Last night I downloaded and installed a Linux distribution called Ubuntu(v10.10) in what was my first adventure (I’m not counting using Knoppix to fix Windows problems) into using an OS that hasn’t been written by Microsoft. Let’s go back in time In my, almost, 20 years of computing I’ve used everything from Windows 3.1 up to [...]
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MODX – “The developer’s CMS”
by Stephen Hoult on February 23rd, 2011For those of you who are looking for an alternative CMS (content management system) to something like Joomla, Mambo, Drupal and the numerous others then I urge you to check out a CMS called MODX. MODX is open source, written in PHP and MySQL and very, very easy to develop on and customise whether it [...]
Spambots & Prevention
by Stephen Hoult on February 15th, 2011As you may know from reading other blog posts or pages on this site I’m a web developer. This is my job and I also do some at home. You may also know that I used to play ice hockey for the Whitley Warriors until I was forced to retire after suffering a DVT. When [...]
Networking
by Stephen Hoult on February 15th, 2011I’ve been doing a lot of reading on networks / networking over the past few days. As well as being interesting, this reading has also helped to refresh my knowledge of how networks operate – why we use this switch instead of that hub and other things most people wouldn’t know, or want to know, [...]
Welcome to the Political Blogosphere
by Stephen Hoult on May 24th, 2010Please have a look at www.instantpolitics.co.uk. Myself and Malcolm Clarke have launched this site, the concept and code were written by yours truly and Malcolm has used his contacts, blog and inspiration to re-work that initial idea into a political blog portal. What Instant Politics will do: Instant Politics will take the latest 5 items [...]
