The future of software development is largely driven by new technologies and consumer preferences. In fact, there are several emerging technologies that will have a profound impact on the way software developers create applications. Knowing… Read More »Top Software Development Trends
There are many ways to incorporate the latest digital transformation trends into your business. For example, you can use cloud-based data storage as part of your infrastructure. This makes it easy to store data from… Read More »Top Digital Transformation Trends
The short answer is yes – if you care not to frustrate, drive away and maybe lose forever a proportion of your audience. …oh, and their friends. I was recently provided with an ad’ banner… Read More »Does Page load speed matter?
I’m using Propel ORM (v 1.6.4) for a new development and came across a limitation with validators. I’d hoped to use Propel validation rule messages to inform my users of bad input, but for some data types… Read More »Flight checking values for Propel
Facilitated by @ruby_gem and hosted by @phpcodemonkey, the first Preston CodeJo was held last night at Magma Digital’s offices on Winckley Square. Using themed ‘katas’, this is the first of an open-ended series of events designed to challenge and extend… Read More »Inaugural Preston CodeJo, November 28th 2011
Sunday’s track choices My second day at the PHP North West Conference 2011 kicked off with Paul Lemon’s ‘Feeling Secure?’ talk. Paul used succinct code samples and made a point of covering the basic attack methods, assuming… Read More »Final thoughts on PHP North West 2011
The PHP North West conference gets bigger and better every year, and 2011 sees the Saturday and Sunday conference enlived by a Friday tutorial day and an unconference running alongside the scheduled tracks. Saturday morning kicked off… Read More »Saturday at PHP North West 2011
One positive thing that has come out of Ideas of March is the number of new posts I’m reading on the blogs I already follow and the new blogs I’m taking the time to read. Rick Hurst,… Read More »Denting from the Desktop – a shortcut for posting Identi.ca updates
A post in support of Chris Shiflett‘s call for a blogging revival. I follow around sixty bloggers and blog sites on topics that include the arts (artists blogs such as Martin Greenland‘s blog); alot of web, mobile, application… Read More »My Ideas Of March
A long time ago… Back in 2009, I examined the way in which courses could be listed and searched for at my University and developed a prototype user-interface to increase the visibility of each course we offer.… Read More »Course Finder, an eventual reality