I often find it a headache to remember how best to be formatting datetime coming into and out of php/sql setups especially when outputting it via JSON to be rendered in javascript-based frontends. This is how I do it. datetime coming out of an SQL DB in the format of…
CSS Rounded Corners
Rounded corners seem to be a bane for designers as there is no way to implement them in a cross browser friendly way. So we are used to implementing complex markup which is brittle and relies on images in the corner divs of a 9 div grid. Since a couple…
Getting images out of a microsoft word file
I once had a client who scanned in hundreds of old photographs directly into Microsoft Word file only to need them in their raw formats for use in another application. Needless to say it wasn’t favourable to redo the hours of scanning to save them as JPEGs or similar and…
Great online orrery
I’ve always wanted to have a real orrery, let alone be able to build one as I think it would be a fascinating excercise to get to grips with how our solar system is linked and how everything relates. We too often forget the bigger picture out there and get…
80 Interesting Tech Infographics
Infographics have been around one way or another since the days of cave men. With rock art being the first examples of infographics we’ve come a long way since, using them in clever and interesting ways from anything as mundane as depicting the amount of votes in a two-horse race…