May 15, 2012
Over the past few years I have had some experience of choosing hosting providers to run various websites and just thought I would share my advice for things to pick up on. This guide is talking about the smaller end of the scale; shared hosting, virtual private servers but I… [...]
January 5, 2012
Here is one method of how to integrate a Ruby on Rails application and a PHP application or even just static HTML using Apache webserver. One reason for doing this could be (in this website’s case) that your main website application is Rails but you want to use WordPress or… [...]
December 19, 2011
< 17 December 2011: This website, robertomurray.co.uk was PHP and running (slowly) on a shared hosting server. > 17 December 2011 The website is now on a new server and the site is mainly Ruby on Rails Switchover OK, here there are two major changes; 1) Migrating to new server… [...]
August 27, 2011
I hear lorem ipsum dolor sit amet consectetur are in style this season. Er ASOS… you may want to double check your advertising emails before sending. Also see another ASOS fail I was sent
June 27, 2011
I read a very interesting post from one of the founders of github.com who had heard a great metaphor for Agile development; Imagine you’re tasked with building a computer controlled gun that can accurately hit a target about 50 meters distant. That is the only requirement. One way to do… [...]
June 17, 2011
Here is proof as to why you should add a slash ( / ) to the end of a URL to speed up your site, nothing new here, its common knowledge but doesn’t appear to be implemented too commonly. Let me expand a bit, when you visit a website in… [...]
May 17, 2011
I recently took my first steps as a freelance web developer; actually these were less steps but rather poking a foot in to test the water. I found it neither too hot to handle, nor too cold for comfort (luke warm I suppose you call it) but all the same… [...]
February 13, 2011
I have just re-written the maps.robertomurray.co.uk site and the first version is running. The new site uses Googlemaps API v3 and Ordnance Survey’s Openspace for the backdrop mapping and you can switch between the two easily. The current features are just to plot a point, search and display geoRSS feeds… [...]
February 5, 2011
Ironic slogan placement: asos.com doesnt have my jeans in stock.
January 29, 2011
So this post is the first on this website using WordPress blogging software, not that special announcement really but comes with a slight tear in my eye as it replaces my custom written blog application. In the beginning… of my web skills, I learnt a bit of HTML and CSS,… [...]