Facebook has opened up its commenting system to all websites. What this means is that there is no need for a website owner to develop, run and moderate their own comments platform, and they will also be able to benefit from the comments being ... (more)
Impartiality in the heating oil domestic market can be as slippery to grasp as the heating oil itself. Last time you visited a heating oil website that offered oil quotes, did you know which company was actually quoting you? And when you ... (more)
Twitter has added a new string to its impressive API collection, and this one is aimed squarely at web publishers who republish tweets. With a bit of (very simple) HTML and a Javascript inclusion, we can create links that favorite, retweet ... (more)
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 (more)
MySQL Programming MySQL is a fantastic platform to learn database programming, and is also used by lots of very large and fast websites. If you want to get stuck into dynamic web sites, then you could do far worse than the highly popular ... (more)
News Items That Might Be Of Interest! Here are news items sourced from various handpicked high-quality websites. I choose to select the best of these for commentary elsewhere on Swinny.net. (more)
There are lots and lots of options nowadays for recording your parkrun, and the prices vary enormously. Even within the Garmin stable you could pay from under £50 for a fully working second-hand unit, to £500 or more for the latest ... (more)
What do you do when you acquire your first smart-phone and get confused about apps? How do you know which ones are any good and which ones are just a waste of money? Here is a summary of apps that people have found useful: TomTom ... (more)
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Sustainable Living Living off the Land, that's what most people would call sustainable living. However, most people in the UK will be unable to achieve this, but what measures can we take to make the most of what we have, so that we throw ... (more)