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Responsive Web Design

22nd February 2012

The volume of internet traffic from mobile devices is increasing at an incredible rate and with more people moving to ‘smart phone’ handsets, this trend is only going to increase. In addition, with the advent of new tablets and other ‘small’ form factor devices - Internet users are…

Move a file in OS X? How hard can it be?

10th February 2012

After recently picking up a Mac Book Pro for development, I have enjoyed my foray into the world of OS X… for the most part. One thing that was perpetually frustrating me was the simple operation of moving a file. How hard can that be? I must admit, being an OS X newbie, I thought it was just me……

Zero Bundle - Excellent set of free web design resources

21st January 2012

Came across this yesterday - an awesome bundle of free design goodies, with icons, textures, PSDs, etc! The bundle is brought to you via MightyDeals.com, and you do need to sign up to their newsletter - but that is spam worth having as on occasions there is a good deal or you find inspiration…

Flot Charts

4th October 2011

I was asked to look for a graphing library for a web application project I am working on. After looking at several open-source libraries, I suggest the Flot library to the client. It was very simple to set up initially, but there are a lot of configuration options, extensions and functionality for those…

FileZilla and repository directories

29th August 2011

Transferring files with FileZilla, but using a version control system like SVN or CVS? Uploading the version control meta folders (e.g. .svn) can pose a security risk to your website and unfortunately deleting them recursively from a remote server can be a real pain. But there is a simple method to…

Joomla v1.6? upgrade already...!

9th August 2011

I’ve built a quite a few websites using the Joomla platform in the last couple of years and while it hasn’t always been straightforward and it wouldn’t be my first choice, I have learnt to like it. I’ve got the scars and tired eyes to prove it. No - it’s never that bad! Then along came Joomla 1.6……

Linode VPS Hosting

2nd August 2011

I’ve just set up a Linode VPS server and am very impressed with the performance. It is superb value, but probably not for the faint of heart. What you get is a plain, out of the box install of your choice of Linux Distro and the rest is up to you. Still… having set up the server and configured a few…

Font Management? Check out NexusFont...

12th July 2011

I’ve used a number of font management tools over the years, but have found the free application Nexus Font to be one of the best, if not the best. It is simple to use and is very fast. Features I do use often are the ‘font sets’ and ‘font tags’. Rather than having hundreds of fonts active…

Revised Website

3rd May 2011

I have finally gotten my new website coded and online. I hope it provides useful information about who I am and what I do. And best yet, there will be more coming in the next few weeks…
As always, if you have any questions - get in touch.
Peter Lee