January 2009
Google Maps Redux
Posted by: Blair on 25 Sep 2008 @ 4:29 pm Category: Programming and Coding for the Web
A couple of months ago I wrote about Google Maps and how it could be integrated into your web site to allow your customers to find you easily. Of course, since I wrote that article we have seen the release of Street View which is the amazing culmination of months of work by Google employees who spent their days driving around pretty much every street in urban areas of Australia with huge...Feature Creep
Posted by: Blair on 28 Aug 2008 @ 3:12 pm Category: Programming and Coding for the Web
I ride my bike to work everyday and, unfortunately, punctures are a regular hazard. In fact, it seems like I am forever buying new tubes. To try to mitigate this in future I have now bought myself a set of tyre liners. These are a nifty little product which sit between the tyre and the tube and are supposed to prevent any foreign objects that penetrate the tyre from puncturing the tube....What you want verses what you ask for.
Posted by: Vanessa on 21 Aug 2008 @ 11:03 pm Category: Programming and Coding for the Web
One of the most frustrating parts of programming is misinterpretation. When we get asked to create software for clients the briefs can be very small and the expectations can be very large.
It is hard to see from a technical point of view sometimes what the client is actually asking, as personally, having done much analysis and building of product, I start to see it built as it is being...
Does your website do PDF?
Posted by: Mark on 14 Aug 2008 @ 2:44 pm Category: Programming and Coding for the Web
A lot of website owners can answer "Yes" to this question. But how far does their PDF integration go? Do they only have downloadable but static PDF documents or does their website generate PDF files on the fly with dynamic data in it?
Where branding becomes more and more important each day, people still get ugly looking plain text e-mails containing their confirmation order or invoice from...
Andy's New Toy: PHP Taint Checking
Posted by: Andrew on 8 Aug 2008 @ 8:59 am Category: Programming and Coding for the Web
To help pickup possible SQL Injection issues (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sql_injection) in our PHP code I've been messing about with a modified version of PHP that supplies taint checking.
If you're unfamiliar with taint checking you can check some pages like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taint_checking or http://perldoc.perl.org/perlsec.html.
In short - it is a way to have PHP...
Blog Entry: What the heck is a HTML? Return of the jargon.
Posted by: Aidan on 6 Aug 2008 @ 11:21 pm Category: Programming and Coding for the Web
My last blog entry was an attempt to describe a few of the technologies that enable we simple humans to work with and use the Internet and WWW. This time I will attempt to describe a few more technologies that enable the operation of the interwebs as we know and love them today, but I will be concentrating more on the software used to build interactive web-sites, as opposed to the...
How To Become A Web Programmer
Posted by: Blair on 23 Jul 2008 @ 10:19 am Category: Programming and Coding for the Web
I once heard a former employer tell an employee that, at 24, he was too old to become a programmer. He wasn't trying to be mean or anything (at least I don't think he was). He simply thought that to be a successful programmer you need to start at a very early age. I am happy to say that I am living proof that he was wrong. When I started my first programming job, at Ireckon, I was almost...What the heck is a HTML? Web enabling technology for the uninitiated
Posted by: Aidan on 3 Jul 2008 @ 10:13 am Category: Programming and Coding for the Web
So, you know about the web and use it frequently... but you're interested in knowing more about how it all works. Where do you begin?
Well, there is a multitude of different technologies, all woven together by various individuals to create something that is useful (or in some cases just pure time wasting fun). In this post, I will attempt to explain some of the technologies that allow...
Adapting to New Technology
Posted by: Blair on 26 Jun 2008 @ 5:23 pm Category: Programming and Coding for the Web
As everyone knows, technology is always changing and advancing at a rapid rate that makes it difficult to keep up with. The web is no exception to this as I found recently.Last year I had a break from web programming to work in another field and in the meantime a technology called AJAX up and made itself popular. AJAX has proved so popular not because it provides anything new. In fact,...
Geek Speak
Posted by: Vanessa on 4 Jun 2008 @ 10:39 am Category: Programming and Coding for the Web
I find that I am both fluent in English, and Geeky Technical. I can swing both ways and talk fluently to the technically abled. But I also have the ability to speak non-technically to those clients or prospects who aren't in on the industry, terms or really the technology.
I think the hardest part is determining the technical level of the person you are speaking to. It is very easy to...
Mapping The Future
Posted by: Blair on 16 May 2008 @ 4:38 pm Category: Programming and Coding for the Web
Today I got to play around with Google Maps. If you haven't experienced Google Maps before then I suggest you get yourself on there right now. The best thing about Google Maps is that it has its own API which you can use to embed customised maps into your website.I know a some customers already have Google Maps on their contact page showing the exact location of their offices. But, what...
Coding Standards
Posted by: Blair on 4 Apr 2008 @ 12:22 pm Category: Programming and Coding for the Web
My lecturers were always harping on about coding standards and using comments in my code while I was at university. I usually went back after the fact and added comments for just about every line of code and this seemed to appease the lecturers. But, I never understood why they went on about it so much and considered it almost as important as whether the code did what it should.
Of course,...
Programming Outside the Square
Posted by: Vanessa on 27 Mar 2008 @ 10:20 am Category: Programming and Coding for the Web
Lately we have been doing a lot of internal development to help improve our internal processes. One of the joys of working internally is you get to think outside the square and do things that you never have done before, things that might not be safe.
A current dilemma that I have is making a system work the best for a bunch of different users who all have different needs for a screen....
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