just a handsome web developer talking about marketing, software, blogging, seo and making money

This is me. I'm a 27 year old web
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from near London.

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I've been running this blog since 2006
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• How to get Concrete5 DatabaseItemList to order MySQL results by random

  I encountered this today, so thought I'd share it.Concrete5's DatabaseItemList has some marvelous functionality and useful helpers.  However, the only handle it gives you for sorting is the native $this->sortBy(column, direction) function.  So how do you make it random?Like this: $this->sortBy('RAND()', 1); Hope this helps someone,...

• How to fix Concrete5 edit regions being incorrectly aligned under Zurb Foundation CSS

  I have recently integrated a website built using Zurb's Foundation CSS into the Concrete5 CMS and there was a very obvious problem.When in edit mode, every single editable region was off by about 40px which made getting the context menu for administering pages rather difficult.Fortunately the solution was very straight forward; Foundation puts a relative...

• Review: iTunes Match - all of your music in the cloud, accessible anywhere

  One of the biggest problems music lovers have is the distribution of their media.  I have two iPhones, an iPod classic, an iPad, a desktop PC and Macbook Pro.  I invariably want all of my music with me at all times, but we know that's not possible.  I have something like 17,000 MP3 files and, for a while, Spotify helped me satisfy the...

• Review: DBNinja - a web based MySQL management tool to rival PhpMyAdmin?

  As a web developer I'm very familiar with the myriad of SQL management tools that exist.  Sure, everyone should know how to use their nominated SQL engine of choice from the command line (henceforth I'm going to refer to MySQL as it is mine), but we all know that tools make life easier.As such, I was contacted to review DBNinja - a web-based application...

• So why did Apple drop Google Maps? I imagine Google requested it.

  Today I picked up my iPhone 5 (review coming soon), along with over a million other people.  Despite the vast improvements in every area of IOS6, people have been disproportionately losing their shit over it.  But why have Apple replaced Google Maps?  Here are my thoughts on the matter.So there's absolutely no debating how good Google...

• Samsung anti iPhone 5 advert devalues their entire proposition

  It won't have escaped your attention that Apple announced the iPhone 5 this week.  While this isn't really a post about how I received that announcement, I'll include a little about it.  This post is about the subsequent reaction from both the community and competitors.  Notably, Samsung's response.An iPhone release is always going to...

• This Samsung vs. Apple legal battle is just another mechanism to get you to buy smartphones

  As I'm sure you are, I'm getting unbelievably tired of reading biased, pointless, borderline satirical commentary about the ongoing Apple vs. Samsung legal battle.As a means of providing a rather dumbed down account of events: Apple sue Samsung for patent infringment, having registered generic technology and UI patents in reference to the iPhone and...

• So why did Apple drop Google Maps? I imagine Google requested it.
• Samsung anti iPhone 5 advert devalues their entire proposition
• This Samsung vs. Apple legal battle is just another mechanism to get you to buy smartphones
• Is the death of SEO likely? Or is the future long and bright?
• Why you should never quote Alexa, Quantcast, Compete numbers to me and why those services are useless
• How to get multiple responses from a single AJAX call (jQuery, JSON and PHP)
• Review: HitTail - learn about your long tail and get more search engine traffic
• How to 301 redirect non-www to www using an htaccess file
• Outsourcing your digital projects: understanding what you still need "us" for
• Rejecting paid reviews - the ethical dilemma. Tonight I did, and here's why...
• Concrete5: The best open source CMS you aren't using yet
• Review: Online Logo Maker (and the online icon maker)
• Goodbye Steve Jobs - inventor, innovator and icon
• 100+ awesome free and open source applications
• 30 things you need to do to be a great web developer
• Leaving 9rules: finally removed the leaf. My thoughts on 9rules now.
• Top 10 reasons why I'm in love with Disqus and why you should consider using it too
• How to import comments into Disqus using the generic WXR XML format
• Review: Premium Fans - a company who sell you Facebook fans
• How Google suddenly made search results socially voted
• The pros and cons of migrating from shared hosting to having your website on Amazon S3
• Review: easily customisable Flash map from Flash World Maps
• Reports show Google is 90-95% of the search engine market

• Convurgency