Blog Posts
Blocking Tor exit nodes from your website
I was recently working on a little project that essentially was nothing more than a little data collection form, completely open to the web and theref
Quick Tip: CakePHP3 – Custom Configuration Files
Another in the CakePHP3 quick tip series - this time I'm going to explain how you can go about creating your own configuration files - useful when bui
Quick Tip: CakePHP3 – Custom Pagination Structure
Another CakePHP3 quick tip today, this time I'll explain how you can tweak the structure for the pagination helper. This is especially helpful for peo
Quick Tip: CakePHP3 – Created / Modified columns
Here's the first in a mini-series dedicated to CakePHP3.Remember in CakePHP 2 how we had the handy "created" and "modified" columns on a table, which
Automated testing with NodeJS and Mocha
I'm sure most of the people reading this blog have heard of the term "automated testing" before. Automated testing is exactly what it says on the tin,
Is the hamburger icon really so bad?
It would have been so easy to finish this article with simply: No. But that would have been no fun… Would it? The internet is awash at the mo
PhoneGap and offline storage part 2 – Lawnchair
Late last year I wrote the article PhoneGap and offline storage which was an introduction to using the Web SQL API to store information for your appli
Introducing GTCMS
A few months ago I wrote the post Your own CMS: Lessons learnt. In that post I discussed in detail the idea behind creating my own CMS, some of the th
Application Development – my journey so far
This is not going to be your usual technical tutorial post or anything related to programming (to an extent)… A few months ago I released my fi
Laravel queues with beanstalkd
I’ve recently spent some time toying with Laravel and using Beanstalkd to run a queue system, in this mini tutorial I’m going to show you
