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I've recently launched Filing Reminders, a free email service to remind you when the filing dates for a UK company are approaching. The design comes from the highly useful Bootstrap,…

I've recently launched Curry Gateway, a directory of curry houses in the British Isles which, like Pub Gateway, focuses on precise geodata and eschews intrusive advertising. Most of the curry…

Forwarded to me by a fellow PHP developer: If PHP Were British.

Nelson Minar has an interesting post on username restrictions in web applications (via rc3.org). I agree that email addresses are better than usernames, as they can be remembered easily, rarely…

Last week I launched Pub Gateway, a directory of pubs in the British Isles which focuses on precise geographical data and no intrusive advertising. It's written entirely in PHP with…

Several years ago, I wrote an article entitled PHP Coding Guidelines for evolt. It received a reasonable number of comments and positive feedback, and was my first foray into the…

It's customary to begin programming with an example which prints 'Hello World', so I thought I'd do the same with this blog: <?php echo 'Hello World'; ?>

Around this time last year, I made some technology predictions for 2008. You can read the full details in the original post, but I have summarised how true (or false!)…

It’s been some time since the last major WordPress release, but version 2.7 is now out and I’ve just finished upgrading my various blogs. The dashboard is quite different is…

On the company’s blog today, Twitter announced that they would be ceasing all SMS updates in the UK. As usual, TechCrunch UK was hot off the mark with a report,…