Computer security is a term that nearly all of us have become extremely familiar with. Especially since the Internet went commercial in the mid 90s. I remember when my Dad brought home our first 28.8k dial up modem, and now I complain when my 24Mb aDSL connection stalls a little.
The more computers become part of [...]

An article last week about Princeton University research into the sophistication of cyber attacks reminded me just how important it is for online businesses to take their security seriously.
The great strength of the internet is its accessibility but unfortunately the trade off is that this can also be its vulnerability. Providing access to [...]

Hello Earth! When people come to me seeking a deeper understanding of what a web developer does, I usually mumble something about back ends and databases and how it’s much more interesting to do than talk about. Well today I feel like being more forthcoming, so here’s a post about the joys of web dev.
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First, let me introduce myself. I’m Chris. I spend my days at UKFast weaving PHP pages from cold hard text, fiddling with brain-blendingly complex SQL queries and dancing the mystical dance of CSS.
When I’m not dealing with that triumvirate of three letter abbreviations (let’s not get started on the acc vs abb stuff), I like [...]

There’s a running debate over in the creative office here today. The Research and Development team are questioning the Design team on the configuration of images for websites.
The question is: Should a designer spend time dividing the image into sections so that the webpage is loading up a number of separate files, giving the appearance [...]