Category Archives: Computing

wNOP no longer maintained 4

Largely because I am no longer a Puppy user (read this for an explanation) I will no longer be actively developing wNOP :(

Why I left Puppy Linux 5

As some of you may know I am, albeit to a lesser extent now, a huge fan of Puppy Linux and I was, up until last October, actively involved in the community. So why the change of heart?

Nine to Five (thirty) 0

So I got a job working for a local web development company called 2bebrave, they’re a fairly new company and I make the numbers up to 3. We do all the usual stuff; design, hosting, programming, SEO and so on, I would of course highly recommend our services. Our offices are at the Create Centre, [...]

The future of tombh 0

Through the Prince’s Trust I have been assigned a mentor to help me with my business, his name is Jimi Ogunnusi, managing director of BQM Consulting. He’s a very nice man and I feel really privileged to be able to share time with him. After our first meeting he suggested I write down my future [...]

HTML Parsing and DIY RSS feeds 0

A PHP library that I think more people should know about is SC Chen’s Simple HTML DOM Parser.

Just a site that's caught my eye 0

Well a site that has caught my interest recently in terms of design is Skype’s. Of course, I’m in to simplicity, web standards and whatnot and I think Skype’s website is a great example of modern technical standards integrated with a cool contemporary design.

Simplate — a very simple PHP templating system 5

I have designed a very simple PHP templating system called Simplate, you can download it from here (edit: and you can view a demo of it here). Instructions on how to use it are contained within the Readme.txt file.

CSS Rounded Corners 10

CSS Rounded Corners — Using only one image file!
There are lots of tutorials on this subject, yet most of the one’s you see require the use of four separate images, which means a lot of fiddly photoshop work; cutting, pasting, naming and saving — all times four.

Something about Puppy Linux 10

I am just about to release the second (and hopefully stable) version of a little project I’ve been doing in Puppy Linux. It has been a complicated and fascinating project, and one that has taught me an awful lot about Puppy Linux, but it has also taught me a lot about Linux, Microsoft and computers [...]

How holes make websites 0

Okay, so lets go back to the beginning. Even the spear and the wheel were groundbreaking inventions at some point! Sometimes it seems like computers are magic but it’s really just lots of little bits coming together — little bits that are no different in functionality to wheels and spears.