Since I started selling PHP scripts from my site I have had three copies of one or other of my scripts stolen. I know this because right from when I first started selling the scripts I have had code in place to at least track when a copy of one of the scripts I have [...]

There is a lot of complicated terminology associated with computers that most beginners (and many who are not beginners) do not understand. Someone recently asked me what CMOS is. CMOS

One useful idea for helping to prevent viruses causing problems on your computer is o examine program behaviour and o block or at least query those behaviours which appear suspicious. ThreatFire is supposed to complement your existing anti-virus software by performing this behaviour check for you so as to hopefully block those viruses that your [...]

As well as all the tutorials that I put online to teach people over the web, I also teach several classes fact to face in the classroom. For anyone who lives in Sydney, my classes for term three are now organised including my new JavaScript course. In the Classroom

I was extremely fortunate this week to be able to review this excellent book by Tommy Olsson and Paul O’Brien. I rarely give the maximum marks when I review anything but this book definitely deserves it. “The Ultimate CSS Reference”

I have decided to spend part of the long weekend setting up and configuring a new computer. At some point in the next few weeks I should have some comments on how it is all proceeding. So far I have purchased the new parts I needed, installed some other parts that I already had installed [...]

I recently had someone from Kontera contact me about adding their advertising to my web pages. They had previously contacted me a couple of years ago and I had investigated their advertising and written a review of it but they had obviously forgotten about that. Since they had invited me to join (for a second [...]