can generally bet your bottom dollar that in most browsers it will be totally awesome, you open Internet Explorer and it’s a jumbled mess. Shame. Some people would just give up… MADNESS! Read the rest »

So, as I wander down the path of learning how to integrate a MySQL database with PHP I have pondered the difference between MySQL and MySQL improved (MySQLi). I have two “Beginning PHP & MySQL” books at home and one of them uses MySQL and the other uses MySQLi. They are both quite recent, but neither cared to explain the difference between the two and why we should use one above the other. “So!” I thought, “I will find an answer and I’ll be damned if I can’t find an explanation!” Read the rest »

Yes, well…. the title explains it all. Normally I’m tweeting several times a day and a new blog post came out every few days. So… “what’s been keeping you?” I hear you ask. Well, many things really Read the rest »

So, today I was thinking of something that I could do every week and then write about it in my blog, like a weekly update, but not Read the rest »

On Monday the 28th at 9:15AM my Playstation 3 arrived courtesy of Sony and their free Playstation 3 give away. My first impression of opening it up and looking at it was “Holy moly! This thing is massive!”. Read the rest »

Wow… this Tour de France has been the best one so far. From Simon Gerrans winning Stage 15 to Carlos Sastre’s solo effort up the L’Alpe-d’Huez to snatch the Maillot jaune (Yellow Jersey) from his team mate Fränk Schleck but also get a significant time gap from Australia’s Cadel Evans. Read the rest »

Well, what a July this has been. The Tour de France this year has been very exciting but also put me in a dilema. Read the rest »

Well, yesterday I sat down to do the first part of my Beginning PHP tutorials when I discovered that the code tag is just rubbish, not to mention the fact that there doesn’t seem to be the htmlspecialchars “effect” on Wordpress posts so my chevrons didn’t become < and > respectively. Read the rest »

Over the last few days I’ve been writing a guide on beginning PHP. The guide should be finished within a few days and then released through a series of blog posts and possibly in PDF format as well. Read the rest »