Craig Sansam's Blog

IIS Underground

Craig — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 16:59:50 +0000

Have you ever wanted to do something with IIS and not known how to do it? Well, my good friend Andy has set up IIS Underground. A website dedicated to simple, easy to follow tutorials for IIS. It’s only been online for a few days, so there are only a few tutorials, but if you [...]

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PyroCMS – Restaurant Menu

Craig — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 12:41:39 +0000

One of the add-ons I have written for PyroCMS is a Restaurant Menu. I am planning to put it on the PyroCMS store, but wanted some feedback before I did. The add-on basically allows you to display a menu on your or your clients website easily, without having to have crazy CSS. It currently has [...]

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New Server – Part 1

Craig — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 11:55:18 +0000

Being a web developer I like to have a local server to develop on. My current server has an Intel Pentium Dual-Core and only 4GB of RAM, this should be enough for a local development server, but sadly, that’s not all it does. It’s also used as a file server, print server, media server (including [...]

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XBox Live – Official iPhone App

Craig — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 10:16:00 +0000

It was only a matter of time before Microsoft released an Official iPhone (and iPad) app for XBox Live. I’ve only had a quick flick through, but it does look quite good. I will put a review on later once I have had a play. You can download it from http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/my-xbox-live/id480914036?mt=8

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Which browsers to support?

Craig — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 19:27:51 +0000

I have been working on a massive project at work, and today was the day I decided to start tackling the relatively small pile of compatibility issues (all with Internet Explorer). I did the usual thing, opened my Virtual Machine with all the flavours of Internet Explorer and set to work, first with the most recent, working [...]

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DevXS

Craig — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 09:37:25 +0000

It’s just a few days away, and I am getting excited already. I am going to be part of a team, with Sam Jordan, Andy Garbett, Ben Major and Jonathan Begin. Last night I decided I would start preparing my stuff for the event, went online and booked my train ticket… 3 hours early… So [...]

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Time Travel, Spooks, Fish Fingers and Parking Tickets….

Craig — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 17:40:07 +0000

I know what you’re thinking… “What the duce is this?” Well, its a blog post, about 3 of the things in the title. The first one was just, something to grab your attention. Spooks! What a freaking awesome last episode? I don’t know about you, but I had a tear in my eye when Ruth [...]

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The state of broadband nearly a year on…

Craig — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 15:14:16 +0000

If you read back through my blog you will see that in December last year I posted 2 speed tests, one from my home ADSL connection and one from my MiFI. Here are 2 new speed tests, one from my home ADSL connection and one from tethering on my iPhone. I am yet again amazed [...]

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CodeIgniter

Craig — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 21:45:24 +0000

CodeIgniter is awesome. How did I not know about this before? All of the websites I have coded in the past few years, I have coded from the ground up, and I mean from the ground. I had written the file to auto-include all of the function files, and made the extremely long .htaccess files. [...]

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So you call yourself a Web Developer/Designer?

Craig — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 16:54:03 +0000

I believe one of the ways to keep “in touch” with the web industry, is to keep an eye on your fellow designer/developers profiles, and see what they are producing. Obviously, you can’t copy what they are doing, but you might find out about new design techniques, frameworks or build an inspiration gallery. One of [...]

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