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It's all about the cache

POSTED 1st October 09, by Mike Griffiths.

Quite frequently people, including both clients and ourselves, are expecting changes to have been made to a web site, but when we view the web site nothing has changed. This is often not because the change hasn't been made, but because you're viewing an old version of the web site that's stored on your computer, this is known as a cache.

Everytime your browser visits a page, just like this one, the browser will download it from our web server...

TAGS: CACHE

Programming Popularity

POSTED 22nd September 09, by Mike Griffiths.

When undertaking a new web development project one of the first things we do during the planning stages is decide which programming language(s) would be best suited for the job. All of the different languages have different advantages and disadvantages. C, for example, is extremely stable and will run on nearly any machine natively (without anything needed to be installed), but it requires the programmer to be far more strict in their coding an...

TAGS: PHP, PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES

Googles New OS - Chrome OS

POSTED 11th September 09, by Mike Griffiths.

You might think of Google as your doorway to the Internet. Google is the search engine most people use to find what they're looking for on the Internet. But the fact is, Google is a brand and the search is simply their flag ship product. Google releases new products regularly, they have well over 50 products; some of them are used every day by millions of users (Google Mail) and others are used occassionally by a few thousand users (Google Cod...

TAGS: CHROME, CHROME OS, GOOGLE

Take in some fresh AIR

POSTED 17th July 09, by Mike Griffiths.

Adobe AIR is a new technology released by the software vendor Adobe. The idea is a simple one: to allow web developers to create desktop applications without having to learn a new programming language.

Anyone who has ever programmed will know that there is a big difference between creating web applications (like a blog) and offline desktop applications (like a word processor). For starters they are both (potentially) written in different pro...

TAGS: ADOBE, AIR

The Pirate Bay - The Video Bay

POSTED 30th June 09, by Mike Griffiths.

The Pirate Bay (TPB) is the world's most high-profile file-sharing web site. Recently its owners have been in the news a lot due to them being caught and prosecuted under copyright law by the music industry.

The web site's owners were taken to court, found guilty and sentenced to one year in jail in April. However, they are currently still free men.

As well as the one year jail sentence, they were also made to pay $4.5million in damages...

TAGS: COPYRIGHT, HTML 5, PIRATE BAY

Google's BigTable

POSTED 29th June 09, by Mike Griffiths.

Google is a search engine that many of us take for granted. Launched ten years ago with a simple idea - to save a copy of the Internet. The search engine works by 'crawling' web sites. Crawling simply means that it will visit a web site and then go to every link it finds on that web site. Using this method, most web sites on the Internet can be discovered. They obviously have a substantially sized initial list of sites to visit.

There are...

TAGS: BIGTABLE, GOOGLE

Internal Job Queue

POSTED 26th June 09, by Mike Griffiths.

Recently, I created a system for the office that allows us to manage our work more easily. The current system in place is called Keeno, and works quite well. Keeno is an online system that allows us to mark time against jobs, which in turn are linked to clients; this makes billing and logging of tasks really easy. The only problem with Keeno is keeping track of new jobs and what each person in the office is currently working on.

The new sys...

TAGS: KEENO, MYSQL, PHP