Awesome panoramic video

Fonts Used In Logos of Popular Websites

Fonts Used In Logos of Popular Websites.

Wanna learn how to make a Wordpress theme? Heres a start

Just came across this collection of tutorials to help with learning how to create your own wordpress templates. Check it out.

Quick post

Just a quick post: came across two cool tutorials I thought I’d share.
Display your latest Twitter update with jQuery
How to Create A Simple Web-based Chat Application

One big list of jQuery – jQueryList.com

jQuery is awesome! There I said it. I’ve been using it for about 2 months now and it has completely changed the way I do all my web development. Life has become so much easier. In light of this breakthrough in awesomeness I’d like to share with you a site I came across (thanks stumbleupon) called http://jquerylist.com/. It contains a huge list of jQuery examples demonstrating every possible way you would want to convey information to a user. Check it out and happy coding!

Getting back in to the swing of things

This is my first post in nearly a year, life has been hectic and haven’t had much time to update this blog. I am back now though, and there are going to be a few changes in the upcoming weeks.

Focus Change

In the past I have written mainly about stuff which would be helpful to people in the development community, but that is going to change. Yes I will still write about development stuff, but that will not be the sole focus of my entries. There is more to life than dev! So anything that comes to mind I will be writing about. Watch this space!

New Theme

I’m not a great designer, but I do know my way around photoshop, so I will be attempting to create a new theme for this blog. I’ve come across some great tutorials that help with this sort of thing so I am ready to dive in head first and see what happens.

I think by taking the focus away from just development stuff there should be more to write about so check back regularly for updates! Till next time, later!

Vidz goes live!

I have just launched an Audio and Video sharing site called Vidz. The idea is basic; upload and share videos and audio on the site and you can embed players in your blog/site that will stream media from my site.

Have a look at the site and let me know what you think. Since the site is brand new there isn’t much happening at the moment but that will change pretty soon.

Giving credit where it is due

Now I cant take any credit for development of this site, all I have done is installed it on my site. The guys who are responsible for it are over at PHPMotion who have developed this great open source video sharing script that is available to anyone for free!

Installation is a breeze if you have experience with setting up PHP and MySQL environment and only requires very basic configuration from your (the administrator) side.

Link to Vidz
Thanks in advanced for the support!

Articles and links worth checking out – 15 July 2008

More and more links

Game Programming in J2ME crash course

Effective Code Reviews

8 reasons why XML sucks

The 10 Ultimate SEO Tips of All Time

Handling images with PHP

Building and managing virtual teams

How to be a programmer

Life

How to Write with Style (Kurt Vonnegut)

26 Key Innovations of the last 20 years

Someday is NOW!

101 Dirt Cheap Ways to Enjoy Yourself

Data ‘chunks’ are easier to remember

The income snowball

SQL Injection Example

Here is a good example of how hackers use SQL Injection to access data. The example here is only one of many possible attacks that hackers can use to access (or destroy) information on your site so its very important to implement security measures to protect your site.

More detail on what SQL Injection is:

What is a SQL Injection bug? – Joel on software

SQL Injection walkthrough – SecuriTeam

Protecting Your PHP/MySQL Queries from SQL Injection – Metatitan

SQL Injection – WikiPedia
As a bonus here is an old xkcd cartoon about sanitizing your database inputs:

Little Bobby tables

Articles and links worth checking out – 12 July 2008

I’ve been away for a while so I have a bumper edition of links for you. Enjoy!

Technology

Login Form Design Patterns

10 Mobile Developer Tips

Startup Business Strategy For The Simple-Minded

Reddit goes open source

A guide to cloud computing

Iconfinder

Code Kata

Getting your copyright date right using PHP

21 laws of Computer Programming

Eight Golden Rules of Interface Design

10 Rules of user Experience by Google

Life

Overcoming Shyness

BMW GINA: New Concept car

Bad guys really do get the most girls.

5 Tips To Recharge Your Body And Mind Overnight

7 steps to Completing your 1projects on time

12 Keys for building trust

Online Games

TypeRacer

Lunch Timers

Puzzle Farter

Other

Odd facts about WWII

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