jQuery $(document).ready alternatives

You will no doubt already know that the $(document).ready function is jQuery’s way of executing your JavaScript code after the DOM has finished loading. The standard use looks like this: $(document).ready(function(){ // your code here }); Other JavaScript libraries have … Continue reading →

How do you make money from a personal blog?

In my last blog post I boldly told the world that I am going to give away any money I make from this blog to charity. Having made this announcement I felt warm & fuzzy and ultimately very smug. This … Continue reading →

Blogging for knowledge, love and money?

I recently declared my intentions to blog more regularly and even managed to inspire (bully) a few others to join in too. Ever since that moment I have been asking myself why. Why do I blog and why do I … Continue reading →

A midsummers blogging resolution

Today is the 1st of July 2011 and I realise I have not written anything on here for, erm, years. So today I made a resolution to blog at least twice every month. For someone who averages around one blog … Continue reading →

Embrace your inner stats whore and attract better quality traffic to your website

I am increasingly addicted to checking the statistics of websites that I run. One of my regular habits is checking the top search queries. Much to my amusement this was in the top ten searches for yesterday Continue reading →

Implement rev=”canonical” and become supercool

Implementing rev=”canonical” involves specifying a shorter url for each of your web pages so that people don’t have to rely on 3rd party sites to shorten your urls Continue reading →

Proper Web Developers don’t need a framework for CSS

About a year ago I dismissed CSS Frameworks as a fad and and largely unnecessary. They just didn’t feel right to me… Continue reading →

Personalising website commenting with Gravatars

Gravatars have been on my list of things to look into for sometime and I have finally implemented it for this site. I must admit I am kicking myself for leaving it so long; Gravatars are easy to implement and … Continue reading →

HTML Purifier: an open source filter library

Safely dealing with user input is a tricky business especially when you want to allow some HTML. This is not a new problem and there are many existing solutions out there, most notably, BB CODE & Markdown. HTML Purifier is a HTML filtering library Continue reading →