Archive for the 'Development & IT' Category

I’m writing this blog post as a letter to many of my closest friends. These are some of the people who are most important to me. I hope they read it.
Many of my friends play games on Facebook. Being a web developer, I took an early interest in these things and delved into the behind-the-scenes [...]

Outputting a C# Hashtable in sorted order by the keys is easy enough. Copy the keys to an array, sort that array, then iterate through the sorted keys to output the Hashtable values. But what if you want the Hashtable sorted by value. For example if your hashtable has a username as the key and [...]

As a web developer I rely on statistics to keep on top of which web browsers are most popular and should therefore receive the bulk of my focus and testing time. It’s just not feasible to develop a website for all possible browsers without an expensive outlay of effort and aggravation. Unfortunately many popular websites [...]

I went through the process of installing Ubuntu Linux last weekend and I want to write about my experience. This will not be a guide on how to do the installation, because you can follow the same excellent Ubuntu installation guide that I used. Instead I’m going to write about the experience from the perspective [...]

I recently came across SQL Buddy which is a very clean, simple web mysql database administration tool, similar but simpler than PHPMyAdmin. As soon as I saw it I knew exactly what I wanted to do with it.
I create a lot of custom web applications and usually the front end comes first, and then later [...]

In the last few years, being a web developer has become a more difficult, tedious process. When the popularity of Mozilla’s Firefox browser drove Microsoft to finally release a successor to the antiquated and insecure Internet Explorer 6, it started off as a happy day for developers who were sick and tired of IE6’s oddities [...]

A new version of AV Book Library has been released!
A basic, searchable web database of your personal book collection. Records the main details of a book, & whether you’ve read it and/or loaned it to someone. Uses Amazon(tm) to fetch and cache the cover images. Organized by category.
V 1.2 Includes:

Logo/banner links back [...]

In the interests of continuing with my new resolution to Get Things Done and combat my busyness problem, I have switched from using phpCollab to using TaskFreak!. It’s much simpler to use than phpCollab and a much lighter, smaller application. Meaning I’ll be more likely to use it. It also has a simpler interface and [...]

This is supposed to be my development blog, and I realized that I haven’t written about what I’m working on in a while. So here’s my various development goings-on.
Projects Galore
I have a bunch of interesting projects on my plate these days. When it rains, it pours. It’s keeping me busy and thrown a spotlight on [...]

I’ve reached the point, like so many developers do, where I need to start using bug tracking software to track issues with my various projects. In addition to this I’m looking for basic project management software written in PHP. My quest so far has been, well, frustrating. My requirements:
It must be written in PHP and [...]