Not two acronyms you usually see together very often, but I was amused today to see in the source code for Shaun Inamn's site a curious meta tag: <meta name="ICBM" content="35.121865, -85.358774" /> Throwing that coordinate into Google Maps show us a place just north of somewhere called Chattanooga, which turns out ...

I was reading about the current draft specification for HTML 5 today and was slightly surprised by what I saw in there. There is also a nice page that explains the key differences between HTML 4 and HTML 5 that is good for an overview. HTML 5 certainly looks like ...

I read an article today that appeared on the front page of digg about hiding parts of a HTML form with CSS to try and prevent spam. Its a nice idea, and the author claims that their "spam levels ... went down to zero". If it works for ...

Time after time after time I keep seeing people peddling the same old cruft about the so-called SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) "secrets", so I thought a quick entry was in order to reveal the "secrets" to help people avoid getting ripped off. Use sensible URLs for your pages. Try and ...

I was browsing around today and came across the "google-code-prettify" Javascript and CSS code prettifier (download page) on Google Code. If you cant be bothered to look, it seems to be a fairly accomplished code-highlighting script - this is the description of the langauges supported from the Google Code site: C ...

Its been a long time since I've used Wordpress. Working on a few upcoming posts that need to display some data to my surprise I discovered that the basic but otherwise fine WYSIWYG editor is lacking an option to insert tables. Wondering if there was just some option I'd missed ...