Category Archives: Computing

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.

The Internet 0

Relatively speaking computers have only been around for a very short while – and the internet even more so. Yet the differences they have made to our lives has been radical and unprecedented. For something to effect such change in such a short space of time makes one wonder where it will all lead?