28th December 2013 3:00 pm

My series of Django tutorials for building a blogging engine are by far the most popular posts I've ever written on here. I've had a lot of…

16th August 2013 9:49 pm

I've recently started using Vagrant for PHP development. It's an incredibly useful and convenient tool - never again will I have to faff…

28th July 2013 7:20 pm

The idea of building an entire web app using nothing but JavaScript has always appealed to me. Despite its undoubted flaws, JavaScript is a…

21st April 2013 10:06 pm

In my day job, I recently finished PagePooch , a tool for monitoring web pages for changes in content or prices. It's a project that I'm…

15th December 2012 12:26 am

One thing that I've really never liked about PHP is the requirement to install a full-blown web server, so I was pleased when PHP 5.…