If you don’t already know what DRM is, you should probably google it. Digital Rights Management is the way in which software companies attempt to protect their copyrights by preventing access or copying, requiring online authentication for software, limiting installations, and restricting purchased downloads, etc. [...]
Read more
I don’t wish to alarm you too much but try running the following script on your web server. <?php //the date to test $thedate = ’2040-02-01′; //create a date string using the well known strtotime $mydate = strtotime($thedate); //lets print the result echo ‘<p>’, date(‘l [...]
Read more
Well this article has been a while in coming. One of the side effects of freelancing is that, sometimes, you have to set aside some of your other projects to let yourself meet client deadlines. Fortunately I have been making progress with this article throughout [...]
Read more
Google announced some quite amazing technology upgrades yesterday, introducing a new search indexer called “Caffeine”. Googles Indexer is the way in which they find and organize the entire Internet into the list we are used to seeing on Google. To everyone that uses Google on [...]
Read more
In my previous article I covered the support the most common browsers have when it comes to HTML5, and how to work around some of the biggest problems you’re likely to encounter with some browsers. Today we’ll be taking a closer look at the actual [...]
Read more
We have all been developing websites using standard computer fonts or as we know them Web Safe Fonts and all was okay, Everybody was happy with the classics of Verdana, Arial or even push it with Times New Roman, this is a quick insight into [...]
Read more
This article is one of a series that I plan on covering, regarding HTML5. Over the series I plan to take a look at various aspects of HTML5, be it browser support, how you can start working with it now or how to get HTML5 [...]
Read more
Gaming is a leisure activity for most people, for some an obsession, but what many don’t realize is that gaming is the way we process and learn within our environment. From the time we are babies we are playing games. Children play “house”, and “doctor”, [...]
Read more
In the beginning, it was boring. And Developers said: “Let there be pop-ups!” And the users saw that pop-ups were bad. Then came Lightbox! I found a similar mention of this around the internet and decided it was worthy of a mention, to me it [...]
Read more
Introduction As we are faced with projects or work from clients we are always asked the most obscure questions and queries, and I know as soon as I’m asked something obscure I try to picture it and then come up with a probability for it [...]
Read more