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Butterfly effect strikes again! An explosion in America causes my sites to go down!

Ongoing Projects

Microcyte Content Management System
Microcyte is a PHP/javascript based website Content Management System. Its main feature is direct inline in-place editing of content.
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Snatch (Mac OS X)
Snatch is a website scraping tool which can be used to retrieve links, images and email addresses from a given webpage and linked pages.
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Distribution (Mac OS X)
Distributions is a mailing list management tool for Mac OS X. It features support for Multiple Classifications and some CRM functions.
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??? (Mac OS X)
This is a new project I am working on for OS X (leopard). more soon!
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Thanks all!
A quick thanks to everyone who helped with or attended my wedding as a guest at the weekend!
Amazon EC2 and S3
A look at Amazon's EC2 and S3 cloud hosting services
Google App Engine
In this article I'll be taking a look at Google's entry to the Cloud Hosting arena
Cloud Hosting
You may already have heard of Cloud Computing, Cloud Hosting is an exciting extension of this relatively new area.
Back Online!
I'm now back online after an outage in America caused my Hosting Provider some downtime.
Batch WMA conversion for iTunes
Recently I had to convert a shed load on WMA's to work with iTunes on a Mac, heres how I did it at no cost.
MicroCyte - The Database Question
As I work towards the 2.0 release of MicroCyte I wonder whether I should scrap XML/static files in favor of a database?
Review - iMac 24 inch
I've recently had the opportunity make extensive use of a 24" iMac 2.8Ghz, here's what I thought!
Gig Review - Nizlopi
Recently I went to see Nizlopi perform at the Norwich arts centre, here's what I thought
MicroCyte Released
MicroCyte has been released! head on over to microcyte.co.uk to checkout the demo and download your copy!
Microcyte Gets Firefox Support
Very soon Firefox 3 will be released. This update will mean support for Microcyte CMS.
Site Update - Big things coming
Regulars may have noticed that the site has been quiet for the last few days, click through to find out why!
Microcyte gets comments engine
In the last couple of days I've implemented a comments plugin for my Microcyte CMS
Implementing a Dynamic SQL module
In Part 3 of building a DAL in Classic ASP I look at how I implemented my Dynamic SQL module to fulfull my DAL requirements
Dynamic SQL as a Data Access Layer
In part 2 of building a DAL in Classic ASP I look at how to create a functional Dynamic SQL module.
Data Access Layers in Classic ASP
Classic ASP is not known for its rich data access tools, so I look at how you can build a strong Data Access Layer.
Scripting languages vs frameworks
Are there compelling reasons for an old school scripting house to move to a new fangled framework?
HTML 5 working draft announced
After 9 months of work, the W3C has published the first working draft of HTML 5.
Increasing turnover with e-shots
E-shots can help drive targeted traffic to your website, but how do you avoid making them look like SPAM?
Introduction to A/B testing
A/B testing can be used to dramically increase conversions on your e-commerce site. Here is basic overview.
Security - Social Engineering
In the final part of 'how websites get hacked' I'm going to look at Social Engineering, the non technical hack.
Security - XSS and SQL injection
In part 2 of 'how sites get hacked' we look at XSS and SQL Injection

I'm Back!

Some people may have seen the following link:
 
>http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/01/the_planet_houston_data_center_fire/
 
This fire knocked me offline for the last four days so sorry for the apparent disappearance!
 
To celebrate my return I'm going to be working on technical articles for Google App Engine and other cloud hosting solutions over the next week. If you've got ideas for anything you'd like me to cover in general then please let me know!
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