Last year, I did a few reviews of books by Packt Publishing. This year, they got their own back - Packt have asked me to write a book for them called PHP And jQuery. The book is aimed at experienced PHP programmers who are interested in adding a bit of client-side magic to their sites. jQuery is use...

You know how annoying people are when they double-click on links on the Internet? Here’s the cure - an alert on every link on your site which pops up when someone double-clicks. Needs jQuery. $(document).ready(function(){ $('a').bind("dblclick",function(e){ alert('WHAT THE HELL????\n\nNo doubl...

I thought I’d escaped this one. Everyone in the PHP world appears to have been “tagged” by now. Ken passed the buck to me, though, so I guess I’d better play. Hmm… 7 things that people don’t already know about me? Hard task… I used to be into piercings, and ...

I spent today working on my robot (apart from the necessary hours spent trying to extricate the kids’ christmas presents from their fiendish wrapping). I got the grass cutting blade working. For back story, I’m trying to build a robot which will do various things for me. For example, gra...

I bought some bits and pieces for the robot project. After a lot of consideration, I chose to go the servo route instead of the DC motor route. The difference is that with DC motors, you just turn them on and off they go, but with servos, you can tell the motors how far to go, and at what speed. I l...

Okay - WebME… Before I introduce the first bits of code for WebME, I want to try explain what it is, and why it is different to, say, Joomla, Mambo or PHPNuke. As I explained in the Webworks blog, WebME grew up as a tool designed to do some very very common tasks on small websites. This CMS wa...

I should know better. Every six months a new version of Fedora comes out, and every six months, I upgrade before it’s stable and screw up my computer. For the sake of anyone else who encounters the same problem (bloody nothing loads - Gnome fails to load and Firefox fails as well), just downgr...

For years, I’ve had a (mad?) plan to build a robot to handle gardening for me. And so far, I haven’t built it. This is not because it is impossible or stupid. Far from it - when you consider the task step by step, it’s reasonable, and could even be very important. build a robot whi...

Didn’t do much on KFM this week. I’ve spent most of the time in work, sleeping, or trying to convince the kids that 3am is not a good time to be awake. This morning (got up at 3.30…) I implemented lazy-loading for icon thumbnails. What this means, is that in a folder which has 500 ...

Let’s say you have a hard-drive to mount, and you try it: mount /dev/sdc2 /mnt/hdc2 …and it reports an error. mount: unknown filesystem type 'lvm2pv' Took me a while to get this, but basically, you’re trying to load a partition from a volume, which is a pseudo file system. What you...