Arghh, Downtime

Apologies to anyone that has visited the website in the last couple of days, it would appear that there has been a fairly large amount of downtime. Everything is back up and operational again. I will be keeping a closer eye on the status of the website from now on to try and prevent this type of situation arising again. Thanks for your understanding.

Check back soon.

Update: It would also appear that the category browsing is currently broken, I am working on a fix and will push it out shortly.

Just An Introduction

I’ve been promising to write this post for a while now, it is exactly what is says in the title, an introduction. A good friend of mine, after much persuasion has finally ‘got his blog on’. Fortunately he has a far better blogging style than me and blogs far more often so it shouldn’t be too much of a strain on the senses to bookmark him and/or add him to your feed reader. Funnily enough he is also a keen photographer so don’t forget to check out his Flickr page, you’ll find a link from his blog.

So here he is, (d…

Calculating Work Days

In work this week I came across a couple of problems in which I needed to performs some calculations involving dates and a number of “work days” rather than just normal numbers of days. My first few attempts filed miserably, so I did some Googling to see if I could find anyone else that had come across the same problem and of course, there were plenty of people.

The code I eventually used I found shoehorned into the middle of a coding help forum and, with a little bit of tweaking, it calculated the number of whole…

Flickr BBCode

phpBB is one of the most widely used forum systems on the internet and Flickr is one of the most popular photo sharing websites, unfortunately there is still no concrete way to integrate the two of them. As a temporary solution I came up with the following piece of BBCode to allow for the easy display of Flickr images in phpBB forums.

First, you will need to navigate to the “Admin Control Panel” of phpBB then to the “Posting” section. From here navigate to the screen that allows you to add custom BBCode.

In the…

Updates, Updates, Updates

Again, it has been quite a while since my last post (almost a month in fact) and quite a lot has happened since then. Any regular visitors to the website will have noticed the new theme, the website maintains the new layout released a couple of months ago but the colour scheme has changed to something a bit more minimal. Along with the new theme I have re-introduced some small adverts to the bottom of pages and modified the URL of the blog feed to allow tracking through FeedBurner.

The other main updates to the we…