Web Programming

Media Temple Proactive Against DoS
[18 January 2010 22:22]
I have some mixed opinions of Media Temple tonight. On the one hand, I was completely unable to access swinny.net (IMAP/SSH/HTTP) or domains ...
Google's Spooky Robots
[31 October 2009 11:58]
Google has enhanced their robots.txt file, in a hope of getting more treats and fewer tricks. Let's see if the kids do as they're told! Judging ...
Memcached and PHP
[22 October 2009 17:44]
There are plenty of resources out there on getting PHP and memcache to work together, and a basic installation and configuration should pose ...
Video Sitemaps For Google Search
[10 August 2009 19:30]
Read about creating Google video sitemaps
Fresh Start for Swinny.net @MediaTemple
[31 May 2009 15:00]
Swinny.net has been hosted on MyServerWorld.com (previously part of HostEurope, now Pipex) for many years, since 2001 in fact. Performance and ...
Alert! Domain Renewal Group on the Prowl
[20 May 2009 18:57]
Be on your guard! The Domain Renewal Group sends renewal letters to domain holders, when domains are nearing their renewal date. The letters ...
OAuth so Awful!
[24 April 2009 08:51]
In the space of a fortnight, Twitter has suffered two nasty vulnerabilites that allow unauthorised account access. First it was a user's ability ...
Swinny.net Looks a Little Different
[22 April 2009 23:03]
This web site has been revamped - but only from the front end. I have tidied up the header and made the colour scheme more neutral. I have ...
Social Graph API - Google
[04 February 2008 20:28]
http://code.google.com/apis/socialgraph/ This is a service defined and provided by Google. Google stores public information on users and ...
Google Webmaster Central Stats
[24 January 2008 21:51]
Search Query Statistics from the Webmaster Central Team show that they rank in the top five for numerous terms such as sitelinks, google webmaster ...
Google Toolbar Will Fix It!
[20 December 2007 22:10]
The latest version of Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer (beta) tries to correct errors when a page is requested. If the page returns a 404 ...
The Amazon SimpleDB API
[20 December 2007 21:41]
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ProgrammableWeb/~3/201467074/ Amazon has launched their latest infrastructure API, SimpleDB. It's pay-as-you ...
OpenSocial Shindig Released
[20 December 2007 21:25]
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ProgrammableWeb/~3/202540280/ The plot thickens. Google has released Shindig as an SVN repository, used to ...
Running Apache on Windows
[07 May 2005 21:35]
This is nowadays a pretty harmless experience, at least for development purposes. However, there are a few caveats along the way. Getting ...
Handy CSS Templates
[29 November 2005 20:30]
Here are some useful CSS-based templates, including a box that is totally fixed to the centre of the window - horizontally and vertically. ...

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