November 13th, 2011
Just a quick one today. I've uploaded a change to the blog layout. This new layout offers better separation of and navigation between categories. By using the menu you can quickly delve into the topics which interest you. This should make the blog more relevant to you, rather than requiring you to wade through posts on topics you don't care about. This also now makes it possible...
October 20th, 2011
Yesterday was a big day for Calcatraz. Here are a few of the highlights:
New Design Launched - I got up at 4am to put the finishing touches to a complete redesign of the site. By the time I...
April 26th, 2011
Calcatraz has just launched its second free online offering, Typist, an optimized touch-typing practice...
January 6th, 2011
Anyone watching the site will have noticed that things have been a bit quiet for the last few...
January 23rd, 2010
Recently a number of changes I made to the calculator have been causing a bit of a performance hit....
December 8th, 2011
In an attempt to improve this blog, I'm currently doing Darren Rowse's 31 day better blog challenge. Today's task is to review an existing blog (in a similar niche) and answer a few questions...
August 14th, 2011
I wanted the Calcatraz API to be fast enough to be usefully callable within a single page request....
August 12th, 2011
When XDebug is installed it will produce a file each time you load a PHP webpage on your localhost....
July 30th, 2011
The Aim
I've been working on an API for the new version of Calcatraz (both API and new...
January 29th, 2012
When I cook I like to chain recipes, where the result of one cooking session becomes an ingredient in another. That way later recipes are often improved by the use of a freshly prepared ingredient...
January 25th, 2012
Sorbets are the perfect refreshing summer dessert, having as they do all the ice, but none of the...
January 24th, 2012
Mustards can be both a great condiment and a simple, rewarding side-project. Unlike some condiments...
December 8th, 2011
Looking for a good read? Or maybe a good Christmas present? I spent a lot of this year reading business books. These were mainly, but not exclusively, web related. My aim has been to learn, particularly through case studies, what is involved in turning...
January 17th, 2011
I've recently got involved with a careers website as a bit of an advisor and contributor. The site is The Day in a Life Database, run by my brother, Jim.
The Day in a Life Database is a website devoted to helping people answer that burning question:...
March 6th, 2010
While working on the back-end Calcatraz management system, I came across a situation where I wanted to display strings, but if they were too long I wanted to truncate them and add three dots (ellipsis) to the end to show that this had occurred.
I...
February 7th, 2010
In Firefox, it is easy to create an inline div (i.e. a div which adjusts its width to fit its contents). You just do this:
div#elemid { display: inline-block; }
However, it doesn't work in IE. It took me a while to figure out how to get it working,...
February 7th, 2010
If your web pages have a large number of nested div and table tags you may end up wondering whether they are all really necessary, and whether you might not be able to get by with less. While you could run through your code and assess each one individually...
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