How to get Cubecart 4 friendly URLs on a Windows server
Thursday, July 24th, 2008 Posted in web, work | 2 Comments »Cubecart 4 includes the option to rewrite the standard URL structure into "search engine friendly" URLs. This means that instead of a product in your shop having the pretty awful address of http://www.domain.co.uk/index.php?_a=viewProd&productId=1 you can have it rewritten into something like http://www.domain.co.uk/test-category/test-product2/prod_1.html Much easier for ...
MySQL search and replace
Friday, June 20th, 2008 Posted in web, work | No Comments »It's something that can have you pulling your hair out in frustration but the solution is so simple. Finding (and replacing) text in your MySQL database tables has almost become a past time of mine recently, converting a foreign database into ...
When Freelancing is a bad move
Wednesday, May 21st, 2008 Posted in me, work | 2 Comments »I can't really remember much of the month of May, well not in a work sense anyway. This is where freelancing really isn't all it's cracked up to be. Yes you're your own boss and you can roll out of bed ...
Automotive Photography
Monday, March 3rd, 2008 Posted in automotive, work | 3 Comments »As a web developer, I never claim to be at the forefront of cutting edge website design but I know what I like and what (I think) works. When one of my projects needed some nifty automotive photography, I knew it ...
Freelance Switch Podcast
Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007 Posted in web, work | No Comments »Freelancer resource website Freelance Switch has just launched it's inaugural podcast service, bringing together some great minds to talk about the world of working for yourself, all slickly presented as you would expect. Topics that are covered in the podcast include ...
New Look Scorpion Exhausts Direct website
Sunday, September 9th, 2007 Posted in automotive, work | No Comments »The Scorpion Direct exhausts website has had a bit of a rejig. The news page is now powered by the Wordpress blog system and should be a great foundation for keeping the website up to date with the latest in ...
Making the flickr badge your own
Thursday, July 26th, 2007 Posted in web, work | No Comments »It was something I've been meaning to look into for a while - styling my flickr badge so it's a bit prettier and w3c friendly. In case you hadn't heard, flickr offer a nifty feature called a flickr badge which allows ...
Why the 9 to 5 Office Worker Will Become a Thing of the Past
Friday, May 25th, 2007 Posted in me, work | 1 Comment »The Natural Productivity Cycle In your personal life, when attending to business or working on side projects, how often do you spend 8 consecutive hours in front of a computer? It doesn’t make sense because we lose the ability to concentrate ...
