Development
I was recently building an e-commerce solution for someone, and came across a rather irritating issue which after many hours of searching for a solution I still couldn't find any information on, and every solution I found didn't do what I needed it to do. The site is Drupal 6.x with Ubercart 2.x installed as the e-commerce shopping platform, these two products have been proven over and over again to be fantastic, but as I have recently found, it takes a little more than just standard...
I was going to wait until the new year to release this version of my site but I just couldn't wait any longer. Welcome to the new look boardyuk.com :-)
I have been working with Drupal 6 for months at work and I've come to absolutely love it, so when Drupal 7 hit BETA I had to start playing with it and seeing just what it could do. I was amazed even in 7 BETA how much of a step up it is from 6.19 which is what this site used to run. The admin system is just so much easier, everything...
Well instead of redesigning this site as I've been meaning to do for over a month now I decided to get it running a little better and optimise the server big time for running dynamic sites.
Originally my servers ran Apache2 and mod_php with a MySQL database backend just installed from the aptitude install commands, however I noticed that even under not much strain the server would get bogged down and eventually just crash out needing a reboot. It was about time I stopped thinking about...
Those who follow me on Twitter will know that I recently had a large issue whilst developing a site with CSS and IE not playing ball at all...yes that old chestnut is back!
The main problem arose whilst building a site with a 3 column layout, which had 2 columns in the centre as well as 2 full width sections above and below that. Normally I'm pretty good with CSS and getting it to work cross-browser, however for some reason this time I didn't test all the way through the development in...
Well what a month this past month has been! I got moved back into my parents house and started the job search as nearly every graduate will have done, applied left, right and centre, I even had an interview with Apple! After not much luck at all I got a call from a nice guy called Nick who was recruiting for a developer role which he thought would suit me perfectly, it would involve me re-locating again but this really wasn't an issue to me so I got an interview arranged and off I trotted on...