Archive for the ‘ web dev ’ Category

Flomo iphone app

A few weeks ago I decided to start playing around with iPhone app development. It would, I thought, be a relatively straightforward thing. Even small children could do it. But what to choose as a test project? Perhaps something stupid that made some kind of farty noise each time you shook your iPhone? Nah… build something [ READ MORE ]

Drupal in perspective

Drupal prides itself on its community aspect. And so it should as a truly open source system. One of the good things to come out of this is the principle that dissenting voices should be given a platform. Hopefully what they say gets taken on board too. A talk titled ‘Why I hate Drupal’ at [ READ MORE ]

Drupal for education

Just noticed a Drupal for Education event going on at Sun's offices in London, on 14th May: http://www.drupal.org.uk/event/drupal-education-may-2009/14-may-2009[ READ MORE ]

Pro Drupal Development 2nd Edition by John K. VanDyk

If you want to get at all serious about taking Drupal beyond a simple installation, Pro Drupal Development is going to be a massive help to you. If you’re anything like me you’ll come back to it again and again for reference and to try out some new ideas.  It covers all kinds of development areas such as [ READ MORE ]

Using Drupal by Angela Byron

Using Drupal is a great little book if you’re just starting out with Drupal, and want to know which modules could be useful for you. If you’re getting into true development stuff and want to play around with Drupal a bit more, the excellent Pro Drupal Development by John VanDyk would be a much better choice. This [ READ MORE ]

Wordpress MU and user registration grief

Wordpress MU (WPMU) is a great tool. It’s basically a fork from the main Wordpress software that lets you set up and maintain potentially vast numbers of blogs from a single codebase. It’s particularly popular with universities and HE institutions, such as Harvard Law School (http://blogs.law.harvard.edu), and a range of UK universities including here at Kent. Why [ READ MORE ]

wordpress mu XSRF

Cross-site request forgery (XSRF). It’s something that’s becoming a big issue in internet security, and yet is still relatively poorly understood by many developers. If you don’t already know what it is, you can find an excellent introduction in wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XSRF In a nutshell, anything on your website is a security risk if it lets someone modify [ READ MORE ]

Review of Panic’s Coda – One-Window Web Development for Mac OS X

I’ve recently been trialling Coda, Panic’s web development environment for Mac OSX. It currently costs $99 (about £65 at current rates) per licence, and offers a fully-featured 15-day trial before you burn your money. The version I’m looking at here is 1.6.2. Coda sells itself as offering a complete environment for all-round web developers: somewhere to [ READ MORE ]

Wordpress MU 2.7 released

Finally, after much holding of breath and anticipation, Wordpress 2.7 and its swanky interface comes to MU-world. Yay! As is typical with the quasi-underground nature of Wordpress MU, version 2.7 wasn’t so much announced as… became apparent. ie. if you happened to download it you’d find the version number was different. A Wordpress MU forum thread showed [ READ MORE ]

wordpress mu and akismet: wordpress_API_key problems

A big problem for any blogger is spam comments, and the Akismet plugin for Wordpress is basically an essential item. It does its job really well, and on this blog I’m only aware of the occasional bit of spam. Hoorah for Akismet! But things aren’t quite so smooth if you need to do strange, weird things [ READ MORE ]

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