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Category = ‘web’
Nov 2008
26
Wordle
My uncle reminded me of a rather nifty site called Wordle . If you enter any text, it creates an image based on the frequency of each word. It has various options for colours, etc. Here is..
Aug 2008
5
Simple WYMeditor and WordPress 2.6
I love WYMeditor , it is by far the best Javascript text editor I have used. As I have written before, I use the Simple WYMeditor plugin so I can have WYMeditor in my WordPress installation. However, ..
Apr 2008
24
Website compression
I just found a helpful article about compressing website pages automatically using .htaccess here . This reduced my page size by at least 75%, a big (and safe) help for viewing pages fast. My next sea..
Mar 2008
2
Javascript hacking
I just read an extremely funny article from the States about ‘securing’ websites using javascript, with the username, the password, and the ‘secure’ page URL written in the clear: '..
Feb 2008
4
ESV
I am increasingly using the ESV translation for both study and devotion. Despite its often clunky language, I have found it to be highly accurate, and freely available in so many forms to be extremely..
Jan 2008
24
Bible Visualisation
I found an amazing web page today. Created by Chris Harrison, it contains various images which visualize names, both people and places, in the Bible. My favourite though is the cross-references diagra..
Jan 2008
11
100Mb broadband?
Apparently, 100Mbit Broadband Hits UK . I’ll believe that when I see it, and actually can we have 4Mb broadband, please, instead of the pitiful less-than-modem-speed I get in the evenings with Tiscali..
Jan 2008
1
WordPress and WYMeditor
EDIT 22/04/08: If you use the latest versions of WordPress , Admin SSL and Simple WYMeditor , then this workaround is no longer necessary. I currently use WordPress to publish my blog, and I recently ..
Dec 2007
23
Broadband
At last! The great broadband scam is being curtailed by Ofcom, and not a moment too soon. The old ‘up to 8mb’ line so beloved of broadband providers has finally come under harsh criticism by Ofcom . T..
Nov 2007
6
jQuery UI
My favourite javascript framework, jQuery , has recently released jQuery UI , a set of user interface javascript components. These can be used for displaying websites, having sliding menus, sortable t..