Category Archives: General

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, which allows me to put together a basic layout and … Continue reading →

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 houses have been added as a result of my visits … Continue reading →

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 change and are usually unique to an individual. The only … Continue reading →

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 a MySQL backend, and utilises a number of existing libraries … Continue reading →

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 world of writing articles on programming techniques. I’ve now updated … Continue reading →

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’; ?>