Category Archives: Web development

Crumbs!

Posted on October 13, 2011 by Nev

I was sure that I’d previously set out my thoughts on this matter but I can’t seem to find them anywhere. Therefore be advised that there follows something of a rant. I despise the term “breadcrumb” when used in the … Continue reading →

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What have I done?

Posted on May 14, 2011 by Nev

No, this isn’t related to my impending fatherhood. Being something of a mullet developer, you won’t really see anything of what I do day-to-day unless I make a mistake. Web designers and front-end developers have their portfolios to show off … Continue reading →

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Getting the basics right

Posted on March 20, 2011 by Nev

I almost missed this story about a how mistyped opening PHP tag exposed a bunch of Tumblr data. This wasn’t sensitive data like usernames and passwords but rather the slip revealed database-related information and private API keys related to the … Continue reading →

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Horses for courses

Posted on March 7, 2011 by Nev

I’m sick of the sniping — especially from those in the Ruby community. Ruby is nothing special nor new. The language itself didn’t arrive with the invention of Rails — some fellow and students and I toyed with it at … Continue reading →

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Holy wars

Posted on January 22, 2011 by Nev

I’m not talking about battles waged in the name of faith and religion here. Being prone to hyperbole, developers have come to use this term to describe the personal reasons for why they prefer one thing over another. For instance, … Continue reading →

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Intruder alert

Posted on October 3, 2010 by Nev

PHP is often derided as insecure. Most frequently however, weakness is not down to the language itself but poor programming techniques by amateur coders who are unfamiliar with the myriad security practices that should be employed in a defensive programming … Continue reading →

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Consistently smaller

Posted on August 31, 2010 by Nev

If you’re anything like me then you’ll hand-craft your code to give you a fine-grained control over how things are done. Like a lot of geeks, I’m a bit of a code-snooper and the OCD side of me feels more … Continue reading →

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What’s the hold up?

Posted on July 21, 2010 by Nev

The other day in the office we noticed that one of our servers was performing a little sluggishly. We rolled up our sleeves, fired up a terminal window and prepared to take a look under the hood. There were a … Continue reading →

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Behind the scenes

Posted on December 11, 2009 by Nev

The PQP profiler from Particletree is a very handy thing to have in your development toolbox. However, it doesn’t deal with the ever-increasing amount of work done via Ajax requests. Or, at least, it didn’t. Back in the days when … Continue reading →

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A telling position

Posted on November 18, 2009 by Nev

I ran into some issues while developing a site recently. Specifically, implementing an RSS feed of the clients news items. The XML validated perfectly fine and opened up in my testbed of various online and dedicated feed readers. However, the … Continue reading →

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