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Save Time by Having a Kick Start Website Framework

Categorized in Web Development on March 3rd, 2010

If your like me and end up making loads of websites and website themes it is essential to have a starter framework in place to save you time and give you a head start when making new websites. The benefits of having a website framework are obvious and all good web developers will have one.

So I’ve decided to share mine with you. Please feel free to use this as a template for your own framework and let me know about anything you would add or remove.

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Security by Obscurity is Weak

Categorized in Programming on February 19th, 2010

You should be able to publicly announce how your system is secured without compromising the security of your system.

Discuss.

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New Pricing Scheme and Competition on MakeSomeTime

Categorized in My Projects on February 16th, 2010

Today on MakeSomeTime I released a totally new pricing scheme where you pay $1/invoice. I felt that the old pricing scheme just wasn’t working for the site and I decided to go with something that fits more with the “keep it simple” ethic of MakeSomeTime. And to celebrate I am giving away $100 worth of MakeSomeTime credit. So head on over and check out what’s happening on MakeSomeTime.

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Uptime – Website Uptime Monitoring

Categorized in My Projects, Web Development on February 11th, 2010

The guys over at CodeCanyon have a competition on just now where you can win up $6000+ worth of stuff. So I thought I would have a pop and today my entry was approved. Uptime is a website uptime monitoring tool that can be used to monitor any number of sites or individual pages. If one of your sites goes down you can check it manually on the Uptime site or get alerted by email so you can check your “downed” site out.

So head on over and check out the demo. It only costs $5.

URL: http://codecanyon.net/item/uptime-website-uptime-monitoring/86651

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A Pratical Guide to Using AJAX in Web Apps

Categorized in Web Development, jQuery on February 1st, 2010

I have been doing a lot of work recently on MakeSomeTime and my final year Uni project (which is a web app) and both use a substancial amount of AJAX to power them. So what I want to do here is build on a previous article and outline a practical solution to using AJAX in your web apps using, in this case, jQuery and PHP.