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“Server-side Coding” Category

5th May 2008 Must… Avoid… Cache/Caching Pun…
Optimisation through reuse.
16th Apr 2008 Mid-April Link Dump
Eurovision, comics, JavaScript, cards and more.
9th Apr 2008 A Shinier, Tastier Green Apple
An eco-friendly ecommerce redesign.
25th Mar 2008 Late-March Link Dump
Replies, URLs, comments, security, sci-fi, SPF and caching.
10th Mar 2008 The Dark Art of LOLspeak
With great power comes great responsibility.
26th Feb 2008 The Downside of Uploads
Another extra burden imposed by IE.
19th Nov 2007 World of LOLcraft
By popular demand.
13th Nov 2007 PHP preg Pattern Pitfall
Watch out for those trailing newlines.
26th Oct 2007 In Defence of PHP Short Tags
Questioning the conventional wisdom.
23rd Oct 2007 Floral Fashion
Boutique shopping for clothes, lingerie and accessories.
18th Oct 2007 Mid-October Link Dump
Animation, exploits, Morse, Ajax, SEO, games, amputation and beans.
21st Sep 2007 Mid-September Link Dump
Karma, fish, evil, dinosaurs, bugs and more.
24th Aug 2007 DNS Rebinding Nastiness
Zombifying browsers for fun and profit.
18th Jul 2007 Mid-July Link Dump
Disaster recovery, games, PHP, video, messaging and domain names.
4th Jul 2007 The Uncomfortable Truth About PHP
PHP6 isn’t necessarily the best successor to PHP5.
3rd Jul 2007 June Link Dump
Russia, XSS, cartoons, movies, notes, colour and cards.
18th May 2007 In a Zen State
Just a brief e-commerce grumble.
27th Apr 2007 April Link Dump
GIFs, colours, templates, demos, clients, CSS, frameworks and maths.
14th Apr 2007 A Framework For Discussion (Of Frameworks)
Acknowledging the difference between applications and sites.
3rd Apr 2007 Using HTTP Status Codes
Errors for all occasions.
30th Mar 2007 March Link Dump
Lisa, fluid, stats, Python, brushes, Wii and time off.
12th Mar 2007 Unicode-friendly PHP and MySQL
Getting web applications to think in UTF-8.
28th Feb 2007 February Link Dump
Torquay, Robocop, idents, flowers and more.
20th Feb 2007 Faffing About With Frameworks
Choosing the right foundations to build on.
31st Jan 2007 End-o’-January Link Dump
The new year produced a bumper crop.
28th Jan 2007 $wall->addBrick($you);
Information overload.
24th Jan 2007 Book Review: Building Scalable Web Sites
Sound advice from Flickr’s architect.
28th Dec 2006 End-of-year Link Dump
Using up URLs marked “Best Before End: 2006”.
27th Nov 2006 techlawlifelaunched
A new malevolent-designed site for attorney Jeff Seul.
20th Oct 2006 Vulnerability
Sloppy coding and head-in-the-sand attitudes.
14th Sep 2006 Tweaking WordPress Page Titles
Improve most themes with a snippet of code.
4th Sep 2006 Securing OS X’s Personal Web Sharing
Keep prying eyes away from work in progress.
18th Aug 2006 Setting Up Apache, PHP, MySQL, .htaccess and mod_rewrite in OS X
I think the title says more than enough.
7th Aug 2006 A-Week-Into-August Link Dump
A catchily-titled miscellany of web delights.
24th Jun 2006 WordPress and Yahoo! Hosting Gripes
Warnings for fellow web developers.
4th Jun 2006 May Link Dump
E-commerce, RSI, bogroll, generators, demons and scripts.
23rd May 2006 Headdress for OS X
Simplified Apache configuration for web developers.
8th May 2006 Pinging Bloglines
Feed your subscribers faster.
19th Apr 2006 Keeping It Stupidly Simple
Approach nifty interface gimmicks with caution.
16th Mar 2006 Preventing Prefetching
Putting greedy browsers on a bit of a diet.
7th Feb 2006 Selective Google Adsense and Firefox Ads
Detect search engine referrals and Internet Explorer.
27th Sep 2005 Software Development Myths
A few misconceptions about programming.
18th Sep 2005 Encyclopedic Internationalisation
Using Wikipedia as an example of I18n best practice.
13th Sep 2005 Email Injection Attacks
Got a contact form? Make sure it’s safe.
4th Sep 2005 Finishing Touches: Useful URLs
The address bar is part of your site’s interface.
29th Aug 2005 Coding Isn’t Important
What makes a good developer?
18th Jul 2005 “RAD Framework, Dude!”
Ruby has been on Rails for a while; now Python has Django.
16th Jul 2005 How About “Up and Atom”? No…?
Feed format hits version 1.0 .
15th Jun 2005 Similar Templating
Using just a dash of server-side coding to build up simple pages.
4th Jun 2005 More XML Goodness from Google and Microsoft
Google Sitemaps and Microsoft Office Open XML Formats.
22nd May 2005 Google Web Accelerator Aftermath
Lessons learned from the publicised problems.
27th Mar 2005 Easter Eggs
Sorry, no chocolate. You know it’s bad for you.
22nd Mar 2005 March Link Dump
A quick clear-out of this month’s notes.
20th Feb 2005 Moogle? MDoogle?
Search this site’s nooks and crannies.
5th Jan 2005 Remote Scripting for Dummies
Resources for developers getting started with XMLHttpRequest.
15th Dec 2004 Mapped Out
For some reason delivery firms still aren’t making full use of map data.
5th Dec 2004 Have Favatars
Icons for comments, and a strange Microsoft observation.
28th Nov 2004 Reinventing the Wheel
Revelling in the madness of building my own blogging system.
26th Nov 2004 Favatars
A nifty idea for adding little icons to weblog comments.

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