by Peter Connolly | Apr 14, 2011 | featured, technology
I had a simple Javascript issue today which (for some reason) took a long time to solve. Basically, I wanted to trim white space from the beginning and end of a string. The standard answer on the internet is as follows; selectedtext =...
by Peter Connolly | Mar 8, 2011 | slideshow, technology
“Friends don’t let friends use IE6” Not me saying that, but Microsoft. On Friday 4th March Microsoft released the IE6 Countdown website, an aggressive campaign to persuade users to stop using IE6 and update to a newer IE. Its goal is to decrease IE6...
by Peter Connolly | Jan 7, 2011 | technology
We’ve now moved KPDirection to our new server at Rackspace, and completed the migration of our smaller client sites. We previously hosted this site at midphase – they were local, and they were cheap. Unfortunately, they weren’t very secure; we lost...
by Peter Connolly | Oct 19, 2010 | technology
One of the major items in our development toolbelt is NetBeans for PHP. We use this for all our web development, and it fits our workflow perfectly. Or, it did. For the last few months Netbeans was getting slower and slower. I’d start up Netbeans, work for five...
by Peter Connolly | Oct 7, 2010 | Drupal, featured, technology
For the last few weeks I’ve had a problem with a client site not indexing all content. Cron would run as normal, then redirect to a page in the website. Indexing would never get past 26%, and I couldn’t find anything in the Drupal log or the Apache logs to...
by Peter Connolly | Sep 29, 2010 | Drupal, technology
WARNING We discovered (to our cost) that this technique is fine for a Drupal site where you maintain the modules via FTP, but if you happen to use Drush, this technique has a major disadvantage; Drush doesn’t parse the if-then-else statement, and so picks up the...
