programming

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

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 [...]

A useful one to remember, because it’s cropped up in multiple sites recently. IE (at least up to 9) does not handle z-index correctly. New *positioned* elements create new stacking [...]

Volunteer Halton (http://volunteerhalton.ca/) is a site well worth checking out, mainly for the incredible work they do. As a website, VH (along with the very shortly forthcoming Community [...]

This is a bit of code I wrote a few years ago. I couldn't find any tool anywhere that would convert old-school ISBN 10s to the new ISBN 13, and check that the numbers have been entered correctly. [...]