Web Development

The developers at Digg have come up with an interesting way to speed up load times of high performance websites. They have taken the idea that reducing the number of HTTP requests per page speeds up website performance, and come up with a technique called MXHR (Multipart…

Following the principles of progressive enhancement I am going to show you some CSS3 techniques which I have been using in my sites recently and which I would encourage you to start using as well.

When you run websites one thing you always need to keep in mind is not just backing up your files but also backing up your database. Recently I went through this process with my website host MediaTemple.net who are a great…

After reading David Walsh’s “Retrieve, Cache, and Display Your FeedBurner Subscriber Count” post I was inspired to expand on the example he had created and created my own simple PHP caching class. To be honest I was amazed at the results. So I’ve…

For a while now I’ve wondered if there is an easy way to “AJAXify” forms without taking away from the semantics and functionality of a normal HTML form. So I came up with a simple solution powered by jQuery. The main aim here is to be able to just drop the…

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…

Transmit 4 After seeing @panic’s Transmit 4 I really wish someone would develop software that looks and works that good on Windows.

After much tinkering with my default template CSS style-sheet I have come up with something which I think is fairly elegant and extensible. It includes a modified version of Eric Meyers CSS Reset followed by a set of my own CSS rules for default elements which have evolved over the past few…