Ubuntu: Setting group ID for website development folder
Fun and games with sticky bits and loading websites outside of Apache’s default /var/www folder.
Tag: development
Web Designers and Watch Makers
Web designers ply an interesting trade. They are not just required to possess a continually expanding knowledge set, but are also required to educate their clients on the best approach for their website. When hiring a web designer, consider the watch maker.
Dare not though profane in Amazon
Amazon has user profiles, which I totally didn’t know about. They also let you describe yourself. However, be careful what you say or you might be guilty of profanity.
Bad Address Bar
I can only assume that Google and IE did extensive user testing prior to making this UI change, but I do wonder if it was the right choice for user experience.
Another Thursday means PHP
Thursday has become a regular night for coding and the learning of PHP!
The plan
What’s the glorious plan then? I have a few options for how I’m going to approach this. This becomes just a general place for posting ramblings, interesting links, etc This becomes a blog and a photoblog. This becomes just a photoblog. One way or another I’m definitely feeling quite good about working off my own […]
The purpose of alex.leonard.ie
A quick round up of some thoughts regarding this blog. One way or another I need to justify the ownership of such a good domain name.
Gmail Standards make people grimace
Email Standards Project logo If you've ever tried creating an email newsletter using attractive HTML then you may have encountered a few problems. A lot of the mail clients and web mail providers have their own special ways of interpreting HTML in emails and one of the worst offenders is Gmail. As a result of […]
Web Development Tools 1: Web Developer
The following article is something I wrote for my web design company – Pixelapes. I figured I would reproduce it here to spread it around a bit more. I would imagine that most web developers will have a system of work or will already use this extension, but for those that don't: read on! Original […]