This morning, Windows 7 decided to push the wrong buttons with me, but on reflection, I’d have to call it “The Re-Boot Dilemma”. I’ll start with my rant first. I was checking my emails and doing research for a couple of projects – so I had a number of windows open, including several FireFox windows, [...]

One of the important, but often neglected things to try out when developing a new website is checking its appearance with different screen resolutions. To be honest, it’s a bit of a pain, switching between them and you’re also limited to what your monitor is capable of supporting. Well, anyway, this has got a lot [...]

When moving data from one system to another, it is invariably the CSV format that is used: it’s conveniently supported by Excel, Access and almost every other spreadsheet and database management system. However, it’s not the best format to use. CSV, as it’s name suggests, uses commas to separate values into columns. Furthermore, text is [...]

It was a quiet Tuesday morning in May, just after a bank holiday Monday. I was getting on with my database of databases: a database that held information about the databases we supported, where they were, who used them and how many . . . that sort of thing. Today this would be referred to [...]