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How to find and choose a domain name

Choosing a domain name isn't easy, especially if you want it to be a dot com. Why? Simply because pretty much anything you can think of has already been taken! I spent several hours trying to find the name for this website - I must have typed in hundreds of ideas, and out of the lot I only found 2 that were available.

But apart from availability, there's a bunch of other things you need to consider...Read more

Drupal 6 review

Drupal 6 is a world class, award-winning CMS (Content Management System). It is free to use, modify and distribute, as it is Open Source software, licensed under the GPL (General Public License). Drupal is perhaps one of the most powerful and extensible CMS systems, capable of powering everything from small personal blogs to large, high traffic community websites.Read more

One form, many uses - server side jQuery with Jaxer

I'm sure many of you have had to do 'corporate reviews' at work. You know, you get given a form and are asked to grade yourself on various aspects of your job. You fill in your parts of the form and then give it to your employer who fills in the rest. After doing so, he probably photocopies it, gives back to you for reflection, and then proceeds to make some private notes on his copy.Read more

Case Study : Concern Fast

Each year, thousands of people around Ireland join Concern Worldwide in the Concern Fast. During the Fast, people give up food for 24 hours and raise as much money as they can for some of the world’s poorest people.Read more

CSS shadows - A drop shadow roundup

I've come across loads of different techniques to create a browser based drop shadow effect. Some use only CSS whilst others need the help of JavaScript, some are cross browser friendly, others are not!Read more

New Drupal 6 module: IP to Locale

Drupal is set up fairly well for multilingual sites. However, it does make the assumption that each site version will be in a different language. It is quite feasible however, that there be two versions of a site in the same language. For example, A site which has a UK version, and a version for the Republic of Ireland. Both sites are written in English, but the content varies for each.Read more

Getting started with jQuery - 7 of the most useful resources

In recent times, a lot of general purpose javascript libraries have surfaced, making common javascript tasks a quick and easy to implement. To name a few, there is Script.aculo.us, Dojo and of course, Prototype. But, one of the most recent, and possibly the most powerful and flexible is jQuery.Read more

Drupal 6 module port: ip2cc

Another Drupal 6 module port in the bag. This time for the IP to Country module, which provides a simple API for retrieving country information such as country code, country name, flag, network name, and autonomous system number by given IP address.

New Drupal 6 module: Ubercart Fee

I've been using Ubercart pretty heavily over the past couple of months, and whist I think its a really great bit of software, it still doesn't do all that I need it to out of the box. I wanted the ability to add one off fees to products. Booking fees, registration fees, materials fee etc.Read more

Running server side processes via JavaScript with Jaxer

Last week I wrote a short introductory article about Aptana's Jaxer. Today I want to follow on from there and introduce one of the new features that has been added in Jaxer 1.0.Read more

Nginx proxy to Apache - access remote host IP address using mod_praf

These days it i getting more and more common for people to use a lightweight webserver such as lighttpd or nginx as a frontend, and proxy to an Apache backend if they really need to.Read more