Web design

I spent all day yesterday struggling with Apache rewrite rules in an effort to make my old movable type urls work. Rewrite rules aren’t really the easiest things in the world and I was thinking that by now, someone would have written a javascript tool that let you paste in the urls you want to [...]

The new software is installed, bedded in and relatively happy. I’ve got all the old links redirecting to the new links, gallery integrated properly with wordpress (something which was lost in the last movable type upgrade) and some cool twitter and google reader integrations happening. My feedburner feeds are good, google site maps are fine [...]

Had an cool discussion about social networking with Cedric at work the other day and one of the interesting things I got out of it was that he was pretty much using the google suite for everything – word documents, email, calendar, and even google reader. I had tried google reader when it first came [...]

Come aboard, we’re expecting you! Yes, amyo is a geek has suffered from neglect this year. Guilty! About a month ago I decided to do something with it again and was going to give it a facelift when I noticed that Six Apart were blogging about there upcoming version of Movable Type, the blog software [...]

For years I’ve had an unbridled disgust for Macromedia’s Flash (now Adobe’s) program. It turned up in horrible places on websites, primarily music band sites, annoying background music and adverts. It’s most useful purpose seemed to be for time wasting mini games which wasn’t exactly useful. Any text in a flash website was usually inaccessible [...]