If anyone’s been here lately, you may have noticed some funny things going on and pages not working. Well, I’ve moved server and it caused an untold amount of problems. I’ve got a new re-seller account at WebFusion and wanted to host brainfire.co.uk on that. But as I already had an existing brainfire account, WebFusion could not create a new one. Which means I was facing un-avoidable downtime. I’ve had to back-up the whole site - wait - and then upload to the new server. What a load of rubbish! It would have gone smoother if I moved to a new host.
This will also explain the lack of posts recently.
Little bit of a problem
January 27th, 2006 Comments Off
Upgrade to Movable Type 3.2
December 9th, 2005 Comments Off
Not that anyone will be interested, but I’ve upgraded my publishing software for this site to version 3.2. I had a few teething problems as I publish my pages in PHP and as the default file permissions in 3.2 are set to non-executable, these did not run… as I learnt the hard way.
All working now though, and I must say - I really like Movable Type 3.2. It’s a great piece of software with some clever little functions and now has a colourful interface.
Venues finding service
June 16th, 2005 Comments Off
Last month saw the release of our new project: Venues.org.uk. A free venues finding service. I was responsible for designing a clear and simple user interface with emphasis on the search facility.
I’m happy with the results - all pages validate as transitional XHTML, use logical semantics and contain accessiblilty features. I also believe it’s easy to use. Plus as our reports show, many people are finding it a useful tool too! [I'll add some stats soon]
Extracting email addresses
May 30th, 2005 Comments Off
Recently I had to send an email newsletter to many recipients. The email addresses supplied were in a single column of a spreadsheet. My mass email sending application uses a comma separated list of addresses. Not usually a problem, a simple CSV export of this list does the job. Only in this case some email addresses were not in a valid format.
For examaple:
foo@domain.com [foo@domain.com]
I needed a quick way to identify each of these non-valid addresses and manipulate them into a usable format.
New sections added
April 21st, 2005 § 1
You may notice the new menu on the top right opening 3 new areas of brainfire: About, Portfolio and Contact. This has opened a whole new can of worms - I now have to fill them with words!
Further content will be added throughout the course of my life as and when it happens.
As of the latest site changes, these sections are out-of-date and no longer maintained.