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Refreshing Your Firefox Profile

I’m a big fan of Firefox, and it’s been my main web browser for as long as I can remember. Partly because it’s pretty good with web standards, and partly because of its huge range of plugins – in particular a plugin called Adblock Plus which stops most banner and Google adverts from showing [...]

Enabling GZip on WAMP

If you use WAMP (www.wampserver.com) to develop websites on a local PC, then you probably don’t need to enable gzip (server-side file compression to reduce the amount of data transferred when a web page is requested).
However, it can still be useful, letting you see how well a page may be compressed by your [...]

2009 Betfair Lifecycle Challenge

I’ve recently completed (well I say completed, it’s live but there’s plenty more to do) a website for a Maltese charitable organisation, the Lifecycle Organisation.
Although initially it was a paying freelance project, I spent some time thinking about what the organisation is striving to achieve, before deciding for the first time in my life to [...]