I've been doing screencasts for jQuery for designers for almost 6 months now, and I'm a big fan of peer learning/teaching - which I hope to achieve through screencasts. I'd like to share some tips that I've come to use in each session I run that might be helpful for budding screencasters. Apologies as I'm [...]

I was recently asked to rotate a video for a friend. Video rotation is required every now and then (especially when you record using a photo camera and the orientation is wrong). It's quite simple to achieve if you've got a Mac and QuickTime Pro (which is dirt cheap). Here's a quick screencast showing [...]

Following my how to setup your mac web development environment, and today moving to Leopard, my entire offline environment is broken - this is entirely due to the move from Apache 1.3 to Apache 2.2. This article will discuss the changes required to get your multi-host mac dev environment running again with PHP5, MySQL, Apache 2 [...]

Printing web pages is often forgotten about and there's nothing more annoying than printing out a web page that comes out in one long, half page width column spanning 5 pages when it should be 2. You don't need to have a completely separate page for print either. All too often we see web sites [...]

Update: for the latest version of this script, and complete control over how it looks, see Add Twitter to your blog (step-by-step)   Add tweets to your pages that won't break when Twitter goes down!   You might be inclined to add your 'Twitters' to your blog via JavaScript - the only problem is when Twitter's traffic goes up, [...]

IE is the biggest player in the browser land, and as much as I hate to do so, I have to test everything in IE. Now since IE7 is picking up ground, testing is done in both IE6 and IE7. So, I upgraded to IE7, and downloaded and use a stand alone version IE6. [...]

If you use TinyMCE, or any other WYSIWYG for that matter, to manage the content entry on your CMS, one of the reoccurring problems (I find) is formatting not being applied and blank line breaks when they're not wanted. The client then thinks there's a problem with the styling of the page, when in [...]