There are a number of reasons why this blog has taken a bit of hiatus in terms of posts in the last few months. Probably the most important of which is that fact for once in the UK we seem to actually be having a summer, coupling this with my daughter forcing me to watch all of the Doctor Who’s since the reboot (honestly she’s only 4 but she’s quite persuasive) means I spend a lot of time outside on the bike or in explaining the fighting differences between Daleks, Cybermen and everything in between. A slow spiral down the web plug Secondly has been the slow demise of an excellent webhost,...

As you can see I had this idea of hosting my own blog. In case you wondered your here reading it. Now I thought that would be a simple thing to do just put a site onto the internet and eventually the magic that is the Google-bot or the Bing-bot (do we call it that?) would one day swoop down and make me part of the internet (I firmly believe, albeit slightly misguided that if your on a public site and not in the index then your not actually on the internet). Now I suppose before I go into my failings as a web developer I feel  that I need to justify myself. An explanation. I’m a fairly seasoned web...