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After a few informal projects, Conceptric is taking on a more business like persona. It’s becoming my freelance trading name, and as such needs a little reorganisation.
I’m a fan of Test-Driven Development because I enjoy the freedom that a comprehensive test suite provides: without it I tend to feel that I’m walking through a minefield.
I’m frequently surprised by the number of organisations that could benefit from Web technologies, some have moved beyond the billboard website stage to including Internet retailing. Bringing the Social Internet inside your organisation can tap resources you may not have realised you had.
Four months on and it’s time to review progress on the Northamptonshire Bird Club website. Is Drupal working out the way I hoped?
I love reading, and this Christmas resulted in a pile of new books — courtesy of the Amazon wish-list. I’ve been inspired to rethink my approach to development by two titles from this collection. The first is “The Art of Agile Development” by James Shore and Shane Warden. I’ve been introduced to agile development methods [...]
After reading PC Pro magazine issues 159 and 160, I was surprised to find them recommending Webfusion for those wishing to become a web host themselves. My disbelief was due to my own experiences. I wouldn’t argue with their observations on this providers reliability, but the main problem with Webfusion, or their parent Pipex, arises [...]
I’ve been working on a website for the Northamptonshire Bird Club which nominated committee members could easily manage themselves. I decided that a Content Management System would be be best way to achieve this, and being a fan of open source I finally settled on Drupal. I liked the modular approach to the software and [...]
I always like to find and use the tools that best fit my objective. When you manage this life becomes both more interesting and more fun. I’m not happy with the web hosting package I currently use. I mean, does Fedora Core 2 sound good to you? OK, I know, it depends what I’m trying [...]
This is a short and simple article about the way a website is put together. The diagram below shows three components that are necessary to build a functioning website. The domain name. First you need an address at which your users can find your website. Your domain is your identity on the Web, so it’s [...]
As I’m get busier the point has come where I need to get a grip of my workflow. I seem to spend more time working around problems than actually doing any work. The background. I’ve tried using the web server function of my NAS to test PHP and HTML based code and keep the load [...]
The commitment has been made and development can begin, but what exactly are we developing? Guess what — more questions. Who’s going to control the website? Projects need a single point of contact to operate efficiently. Decision by committee, whilst the most democratic approach, rarely provides the reliable and rapid response needed during a development [...]
Asking a few simple and relatively obvious questions at the beginning of a project can save a lot of wasted time and effort. In web development the first, and most important, question: Do I need a website? It seems a simple question doesn’t it, but it’s not as simple as it first appears. There are [...]
I’ve just decided to use this blog to manage some of the content for my new business website — cyberstruction.co.uk. Cyberstruction is implemented using the Cocoon framework, but I think I’ve mentioned this before. Cocoon is especially good at aggregating data from different sources and WordPress is designed to provide both easy publishing and RSS [...]
Recently I’ve been building a website using Cocoon 2.1.9, a Java based publishing framework. I chose this platform largely for the experience with Java and, in a few weeks time, native XML databases. I’ve worked with XML before, often in the form of RSS, and have found this way of structuring documents fairly logical. But [...]
It’s always been the case and never more so than now. Once the quality of your writing was all that could differentiate you from the competition. Adding images lead to download times certain to lose the interest of even your greatest fans. Time and the Web have moved on and broadband makes a full multimedia [...]
Data, data everywhere. The availability and manipulation of information is a key factor in the development of society. The modern era has seen significant advances, with technologies such as printing, radio and television providing access to ever increasing amounts of data. The mass adoption of the internet has increased the rate at which data can [...]
I’m finding increasing interest in the possibilities raised by mobile communications and devices. A survey by Informa Telecoms and Media estimated that there would be over 3 billion mobile phone subscribers throughout the world by the end of 2007. The fastest growing markets are in India, China, Africa and Latin America where slightly older fashioned [...]
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