February 2026

2026-02-04

The best way to reach simplicity is to reduce, reduce, and reduce again.

January 2026

2026-01-24

In my opinion, software engineers should view Vibe Coding with AI as simply the latest iteration of RAD.

2026-01-24

When you are hiring a Team Lead or a Tech Lead, you are not just assessing their technical skills but also their behaviour and cultural fit. These questions will help you get the best candidate.

2026-01-08

Leaders cannot afford to wait for the encouragement of others, otherwise they may wait too long before acting.

2026-01-04

It is time to get my crystal ball out again and make some predictions for the year ahead.

2026-01-03

A brief update on how my channel is doing.

December 2025

2025-12-31

In this episode I highlight the benefits of a harsh mentor, which I believe all leaders need.

2025-12-30

We may believe we are in control of a situation, but it’s often an illusion. Let me explain.

2025-12-27

As leaders we must remain calm and master our emotions rather than falling victim to them.

2025-12-22

Your bias is ruining your opportunities, and you only have yourself to blame.

November 2025

2025-11-26

All software is vulnerable to supply chain attacks, but I believe AI is particularly vulnerable. Let me explain why.

2025-11-20

Much as I am loath to admit it, sometimes you need to revert to task based management. Let me explain why.

2025-11-11

I am launching a new project, Vom Tag, to return to long form blog writing.

October 2025

2025-10-21

I want you to do something that makes you feel uncomfortable on a regular basis. Let me explain why.

2025-10-14

In this episode I will show you how I use Google Gemini to summarize the news headlines for me each morning, so I don’t have to.

2025-10-07

In this episode I will explain Conway's Law, and leadership strategies we can employ to avoid it.

2025-10-02

Most content online, including this episode, exists in a Long Tail of unpopular content that contains most of the material online. Let me explain.

September 2025

2025-09-22

The greatest threat to widespread adoption of AI is human users witnessing AI hallucinations. Let me explain what this is, and how we might prevent it.

2025-09-15

While noble in intent, story point estimates from scrum have been a failure in our industry. Let me explain why.

2025-09-13

In this episode I will review the list of leadership principles published by Amazon.

August 2025

2025-08-28

In this episode I will aim to convince you that every outcome from you team is downstream of culture. Let me explain.

2025-08-19

I often see young leaders being attacked without even realising they are in a fight. Let me explain how you can spot this.

2025-08-11

As I predicted in a previous episode, VPN usage in the western World is exploding. Let me explain why.

July 2025

2025-07-28

As a leader, you must never allow yourself to be led by fear. Let me explain.

2025-07-26

If you can afford to support an artisan, please consider doing so because when these skills die out, they are gone forever.

2025-07-10

The exchange of physical cash involves physical interactions with fellow people. But with cashless, those interactions reduced dramatically. Let me explain why this is a bad outcome.

June 2025

2025-06-23

At the beginning of my software engineering career, the threat was being replaced by offshore engineers at outsource firms. Now the new threat for both parties is AI.

2025-06-16

Throughout my career I have worked with many Product Managers, few of which have impressed me. Let me explain why.

2025-06-10

Ignoring a fire alarm does not put out the fire. As leaders, we must never ignore an alarm.

2025-06-09

We usually think of aggression as a negative emotion, but for leaders it can be a positive driver for change.

2025-06-02

This week I want to explain to you the differences between leadership and management, and why it is rare for one person to master both.

May 2025

2025-05-22

Leadership comes at great personal cost, and a career in leadership should not be entered into lightly.

2025-05-13

This week I am going to share with you the ultimate status report format, and explain why it works so well.

2025-05-06

Some lies are so big, the participants are left with no choice but to double down on them.

April 2025

2025-04-29

Opinions that are stated confidently do not magically become facts. Let's talk about the fallacy of arguments from authority.

2025-04-24

Recently I delved into a topic that was escalated to me, that turned out to be far worse than I thought. Let's talk about leadership blind spots.

2025-04-17

I am convinced that we are witnessing the death of critical thinking in modern times.

2025-04-10

Where are all of the hackers now, and is that culture still alive?

2025-04-03

Early in my life I was exposed to an excellent example of Stoic leadership, but I was too young to recognise it.

March 2025

2025-03-24

The best way to get attention online is still to rage bait, and we are seeing this at an industrial scale now.

2025-03-22

Skinship is a short science fiction novel with a fresh take on the multi-generational space ship trope.

2025-03-17

Rather than continue to fight the X algorithm, I have decided to finally abandon my account there.

February 2026

2026-02-19

2025-02-25

Sometimes your team members can get stuck in waiting mode, perhaps for prolonged periods of time if you are not careful.

2025-02-17

Recently I have interviewed a lot of engineers, most of which are quitting their current jobs rather than returning to the office. Let me explain why.

2025-02-10

There is a huge gap between the expectations senior manages have for AI replacing software engineers, and the reality on the ground.

2025-02-08

Online conflict is teaching us that conflict can have no consequences.

2025-02-03

We are witnessing in real-time the birth of the new access media, and this time it is driven by who controls the social media algorithms.

January 2025

2025-01-14

After over twenty years in the software industry, I feel like users and developers are far too tolerant of poor quality products.

2025-01-06

AI is a force multiplier when applied correctly, it is the horizontal scaling of intelligence.

2025-01-03

Some flywheel effects on social media are bad for society

December 2024

2024-12-31

Wrapping up 2024 trends in technology, business, and the economy, and making 2025 predictions.

2024-12-30

After nearly one year in usage, I have decided to downgrade my X Premium+ subscription.

2024-12-26

The Asch conformity experiments showed how badly we want to belong, even when we know it is wrong.

2024-12-23

The warning signs are there, I am burned out.

November 2024

2024-11-26

It's that time of year again, when I need to conduct many annual performance reviews over the coming weeks.

2024-11-18

A leader starts their management journey in reactive mode, and graduates to the strategic mode over time.

2024-11-18

The center ground of moderates is becoming a no man's zone, with the Left moving to Bluesky, Mastodon, and Threads, while the Right have taken over X.

2024-11-12

This week, I want to explain to you why I believe DEI training is a waste of time, as bias is an innate part of being a human being.

October 2024

2024-10-29

On why it is so important to tackle the riskiest topics at the beginning of your projects.

2024-10-21

There are three main methods of communication commonly used in a business context.

2024-10-08

Cultural conflict is fine (how we do things), but conflict on strategic goals is not (what we are building).

2024-10-06

Last week I was totally overwhelmed, which resulted in me recording this episode one week late. Why does this happen?

September 2024

2024-09-23

I think we need to normalise leaving meetings that are wasting your time.

2024-09-15

For every promoter you will have several detractors so you must be ready to deal with them. Compliment your enemies to disarm or confuse them.

2024-09-08

Politicians want you to vote for them, sales and marketing folks want you to buy their products, while you manager wants you to deliver results. There are two main ways they achieve this.

2024-09-02

I feel like we're in the vertical scaling phase of language model design, I look forward to federated model architectures running on cheap commodity hardware.

August 2024

2024-08-26

In many traditional industries, you will find executives who really wish their companies were Silicon Valley companies. Why is this?

2024-08-19

This week I used Grok to render a new logo for my web search engine greppr, and got great results!

2024-08-05

A great leader can make anything seem simple and clear, because they are great communicators.

July 2024

2024-07-22

This week I will provide a summary of the CrowdStrike global outage, and why we are so vulnerable to such issues.

2024-07-18

The worst management anti-pattern is promising up, and blaming down.

2024-07-08

As leaders our instinct is to help others we see failing, however you cannot help someone who refuses your help.

2024-07-01

We are all convinced that we are right, but when we disagree then someone must be wrong.

June 2024

2024-06-25

Most of us just want social approval for our views and actions.

2024-06-24

Increasingly I believe that the most important trait for a leader is mental resilience.

2024-06-12

We all must strive to think for ourselves, and remain prepared to have our beliefs challenged.

2024-06-11

Success being considered shameful is a sign of toxic culture.

2024-06-10

Ten years ago I wrote about my desire to ease back from Twitter, now I feel the same way about X. What has really changed?

May 2024

2024-05-27

In the early days of the Internet, we thought it would bring enlightenment via free knowledge, instead we have hate, division, toxicity.

2024-05-13

As an engineering leader, I'd like to share some harsh truths about managing engineers.

2024-05-05

The new knowledge acquisition bottleneck is accessing silos of private content that can be used to train modern AI models.

April 2024

2024-04-22

By asking why, repeating back, and sticking to first principles: you can drive your team towards a truthful outcome.

2024-04-15

After twenty plus years in the tech industry, you start to spot patterns.

2024-04-07

The amount of authority figures you defer to in your life should be a very short list indeed.

2024-04-01

After the pandemic, it feels like we are all online avatars now. Do you truly know anyone anymore?

March 2024

2024-03-23

A marketplace for high-quality training data models for AI is about to emerge, and it will be extremely lucrative.

2024-03-19

Today I want to talk to you about the Google Gemini fiasco, the latest bad product launch by Google.

2024-03-12

I often I see young leaders spending too much time on politics.

February 2024

2024-02-23

Humans being fooled into thinking AI is sentient is the same as birds thinking a bug is a leaf.

2024-02-16

If your ideology prohibits you from accepting objective reality, you are probably in a cult.

2024-02-14

Beware of anyone who claims to speak for everyone.

2024-02-09

Leaders, if you help create a blame culture via your own example, do not act surprised when you get blamed.

2024-02-02

Today I want to convince you that you should start using scripted automation before complicated AI.

January 2024

2024-01-26

Today I want to talk about getting better at sales, which is fundamentally about story telling.

2024-01-13

Worrying about outcomes does not influence those outcomes.

2024-01-09

Today I want to talk about automation, specifically how you use technology to automate your life.

2024-01-02

To be a leader you need to be incisive.

December 2023

2023-12-31

Wrapping up 2023 trends in technology, business, and the economy, and making 2024 predictions.

2023-12-21

So many careers, especially in content creation, are already at the mercy of algorithms.

2023-12-13

Grok AI from X is a chat bot with a cool personality that is fun, but I want more utility. Here is my list of requested features.

2023-12-09

When the costs of admitting wrong doing are too high, people will double-down on their current choices.

2023-12-04

The problem with firefighting in an organization is that it requires a steady stream of new fires, and fires are bad.

November 2023

2023-11-27

We lost the spirit of Web 1.0, can we ever revive that via a Neo Web 1.0 renaissance?

October 2023

2023-10-21

The more legacy code your team maintains, the greater the impact on their productivity. Legacy code is a tax, and should be deleted when possible.

2023-10-16

Managing decline is one of the hardest tasks that a leader needs to undertake.

2023-10-15

As a leader, you need to think about how you react when things go wrong. Your example matters.

2023-10-09

At times like this, I hate social media: the ugly side of many people starts to show via this brutally honest mirror.

September 2023

2023-09-30

People can assume that because they know something, others know it too. In a team setting, this can cause chaos.

2023-09-25

This week my web search engine greppr came under a bot attack, in this episode I will discuss what happened and how I fixed it.

2023-09-18

Some thoughts on how to choose a good mentor to help you to succeed in life.

2023-09-15

Sometimes software engineers need to do sales, so we might as well get good at it.

2023-09-12

For a leader, conflict should be met head-on and not avoided.

2023-09-11

SEO-style posts are appearing online that advise X users on how to game the algorithm there.

2023-09-08

I done a cross-post of one of my blog entries on X and Hacker News this week, and got significantly better results from Hacker News.

2023-09-04

In business, to be a successful leader often requires unpopular decisions.

2023-09-01

Once one understands the dynamics of a group, they can influence it from inside or outside of that group. This podcast explores those approaches.

August 2023

2023-08-29

Once you understand the dynamics of any group, you can game it.

2023-08-25

The internet is now the industrial group-think complex. No matter how outlandish someone's beliefs are, group support is available online.

2023-08-24

Paying compliments is low effort/high return.

2023-08-18

You will often have to operate in a hostile environment, and employ a reasonable degree of hostility to survive. In this podcast, I will discuss the darker power plays that you may employ sparingly.

2023-08-11

Tesla are being hit with another lawsuit, this time about their claimed battery range of their cars. The reality is these are range estimates not guarantees, and are based on optimal conditions.

2023-08-01

Tech Leader Pro podcast episode 23: Today I am going discuss why a leader needs to be a great at meetings, and to leverage these opportunities to communicate to the fullest.

July 2023

2023-07-28

In an information-rich environment, with a lot of loud background noise, each of us needs to have our own built-in triage mechanism. Without it, we can become overwhelmed with noise.

2023-07-21

I have seen many instances both in my career, and in life in general, of garbage statistics presented in reports being accepted on face value. Why is this, and what can we do to challenge it?

2023-07-15

In my opinion, I believe web3 technologies like blockchains have a role to play in building a true fediverse, let me explain.

2023-07-07

Last week Twitter gave their millions of users a lesson on the impacts of rate limiting a service. In this episode, I will discuss why that was an incredibly ham-fisted way of tackling web scraping.

June 2023

2023-06-30

This week I read a headline about why its a bad idea for young people to start a company in Ireland.

2023-06-23

Whether we acknowledge it or not, our reputation proceeds us into a room like a forward-facing shadow.

2023-06-16

There are two main ways to discover new knowledge online: active via research, and passive via social network feeds.

2023-06-09

Lately I have been thinking a lot about how much time I spend on my smart phone, and how over time, those phones have become the de facto master keys for our lives. Is that even desirable?

2023-06-02

I have just launched greppr, a new web search engine that has no filters, no tracking, no ads.

May 2023

2023-05-26

As an experiment this week, I decided to uninstall the Twitter app from my phone, to force myself to reduce my time on the platform.

2023-05-25

Leaders need to generate momentum and fight inertia.

2023-05-19

Today I am going to discuss the recent AI hoax that impacted upon the Irish Times, resulting in them mistakenly publishing an opinion piece by a contributor that did not exist.

2023-05-17

Tech Leader Pro podcast episode 22: today I am going share my experiences of working with recruiters for many years in the tech industry, from the perspective of a hiring manager.

2023-05-12

Google are moving to AI driven search, and they are clearly moving away from the ten blue links model that gave them web search dominance.

2023-05-05

Lots of folks are scrambling to build Twitter clones, but who is building a better Twitter?

April 2023

2023-04-28

With the amount of FUD being spread about web3, crypto, and AI, are we sliding towards Neo-Luddism?

2023-04-25

Gamification drives user-generated content and engagement on social media websites like Twitter

2023-04-21

Weekly podcast notes for 2023 week 16

2023-04-18

On why a product owner should reject feature requests that are misaligned with the product vision.

2023-04-11

Tech Leader Pro podcast episode 21 : on how our relationship with the office has changed, from private offices to remote work, perhaps forever.

March 2023

2023-03-30

On why negotiations are much easier when both parties win something.

2023-03-22

A leader should aim to set good habits, not harsh rules.

2023-03-21

A leader cannot afford to speculate in public.

2023-03-20

Business is not university. Your objective as an engineering manager is not to develop rounded individuals, but to ship product.

January 2023

2023-01-31

The economy for online content will be drastically impacted by new AI-based search engines like ChatGPT

2023-01-27

Tech Leader Pro podcast episode 20 : on why project estimates are unreliable, and why it is better to estimate complexity and risk, rather than effort.

December 2022

2022-12-30

A good leader needs good situational observation skills.

2022-12-14

Tech Leader Pro podcast episode 19 : on why you should do a number of quality patch releases after each major release to consolidate software application quality.

November 2022

2022-11-23

Topics can become deadlocked in an organisation simply because everyone is waiting.

2022-11-08

Giving people feedback via iteration is tremendously inefficient and frustrating.

October 2022

2022-10-21

Tech Leader Pro podcast episode 18 : today I am going to discuss the differences between acknowledge and agreement, and how your active listening style might be hurting your communications.

2022-10-04

On the limitations of applying processes to every situation

2022-10-03

On why leaders should cancel bad ideas rather than doubling their commitment to them.

2022-10-01

Tech Leader Pro podcast episode 17 : today I am going to discuss hero driven development, which is an anti-pattern that is endemic in the software development industry.

August 2022

2022-08-18

Tech Leader Pro podcast episode 16 : understanding who you work for will help you understand what motivates you

July 2022

2022-07-20

Tech Leader Pro podcast episode 15 : on the benefits of the scrum agile process

2022-07-18

On why we must not take the results of our processes for granted

May 2022

2022-05-10

Tech Leader Pro podcast episode 14 : on why a leader a leader should let go of bad ideas before they become bad implementations.

April 2022

2022-04-21

A functional team pushes together in the same direction

2022-04-21

On why this World is amazing and you should go see it.

2022-04-07

Tech Leader Pro podcast episode 13 : on why a leader a leader should deliberately create gaps in their team, to allow others to grow into them.

February 2022

2022-02-14

Growing a company from the startup stage to a larger organization presents some unique leadership challenges.

January 2022

2022-01-15

Tech Leader Pro podcast episode 12 : on why a leader should be very wary of something that looks too good to be true, as it rarely is.

November 2021

2021-11-18

Tech Leader Pro podcast episode 11 : on how to get better and pitching and closing deals

October 2021

2021-10-11

A review of the post-apocalyptic book Earth Abides by George R. Stewart

July 2021

2021-07-15

The Go-To Market (GTM) equation determines if a startup will succeed or fail

June 2021

2021-06-19

Tech Leader Pro podcast episode 10 : on how to react when someone quits your team

May 2021

2021-05-08

On why some companies defeat themselves due to negative attitudes

2021-05-03

A review of review of The Firm by Duff McDonald, a detailed historical account of McKinsey and Company.

April 2021

2021-04-04

Tech Leader Pro podcast episode 9 : on how you must believe in what you are selling in order to be effective

March 2021

2021-03-21

In the end it was all to do with a bicycle

2021-03-13

On why you sometimes have to let stubborn people fail

2021-03-09

On why you should stop worrying about your competition

February 2021

2021-02-25

On why Bitcoin is an asset and not a currency

2021-02-21

On engineers learning to say yes when asked if something is possible

2021-02-16

Tech Leader Pro podcast episode 8 : on why you need to set the expectation to present solutions and not problems

2021-02-06

A review of the science fiction novel Genesis by Bernard Beckett

January 2021

2021-01-17

A review of the science fiction book The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin

2021-01-05

Tech Leader Pro podcast episode 7 : on building and maintaining mental resilience

December 2020

2020-12-22

5 podcast recommendations for you to add to your playlist in 2021 to make you smarter

2020-12-01

Tech Leader Pro is a podcast for sharing ideas, principals, and approaches that you can use to lead a large team, with a focus on the technology industry.

November 2020

2020-11-27

Tech Leader Pro podcast episode 6 : on why a leader must be self confident by default

2020-11-08

Discovering and closing software bugs should be as rewarding as removing weeds from a garden

October 2020

2020-10-19

Tech Leader Pro podcast episode 5 : on the importance of building and maintaining trust

September 2020

2020-09-30

On the main differences between Marketing and Sales, and why both matter as much as Engineering

2020-09-22

Tech Leader Pro podcast episode 4 : exploring the dangers of reverse delegation and servant leadership

2020-09-11

On why concise communications are better than verbosity

2020-09-07

Tech Leader Pro podcast episode 3 : exploring what it actually means to lead by example

2020-09-01

Tech Leader Pro podcast episode 2 : advice on how a leader can handle escalations

August 2020

2020-08-28

On why the vast majority of employees in a company are not indispensable

2020-08-25

Tech Leader Pro podcast episode 1, exploring for the first episode the question: What is leadership?

2020-08-16

On the daily grind of stoic application of your leadership duties

July 2020

2020-07-20

A review of Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk based on a second reading after twenty years

June 2020

2020-06-13

On why winning is hard, and losing is easy when you have an excuse

April 2020

2020-04-04

On why problem staters need to be converted into solution finders

January 2020

2020-01-25

A review of this excellent Bluetooth headset for conference calls

December 2019

2019-12-31

On how Price's Law defines how many people in a given organization will be greatly more productive than the average

November 2019

2019-11-12

On why you should not hang onto bad ideas for too long

2019-11-04

On the need to have an aggressive approach within your scrum team

October 2019

2019-10-14

Some personal thoughts based on my experiences with recruiters over the years

April 2019

2019-04-05

On how to remain calm and professional when someone quits your team

January 2019

2019-01-12

A review of Solaris by Stanislaw Lem

2019-01-05

On why leaders need to create gaps for others to grow into

February 2026

2026-02-19

January 2019

2019-01-01

Update on my improved writing schedule for 2019

August 2018

2018-08-28

Announcing the 3.0 release of the Alpha Framework

April 2018

2018-04-01

A reviews of the book High Output Management by Andrew S. Grove

February 2018

2018-02-28

On why active listening via positive feedback can be misinterpreted as agreement

December 2017

2017-12-20

On why I was wrong to think that an open plan office was the worse kind of office, because a shared office space beats it.

September 2017

2017-09-10

A first look at an exciting new cyberpunk game

August 2017

2017-08-22

Instructions on how to replace a Broadcom wireless adapter in a Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition with an Intel one for better Linux support

2017-08-01

On why leaders need to be aware that their presence can influence their reportees to cover the facts on the ground

July 2017

2017-07-25

On why you cannot lead a group of technologists unless you understand technology

April 2017

2017-04-04

On why selected a software development candidate based on business domain knowledge is misguided

March 2017

2017-03-22

All of your emotions are belong to Shatner

February 2026

2026-02-19

2017-02-06

The latest status on the effort to migrate the Alpha Framework to PHP7

January 2017

2017-01-29

On why high-fives all round is not the appropriate response to a failure

2017-01-02

First impressions of the latest Fedora Linux release

2017-01-02

Version 2.0.4 of the Alpha Framework has just been released

August 2016

2016-08-22

In this tutorial I will show you how to install an Nvidia GTX 1060 in an Alienware X51 R3 as well as presenting some benchmarks

2016-08-09

Version 2.0.2 of the Alpha Framework has just been released

2016-08-04

As a middle manager it is important to effectively manage up and down, and not pour all of your energy into one at the cost of the other.

July 2016

2016-07-26

Why handling escalations decisively is a vital skill for a manager to possess

2016-07-05

On why the most important measure of your professional influence is your effectiveness

2016-07-05

Version 2.0.1 of the Alpha Framework has just been released

June 2016

2016-06-09

A list of technical questions to use when interviewing a performance engineer.

May 2016

2016-05-15

A list of technical questions to use when interviewing a security engineer.

2016-05-10

A list of technical questions to use when interviewing a Java engineer.

April 2016

2016-04-28

A guide on how to set up two separate instances of MongoDB running on the same server.

2016-04-23

The excellent retro F-19 Stealth Fighter flight simulator from Microprose is now available on Steam

2016-04-18

A detailed tutorial on how to backup a single MongoDB server with mongodump and restore it with mongorestore

2016-04-09

A description of the sequence of Git commands I needed to run to prepare the Alpha Git repo for the Gitflow branching model.

2016-04-05

A detailed tutorial on how to install MongoDB version 3.2 on Redhat Linux

February 2016

2016-02-11

A major new upgrade has been released for the Alpha Framework for PHP.

January 2016

2016-01-28

On why I believe producing project estimates is a waste of your time.

2016-01-12

The 2.0 release of Ansible is now available

2016-01-09

Anton Kreil on living a sucessfull financial life.

December 2015

2015-12-21

Discussion of the inherent privacy concerns and poor usability of the history.google.com website.

October 2015

2015-10-19

The 2.0 beta release of the Alpha Framework for PHP is now available.

June 2015

2015-06-27

A review of the BlackBerry Classic smartphone.

2015-06-13

A review of the Bullet Space Pen from Fisher, which was famously developed for NASA to work in space.

May 2015

2015-05-23

An overview of the new routes and permissions API in the forthcoming Alpha 2.0.

2015-05-03

Some notes and advice on what to do in the first few weeks of a new role.

2015-05-02

A new core controller should be added to Alpha to handle CRUD requests.

April 2015

2015-04-28

Some thoughts on a WSJ article on IBM adopting agile methods.

2015-04-28

A new graphic novel about Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage.

2015-04-23

On the importance of decision making to leadership.

2015-04-23

A postmortem of a failed start-up Sonar Media from the founder Brett Martin.

2015-04-14

Why writing too much code is a bad code smell.

March 2015

2015-03-16

An analogy on why it is important to say no to customers to avoid technical debt

February 2015

2015-02-06

A list of technical questions for use during interviewing a MySQL DBA candidate.

2015-02-03

An associative array of HTTP status codes for reference.

January 2015

2015-01-27

Progress update on the Alpha Framework 2.0 release.

February 2026

2026-02-19

January 2015

2015-01-15

In this opinion piece, I argue that SEO on the modern Internet is becoming increasingly irrelevant.

December 2014

2014-12-04

An explanation of why I have moved this open source project from Assembla to Github.

November 2014

2014-11-13

A podcast interview with Sara Golemon of Facebook on their efforts to design a specification for PHP.

2014-11-05

Reasons for closing my Twitter account.

October 2014

2014-10-29

Announcing the release of version 1.2.4 of the Alpha Framework for PHP.

September 2014

2014-09-18

Josiah Carlson gives a detailed overview of Redis on Software Engineering Radio.

August 2014

2014-08-25

On why you should not be worrying about hardware for your next web project.

2014-08-25

A review of Flash Boys by Michael Lewis.

2014-08-11

Instructions on how to install Monit on CentOS and configure it to monitor Supervisor.

2014-08-05

Detailed tutorial on how to install Supervisor and Superlance on CentOS.

July 2014

2014-07-27

Why Google Chrome sucks at handling localhost cookies.

2014-07-11

A book review of The Martian by Andy Weir.

June 2014

2014-06-30

A tutorial on how to kill all of the currently running queries on a MySQL server.

2014-06-20

A tutorial on how to disable foreign key referential integrity in MySQL.

2014-06-17

A video presentation by Bash of the forthcoming Solr-based search solution that will be included with Riak 2.0.

2014-06-16

Determining if it is possible to use Redis as a store for relational data.

2014-06-16

Android continues to gobble gobble market share in the US.

May 2014

2014-05-18

Video for the forthcoming games

2014-05-08

May not be the actual Google Nest...

2014-05-01

Announcing the release of version 1.2.3 of the Alpha Framework for PHP.

April 2014

2014-04-30

A quick introduction to using the Memcache protocol with MySQL 5.6

2014-04-15

The Huginn framework for intelligent agents looks fantastic.

2014-04-10

On the news of Condoleezza Rice joining the board of Dropbox

2014-04-08

Internet Explorer 6 is finally dead.

2014-04-08

A great post on why you should avid taking money from a VC fund.

2014-04-02

Great post about deleting code from legacy systems

2014-04-01

On why Hacker News submission URL deduplication is non-existent.

March 2014

2014-03-31

MariaDB version 10 has been released.

2014-03-30

Some advice on how to deal with a person using badgering techniques.

2014-03-21

The ghat the fuck is my social media strategy generator.

2014-03-21

A first glance at the Hack language from Facebook for their HHVM.

2014-03-13

Using the Linux sed command to extract line ranges from very large text files.

2014-03-03

Hydra is a new open source solution from AddThis for processing large volumes of data.

February 2014

2014-02-25

Flappy Bird has been ported to Commodore 64 (C64).

2014-02-18

Some thoughts on how to sell ideas to a technical audience.

January 2014

2014-01-05

A guide on how to use colordiff to achieve coloured diffs on the Subversion CLI

2014-01-05

A quick introduction to the bootstrap-dialog library that aims to plug the gaps in the default Bootstrap modal API

2014-01-04

On migrating Alpha to Twitter Bootstrap

December 2013

2013-12-17

Onion Talks FTW

2013-12-17

Sound files to invoke suspense.

2013-12-09

No Man's Sky is an amazing looking new space simulator under development.

2013-12-06

Some thoughts on hero-driven development, and why we should consider it to be an anti-pattern.

November 2013

2013-11-14

Some ideas on how to manage legacy software systems and source code.

2013-11-14

For all of your kitty needs

2013-11-13

A detailed tutorial on how to migrate an existing latin1 encoded MySQL database to utf8 (UTF-8) encoding.

2013-11-11

The current state of UTF-8 support in PHP5 makes it difficult to work with

2013-11-11

Characters from the Simpsons rendered using only CSS.

2013-11-03

Some thoughts on over-engineered user experience in consumer devices, and why they might frustrate users expectations.

October 2013

2013-10-31

The daily scrum meeting gets people talking!

2013-10-30

An overview of the features of the new 1.2.2 release of Alpha Framework.

2013-10-25

Some high-level notes from an evaluation of Redis.

2013-10-23

Testing out the latest PhpStorm release on the Open JDK on Linux provided poor results (as expected).

2013-10-12

Recent devlopements in social neworks show have increasing invasive they have become.

2013-10-10

Instructions on how to install and configured Back In Time under Gnome.

2013-10-08

Using VistaSwitcher on Windows with multiple screens to get a better alt-tab experience.

2013-10-07

Some thoughts on the movie The Internship.

September 2013

2013-09-30

The end of web development as we know it? Probably not.

2013-09-27

The Picard face palm as ASCII art.

2013-09-27

There are other things a kid could be learning...

2013-09-27

Looking at the various options for cloning all remote branches to your local Git repository.

2013-09-26

Trailer for Europa Report

2013-09-26

On the many varied mysteries of Git.

2013-09-25

Inspected the MySQL meta data to find the table in a database that contains a given column name.

2013-09-24

On the overuse of the term engineer in the computing industry.

2013-09-22

Overview of a class I wrote for starting and stopping the built-in PHP HTTP server in PHP 5.4 via an object-oriented API.

2013-09-21

First look at this beta stage space combat simulator.

2013-09-21

Detailed instructions on how to replace the MSATA SSD in Lenovo U410 laptop.

2013-09-11

SDDs do indeed fail. Just ask Linus.

August 2013

2013-08-23

Throwing out old computers makes me sad. Here is why.

2013-08-12

Exploring my love/hate relationship with social media, and my mixed feeling about Twitter.

2013-08-01

An arguement against willingly giving away your personal content to other websites that profit from it.

July 2013

2013-07-10

A detailed tutorial on how to upgrade from Fedora 18 to Fedora 19 using the FedUp utility.

2013-07-09

Overview of how to monitor Memcace with Monit.

June 2013

2013-06-05

A tutorial on forcing non-WWW traffic to be redirected to WWW on Apache without the use of mod_rewrite.

May 2013

2013-05-29

A detailed tutorial on how to set up Ansible on client and server Linux based systems.

2013-05-20

A quick guide on how to install the Opera web browser on Fedora using yum.

March 2013

2013-03-06

Instructions on how to set up and test a read-only account in MySQL.

February 2013

2013-02-21

Details on how to change the maximum item size allowed by Memcache, which only allows 1MB items by default.

2013-02-19

A detailed tutorial on how to set up a sub-domain on Apache2 that is served up on a secure SSL connection on port 443 using a self-signed certificate.

2013-02-15

A tutorial on how you can set up a simple Cron job to run a bash script that will rotate and compress Nginx log files for you automatically each day.

2013-02-14

Detailed instructions on how to suppress email notifications from Linux Cron jobs.

2013-02-13

In this tutorial, I will show you how to check for TRACE support on your Apache2 server using curl, and then switch it off if it is enabled.

January 2013

2013-01-16

Tutorial explaining how to add a composite unique key to an existing MySQL table, after firstly checking for existing violations.

2013-01-05

A detailed tutorial on how to install Nikto and use it to conduct a security audit of a web server.

December 2012

2012-12-27

A tutorial on how to install the Ratproxy server and configure it as a proxy for Firefox to conduct passive security audits.

2012-12-21

A detailed review of the Urbanpack U01 backpack from Seiz.

2012-12-21

An overview of the features of the new 1.2.1 release of Alpha Framework.

November 2012

2012-11-15

An overview of the features of the new 1.2.0 release of Alpha Framework.

October 2012

2012-10-13

This article explores the difference between a meeting and a briefing, and why most meetings in organiztions are in fact a briefing.

September 2012

2012-09-26

A detailed overview of ticketing systems, along with some suggested best practises on how we might make best use of them on our projects.

2012-09-21

In this tutorial, we will look at examples of running Solr REST API calls via curl from the command line.

2012-09-15

In this tutorial, I will show you how to set up a local Subversion repository with an external link to the central Alpha Framework trunk.

2012-09-13

On some servers the Sendmail program can be quite slow at sending emails due to hostname resolution. In this article, we will explore one possible solution.

2012-09-12

An example of how to use the mail command in Linux to send file attachments.

2012-09-04

Detailed intructions on how to run a network trace on the Linux command line using the tcpflow tool.

August 2012

2012-08-18

Recommended release cycle that advocates focused consolidation releases after every major feature release.

2012-08-15

When you need to migrate a ten year old website with 350+ pages of detailed content from one domain to another, you expect to run into difficulties.

2012-08-14

The Khan Academy is now offering a free on-line course on Computer Science.

April 2012

2012-04-26

Clearing a Solr search index

February 2012

2012-02-21

Apache 2.4 Released

2012-02-18

The beauty of flight

2012-02-16

European Founders at Work

2012-02-16

Kyle Bragger interview on Founders Talk

January 2012

2012-01-15

Micro frameworks in PHP

December 2011

2011-12-21

Alpha Framework 1.1 Released

2011-12-21

Some new features coming with PHP 5.4

2011-12-20

Bucket Explorer for S3

November 2011

2011-11-08

Fedora 16 released

October 2011

2011-10-15

Ten years old today

September 2011

2011-09-20

Restler

2011-09-19

Packing for Mars

2011-09-01

An experiment in promoting a one page website via social media.

July 2011

2011-07-19

An MVC web framework for Bash

2011-07-14

A first look at Metasploit

June 2011

2011-06-29

Google Plus

2011-06-24

The design goals and approaches for adding a REST API layer to the Alpha Framework.

2011-06-14

Vaadin

2011-06-13

An introduction to the new KPI (Key Performance Indicators) in the Alpha Framework.

2011-06-09

HP TouchPad arriving in Ireland in July

2011-06-07

RSA Security Tokens Cracked

May 2011

2011-05-07

Never Eat Alone

April 2011

2011-04-17

Photo tour of the new data centre belonging to Facebook

2011-04-17

PHP - Yesterdays Scala and the Cobol of tomorrow

March 2011

2011-03-19

Alpha Framework 1.0 Released

2011-03-05

Switching to DuckDuckGo for search

2011-03-05

New Facebook commenting system may be compelling for publishers

February 2011

2011-02-23

The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla

2011-02-16

Ars Technica on Anonymous vs HBGary

2011-02-12

The Decline of Bookshops

2011-02-03

A detailed tutorial explaining how to connect to Memcached using Telnet, in order to query the server for statistics and to access cached data.

January 2011

2011-01-27

A tutorial containing detailed instructions on setting up the Memcached server on Fedora 8. The steps included are also applicable for other Linux systems.

2011-01-12

Jeff Atwood interviewed by 5BY5

December 2010

2010-12-27

Dealers of Lightning

2010-12-17

Tutorial describing how to write a REST client in Ruby using the rest-client gem, that talks to the public Twitter Trends API.

2010-12-08

Step by step instructions on upgrading from Thunderbird 3.0.1 to 3.1.5 on Fedora Linux.

2010-12-03

Phusion Passenger

November 2010

2010-11-27

Founders at Work

2010-11-21

Pentax K-5 Reviewed

2010-11-12

SheevaPlug

2010-11-11

Membase

October 2010

2010-10-31

Avoiding the Privacy Apocalypse

2010-10-27

dlvr.it

2010-10-20

An article looking at your options for automatically publishing your website content updates to social networks like Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

2010-10-18

State of the MySQL Community

2010-10-10

PHPMD

2010-10-02

Glitch

2010-10-01

Changing your default editor on Linux

September 2010

2010-09-27

Vector Graphics Icons from Raphael JS

2010-09-25

Black Hat Spam SEO

2010-09-23

Top 6 Most Popular Social Websites And Their Office

2010-09-22

PostgreSQL 9.0 Released

2010-09-20

Detailed tutorial showing you how to log messages to Facebook Scribe from a PHP application.

2010-09-18

A tutorial containing detailed instructions on setting up the Facebook Scribe logging server on Fedora 8. The steps included are also applicable for other Linux systems.

2010-09-08

jQuery creator John Resig is interviewed on IT Conversations

2010-09-08

Some exciting new features coming in webOS 2.0

2010-09-07

MongoDB is Web Scale

2010-09-04

Installation instructions for the Dropbox PC client on Fedora 8.

2010-09-02

Experimenting with Rails 3.0 on JRuby

August 2010

2010-08-31

Facebook 1.3 for webOS

2010-08-28

jQuery Mobile

2010-08-28

PHP on Java via Quercus

2010-08-28

Switching to Bing for my homepage

2010-08-23

Google Wave closing down

2010-08-09

Riak developers interviewed on FLOSS Weekly

July 2010

2010-07-30

Happy System Administrator Appreciation Day

2010-07-18

Damn Vulnerable Linux

June 2010

2010-06-09

Download - The True Story of the Internet

May 2010

2010-05-28

Using FFMPEG to generate video clips

2010-05-10

Version 6.0 released

September 2009

2009-09-01

I Am Not My Tshirt

2009-09-01

Tutorial on how to bulk resize multiple images in the same directory using the GraphicsMagick command line utility.

August 2009

2009-08-27

Kenpo books by Ed Parker available again

2009-08-24

Slash John

July 2009

2009-07-30

David Heinemeier Hansson interviewed on FLOSS Weekly

2009-07-01

PHP 5.3.0 Released

2009-07-01

OWASP Ireland AppSec 2009 Conference

June 2009

2009-06-15

PENTAX K-7 Introduction

May 2009

2009-05-07

Sundry MySQL Scripts and Docs

2009-05-06

Yoxos OnDemand - EclipseSource

April 2009

2009-04-29

Learning from StackOverflow Dot Com

2009-04-23

Watching a project in Jira

2009-04-12

LAMP stack usage at Facebook

2009-04-10

Search as a service

March 2009

2009-03-27

and we just went bananas it was brilliant

2009-03-26

The Makers of Things

2009-03-01

Ed Parker doing Techniques

February 2009

2009-02-23

Dream Office

2009-02-18

A case study in not dealing effectively with legacy software, were staff have continued to use an application fit for purpose without the support of their organization.

2009-02-11

The trials of supporting remote users

2009-02-08

FLOSS on jQuery

January 2009

2009-01-30

What real life bad habits has programming given you

2009-01-22

Trouble in Reykjavik

2009-01-21

Eclipse PDT 2.0 is now available

2009-01-19

Raphael JS

2009-01-13

Not There Yet

December 2008

2008-12-19

Burger King Flame

2008-12-16

How To Design A Good API and Why it Matters

2008-12-01

Validating Fedora downloads on Vista

October 2008

2008-10-14

The Sun - The Big Picture

2008-10-07

Results of the Phoenix Mission to Mars and Analog sites on Earth

September 2008

2008-09-30

Drupal Drupal Drupal Drupal Dru-pal

2008-09-29

Subversion 1.5.x and svn externals

2008-09-21

Working in Space

2008-09-08

Fallout 3

August 2008

2008-08-24

HP iPAQ 214 Enterprise

2008-08-23

PHP 5.3 Alpha Released

June 2008

2008-06-01

Rex Kwon Do

April 2008

2008-04-28

Tips for hiring new engineers

2008-04-27

The Jimmy Cake

2008-04-27

Red Snapper are back

2008-04-10

NASA Spacecraft Images Mars Moon in Colour and in 3D

2008-04-10

Super Mario in 14kB Javascript

March 2008

2008-03-08

Bluebook ad for O2

February 2008

2008-02-18

An Insurgency of Quality

January 2008

2008-01-29

Mozilla Lightning

2008-01-16

Sun acquires MySQL

2008-01-10

Computer History Museum

December 2007

2007-12-24

Experiments with the Wii Remote

2007-12-07

Minn Heima - I Gaer - Sigur Ros

2007-12-06

Nokia N95 Review

November 2007

2007-11-24

Duffy

2007-11-21

Warzone 2100 Resurrection Project

2007-11-16

On the Mat - Short Form 3

2007-11-09

Fedora 8 Released

2007-11-06

Skype Mobile Phone on the way from 3 Ireland

October 2007

2007-10-27

Ultimate Bachelor Pad in Vancouver

2007-10-11

PHP2WSDL

2007-10-09

The Other Side of Iapetus

2007-10-01

Argentina turf Ireland out of cup

September 2007

2007-09-26

Fake Larry Ellison

2007-09-23

Eclipse PDT 1.0

2007-09-21

BBC Documentary Archive

August 2007

2007-08-31

11 Simple Rules from Dave Packard

2007-08-17

Bizarre Star

2007-08-09

New elements in HTML 5

2007-08-07

Comments Re-enabled

July 2007

2007-07-17

Tesla Roadster

2007-07-13

PHP 4 end of life announcement

2007-07-04

Guy catches .50 BMG ricochet to the head

June 2007

2007-06-28

Life at Google

2007-06-27

Managing Humans

2007-06-26

How to hire the best people you will ever work with

2007-06-19

Rashers and Eggs

2007-06-14

Japanese Human Tetris

2007-06-12

I am not a resource

2007-06-11

Tvashtar in Motion

2007-06-01

Fedora 7 is live

May 2007

2007-05-31

The Truth About Wireless Devices

2007-05-30

Microsoft Surface

2007-05-29

LinkedIn Blog

2007-05-25

The String Theory of How to Retain Geeks

2007-05-23

The man who owns the Internet

2007-05-16

d-e-f-i-n-i-t-e-l-y

2007-05-16

A Giant Takes On Physics Biggest Questions

2007-05-10

Updates to AlphaFramework Dot Org

2007-05-03

The Perfect Weapon

2007-05-02

Beverageholder and Cigerate Lighter

April 2007

2007-04-27

Python on Planes

2007-04-26

Changes to the sections on this site

2007-04-23

Test server upgrade causing delays

2007-04-12

Staying safe on eBay

2007-04-10

Saitek PZ08A Gamers Keyboard

2007-04-02

April Fool from Google

2007-04-02

A Life-long Career as a Software Developer

March 2007

2007-03-23

Bug Blackout

2007-03-21

Next release imminent

2007-03-16

Domain re-selling still going strong

2007-03-14

A first look at OpenID

2007-03-09

In flight servicing of orbital satelites

2007-03-08

A Second Look at GIMP

2007-03-07

Spring theme re-enabled

2007-03-05

SugarCRM comes to Dublin

2007-03-02

Looking towards 5.2

2007-03-01

Do not adjust your monitors

February 2007

2007-02-26

Dynamic Force frame Effect for Iframes republished

2007-02-23

Eric S Raymond and Fedora

2007-02-23

Ten Leading Open Source Innovators

2007-02-22

On getting a bus in Iceland

2007-02-21

Learning from the mistakes of others

2007-02-19

Interesting marketing podcast

2007-02-12

Fixed Registration Controller

2007-02-11

A tutorial describing how to use 301 re-directs from a 404 error page, to ease the transition of content migration from one location to another.

2007-02-09

YUI

2007-02-08

Hell for laptops

January 2007

2007-01-30

Fedora Core 6 Special Effects

2007-01-30

Developing on Fedora Core 6

2007-01-29

ASCII art generating PHP class

2007-01-28

Upgrade to 5.1.2

2007-01-26

For all your hosting needs

2007-01-25

Upgrade to 5.1.1

2007-01-24

The Story About Ping

2007-01-21

Get a First Life

2007-01-17

Keep It Simple Stupid

2007-01-15

Advice on buying an ice axe

2007-01-10

PutPlace Dot Com

2007-01-10

Succeeding in 2007

2007-01-06

Personal security via your mobile

2007-01-06

Interviewing at Google

2007-01-04

Great tips on making the most of your LinkedIn profile

2007-01-04

Some display issues with latest release

2007-01-04

Blue Origin

December 2006

2006-12-30

Upgraded to version 5.1

2006-12-30

The Shuttle the ISS and the Sun

2006-12-18

CONMAN Dot Tv

2006-12-16

Unraveling the Second Life hype

2006-12-16

A nice cheep LCD TV

2006-12-08

LinkedIn hits 8 million members

2006-12-08

Mobile Linux from GP2X

2006-12-08

Optimus Keyboard

2006-12-08

Picco Z Mini Helicopter

2006-12-05

Sorry about the 404s

2006-12-04

Update in progress

2006-12-04

A basic introduction to core object oriented concepts using PHP.

October 2006

2006-10-12

AlphaFramework Dot Org

June 2006

2006-06-22

New content and upgrade

2006-06-16

There are many top-quality web frameworks available for PHP, but sometimes you might consider writing your own framework. This article looks at the reasons why you might want to.

2006-06-15

Statistics on web browser usage

2006-06-09

Slippage

2006-06-07

A page containing books reviews of some of my favourite reference books.

May 2006

2006-05-05

Re-launch at the end of this month

March 2006

2006-03-27

Getting back on track

2006-03-07

Delays delays

January 2006

2006-01-31

Progress to date on updating this site to V.5

2006-01-16

E-mails

2006-01-03

Another month and another missed deadline

2006-01-03

Note on e-mails

December 2005

2005-12-20

Server migration issues

November 2005

2005-11-29

On the verge of something

2005-11-11

Google Ads

2005-11-01

Updates on hold

October 2005

2005-10-03

MySQL 5 RC Candidate Released

2005-10-02

An introduction to the benefits of source control using the open source Subversion application.

September 2005

2005-09-03

SVG update

August 2005

2005-08-29

Update delayed

2005-08-02

SVG support in Firefox

July 2005

2005-07-31

New project in the pipeline

2005-07-31

In this opinion piece, an argument is presented in favour of embracing technology innovations in order to gain from any possible competitive advantages.

June 2005

2005-06-29

Upgrades in progress

2005-06-20

Back in business

May 2005

2005-05-20

Unavailable

April 2005

2005-04-29

Limited availability

2005-04-01

MySQL 5 beta released

March 2005

2005-03-26

Running late again

2005-03-14

Feedback Form

February 2005

2005-02-23

Note to Firefox users

January 2005

2005-01-31

Updates are on hold

2005-01-31

PHP Security Consortium

2005-01-28

In this article Intelligent Agents are introduced, as well as a discussion of the possible impacts on business organisations of their usage.

2005-01-25

Referencing Articles

December 2004

2004-12-24

Tutorial describing how to implement an image cache on a web server for PHP GD applications.

2004-12-23

A tutorial on drawing basic shapes in the GD graphics library of PHP.

2004-12-06

PHP for Eclipse

2004-12-01

The top 20 IT mistakes

November 2004

2004-11-27

Running a little late

2004-11-24

Subqueries in MySQL 4.1

2004-11-23

MP3s from Bloc Party

2004-11-23

Project deadlines looming

2004-11-16

PHP and Oracle closer integration

2004-11-15

MySQL 4.1 Released

2004-11-10

Firefox 1 is released

2004-11-10

PHPSiteStats

2004-11-08

Updated to 4.2

2004-11-08

A word about date formats

October 2004

2004-10-29

Work on new version begins

2004-10-29

This article looks at knowledge in the wider economy, and how it is likely to affect firms and individuals alike.

2004-10-01

This tutorial provides a description of how to access MySQL databases from MS Office.

2004-10-01

Rebuilt test LAMP server

September 2004

2004-09-02

A detailed tutorial on how to build a PHP 5 web server on Windows.

2004-09-02

New test server ordered

August 2004

2004-08-27

A sad day

July 2004

2004-07-30

An introduction to the PHP GD graphics library.

2004-07-02

Alas IE

May 2004

2004-05-05

Guide to building custom shapes in SVG, composed of several primitive shapes.

2004-05-05

Sun Microsystems received a $1.6 billion cash handout from Microsoft, on condition that it drop all long standing legal actions against the company.

2004-05-05

Lots of new content

March 2004

2004-03-26

A tutorial on how to set up scheduled backups with Xcopy on Windows.

2004-03-26

New version in the planning stages

January 2004

2004-01-23

Sun Microsystems is set to enter the PC-based microprocessor market later this year, with the first of a series of offerings based on grid processing.

December 2003

2003-12-19

A basic introduction to animation techniques in the SVG format.

November 2003

2003-11-27

An overview of multi-dimensional databases and their usage.

2003-11-27

An overview of multi-dimensional databases and their usage.

2003-11-27

An overview of multi-dimensional databases and their usage.

2003-11-27

An overview of multi-dimensional databases and their usage.

2003-11-27

An overview of multi-dimensional databases and their usage.

2003-11-27

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2003-11-27

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2003-11-27

A discussion of the benefits of click-wrap contracts over shrink-wrap contracts.

August 2003

2003-08-31

A practical tutorial on how to set up a local test server.

July 2003

2003-07-27

Using client-side scripting to detect the Adobe SVG Viewer plug-in.

June 2003

2003-06-28

An introduction to Linux with Knoppix, a version of Linux that boots from a CD-ROM.

April 2003

2003-04-27

A discussion on Overture locating its European hub in Ireland.

March 2003

2003-03-30

A discussion on Google locating its European Operations Centre in Ireland.

2003-03-01

A basic introduction to using the SVG format to draw shapes.

December 2002

2002-12-28

Introduction to the Palladium Project, a new initiative from Microsoft on personal computer security.

October 2002

2002-10-22

How building a relationship with existing customers can help strenghen your e-commerce presence.

September 2002

2002-09-20

Liquid Design: matching your website to the inner resolution of the browser.

August 2002

2002-08-24

Making use of the PNG graphic format, in the latest browsers.

July 2002

2002-07-27

Introduction to web services, with an overview of the technologies involved.

June 2002

2002-06-26

Introduction to Mozilla 1.0, the new open-source web browser.

2002-06-26

Forcing your iframe-based pages to stay framed using Javascript.

May 2002

2002-05-25

Explanation of the domain name universal database.

2002-05-04

Animated clipping layers using JavaScript and the DOM.

April 2002

2002-04-26

FMD - the future of data storage?

March 2002

2002-03-02

Overview of hacking culture and techniques.

December 2001

2001-12-21

Introduction to scalable web design techniques.

November 2001

2001-11-24

Guide to launching your own web site.

October 2001

2001-10-21

Introduction to clipping layers with CSS.

2001-10-15

About the Tech Leader Pro web site.

September 2001

2001-09-21

Are the main search engines failing us?

2001-09-20

Broadband rollout in Ireland, and the wider implications.

August 2001

2001-08-28

Guide to email encryption protocols.

2001-08-13

Using JavaScript to resize images on the fly.

2001-08-11

Optimising JPEG images for the web.

2001-08-08

Stopping e-mail address harvester bots from stealing your e-mail address.

2001-08-08

Controlling a layers opacity using JavaScript.

2001-08-06

Help on which resolution to design for.

2001-08-05

Help on deciding what browser to design for.

2001-08-04

Controlling the opacity of a layer using visual filters.

2001-08-03

Setting up a layer using CSS.

July 2001

2001-07-21

Anti-virus guidelines, with information on the main types.

2001-07-19

Guidelines on practices regarding client feedback.

2001-07-14

Introductory guide to methods used for promoting a web site.

2001-07-13

Basic introduction to the different web technologies.

2001-07-13

Explanation of the importance of good web site statistics.

2001-07-12

Guidelines for anyone thinking of hiring a web designer.

January 2001

2001-01-21

Introduction to the main graphic formats used on the web.