Web Programming

This section is all about web development, helping programmers to develop the best sites possible.

The key elements of successful web development:

Performance - Interface - Maintainability

Live Script Run Times for Swinny.net

Web Hosting 04 Nov 2021

Here is a summary of the time it takes the Swinny.net server to run a PHP script to deliver a web page, over the last few weeks. The site was ...

Using the Mac Migration Assistant

08 Aug 2019

Upon ordering a new Macbook, I decided that the simplest option for migrating my apps and data would be a Time Machine backup (using a USB ...

Screenshot browser element in Javascript

19 Dec 2018

This is an example of how to take a client-side screenshot of a portion of a web page. It's trivial to display this screenshot on-screen, ...

CSS method for adding "new window" icon to external links

06 Dec 2017

Use this CSS to add the "opens in a new window" icon to all external links: a[href^="http://"]:after, a[href^="https://"]:after, a[href ...

NorDevCon 2016

Web Hosting 28 Feb 2016

Lots of interesting topics covered at this year's main tech conference for Norfolk. More topics could be covered as it was spread over two ...

Inspiring talks on "Digital Creativity"

Web Hosting 10 Dec 2015

Hot Source Norwich provided a wide diversity of speakers at the NUA (Norwich University of the Arts), on the topic of "Transforming our worlds ...

Sending email in a secure, IPv6 world

Web Hosting 23 Oct 2015

This is a guide to updating your Linux server for SSL-enabled, IPv6-happy email transmission using sendmail! Here are the things you need ...

PHP-MySQL webserver, post El Capitan

Web Hosting 23 Oct 2015

Apple is very supportive with the buying public by releasing free upgrades for its operating systems. These upgrades usually go through without ...

Switching a website to SSL

Web Hosting 07 Nov 2014

It was once accepted that only websites handling financial data (such as customer credit card details) would need to implement security and ...

Autocomplete in jQuery

09 Jul 2013

This is my solution for an as-you-type auto-suggest behaviour in an HTML form input, using jQuery. Now, jQuery plugins for doing text input ...

Mashape is an API marketplace!

29 Jun 2013

Is this the API utopia for web developers and data services? Mashape claims to be the one-stop-shop for developers to access thousands of ...

Automated Chromakey in PHP

Web Hosting 27 Jun 2013

This is an experiment in removing a photograph's background automatically, as long as the background is reasonably uniform. To create such ...

Efficient, minimal MySQL backup

Web Hosting 22 Apr 2013

When someone asks you about what you do to backup your website's database, you'll probably have one of these responses: "I don't think ...

Tracking online campaigns with UTM variables

21 Oct 2012

In homage to its previous existence as Urchin Stats, Google Analytics supports URL tracking options using the prefix utm_, which stands for ...

Fixed position elements on mobile browsers

12 Mar 2012

Fixed positioning of HTML elements on a webpage doesn't always work on mobile devices. Here's a piece of meta code that is supposed to 'fix ...