Domain change to ad7six.com
06 Jul 2007
A real short one today only to point out that the contents of noswad.me.uk have moved to ad7six.com. You are unlikely to notice the difference as (surprise, surprise) you'll get redirected automatically.
Xhtml Code Validity
05 Apr 2007
There was a time when this site was 100% xhtml valid. It didn't last long, as as soon as I forgot to correctly close a tag anywhere on the page, or added some beta-ish new functionality, or updated my cake version inevitably something became invalid. I used the Xhtml Validation helper for a while, but the messages it generated got in the way rather than helping. I still use...
Site Update: Version 3
20 Feb 2007
After a while in development, I have updated the site to a new look and some leaner code. The things I've been working on for the past few weeks are:
- Implement full version control for the source.
- Make the site valid XHTML.
- Replace the use of external libraries with Cake functions where possible.
- Redesign the look for the site.
- Make it...
Site Update
24 Aug 2006
Well I hit a few problems when I moved the site contents to
the live server, there's always something that catches me out developing on (case-insensetive file system) Windblows and
deploying to (case-sensetive file system) linux. But hey, now the site is back ;)
Gallery Update
08 May 2006
After a number of people reported that they couldn't see the pictures in the gallery (something IE specific that I can't reproduce) I thought I would update the gallery.
The update is pseudo complete, restructuring the files a little, adding a method "ServeImage" to the Gallery controller (which is a simple pass through for the image file) and I've begun fiddling with...
Gallery & DownloadMe Function
25 Apr 2006
We are back from Marocco, and I thought that was a reasonable excuse to add a gallery to my site. I tried the one from the cake wiki, but found it a bit difficult to understand, so here's a real simple picture gallery.
I also thought I should get around to adding the download function while I was at it. This function will download the files which are currently in use, ...
Blog Updates
15 Apr 2006
I figured it was about time I tried to spice up my blogs. So, I tried out the "Textile Helper":http://wiki.cakephp.org/docs:helpers:custom:textile, and all seems to be going swimmingly.
At least I hope it is, I haven't added a 'preview' function for when I'm adding a blog, and editing a blog seems to reset my rss feed so that my feedreader thinks every blog is an answer ...
Tutorials
01 Apr 2006
A brief note: I've been quite busy lately, but I hope to put in place a few bug fixes this weekend.
One of these fixes is to correct my contact form which, I now realise, isn't saving the text entered in the "From" box (technically the email is from me to me, but of course I want to know who presses the button). For those who contacted me recently with suggestions or...