Museum, library and archive data comes in many forms. We tend to think of books and manuscripts, or images of historical objects, but increasingly museums and archives also deal with audio and [...]

As this article lays out, programmers high opinion of their own skills, combined with lack of knowledge, can be a dangerous thing.  

Some websites almost design themselves. When you have beautiful, professional, well-lit photographs, combined with stunning landscape design, the web developer’s task is admittedly a [...]

Completing the MEMSO Shell project has been the primary concern of TRWA over the summer of 2016, involving countless hours of programming, testing and checking until we finally launched on [...]

Launched today … a redesign, and lots of other improvements for the Women in Scottish History website. Take a look: http://womeninscottishhistory.org We have been working with Prof. [...]

A pretty good summary of what’s required by a software development team. The Joel Test Do you use source control? Can you make a build in one step? Do you make daily builds? Do you have a [...]

An annoying bug causes the WordPress dashboard menu to be messed up in Chrome. See image to the left. This appears to be a Chrome/Webkit bug that Google are not in a rush to fix. To fix in your [...]

A WordPress site we administer had the following automatically generated robots.txt file (in a fairly vanilla installation). User-agent: * Disallow: Disallow: /wp-admin Disallow: /wp-includes [...]

Shibboleth (Shib2) is widely used as an authentication method for UK universities to academic resources. For various reasons Shibboleth tends to be  cumbersome to manage – at least compared [...]

Firefox is probably still the most popular browser for web developers, even though Chrome and perhaps even Internet Explorer are now valid alternatives. That means the failure of Firefox to show [...]