Author Archives: Richard

Drupal 7: Rules Module

Posted on July 13, 2012 by Richard

Drupal is a great CMS for anyone wanting to develop a site quickly, what makes this especially easy is the fact that Drupal operates on a module system, each module is responsible for adding a piece of functionality to your … Continue reading →

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Creating WordPress Plugins

Posted on April 11, 2012 by Richard

WordPress is currently the most popular CMS in use on the internet, it was first released on May 27th 2003 and has had well over 65 million downloads to date, and for that reason alone, getting involved in WordPress development … Continue reading →

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PHP 5.4 Released

Posted on March 5, 2012 by Richard

Last week saw the release of PHP 5.4. The new version has had the following improvements added: New language syntax including Traits, shortened array syntax and more Improved performance and reduced memory consumption Support for multibyte languages now available in … Continue reading →

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Vim Masterclass Part #2: Tab Navigation

Posted on January 26, 2012 by Richard

Following on from Paul’s excellent Vim Masterclass: Tabs post, I thought I would touch on a few nice keymaps that you can add to your .vimrc file to make the tab functionality within vim a little more friendly. .vimrc file … Continue reading →

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Getters, Setters and Magic Methods in OO PHP

Posted on December 12, 2011 by Richard

Getters, Setters and Magic Methods in OO PHP Introduction Object Oriented Programming (OOP) is a very common concept in many of todays programming and scripting languages, while the benefits may be minimal in very small projects, it can remove the … Continue reading →

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HTML 5 Local Storage

Posted on November 3, 2011 by Richard

Over the years there have been many different web technologies developed to allow developers to store data to enhance the experience of the website user. The fairly recent rise of HTML5 has seen a new procedure to allow local data … Continue reading →

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The basics of version control using GIT Part 2

Posted on September 26, 2011 by Richard

Following on from last weeks first part we continue our look at using GIT Configuration of GIT Before going to far into the command usage of GIT, it is a good idea to first configure your preferences. The two main … Continue reading →

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The basics of version control using GIT Part 1

Posted on September 22, 2011 by Richard

What is version control? Any developer that has worked on more than a handful of projects will be able explain why version control is so important in todays development environment, and while version control is not technically needed for some … Continue reading →

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