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Using a non-breaking space in UTF-8 documents

I’m pedantic when it comes to displaying nested items in a dropdown. I like to ensure that sub-items are suitably indented. My preference is to do this using spaces only. However, the problem in HTML is that multiple spaces are considered as one. Which blows this out of the water. Why not just use a [...]

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You want funky disco? I give you funky disco!

I came across a great bit of Javascript that turns a web page into a disco. I thought I’d package it as a bookmarklet, so you can try it out on any site you come across (it seems to work much better in Chrome than it does in Firefox). Warning: If you are epileptic, it [...]

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Rawr! Moar space! Moar traffic!

Rawr! Moar space! Moar traffic!

Wonderful news! I always knew that A Small Orange (the hosting company that this blog, and any other sites that I host are hosted with) was awesome, but they just got even more awesome!

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Starting afresh…

Okay. So, I made myself a pledge about 6 or 10 months in which I said I was going to be blogging regularly about all things development. Clearly that never happened. So, here I go again, making a fresh attempt at trying to keep a blog.

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