Our internet connection was gone in work for several hours last Monday. In Ireland, many broadband connections had been upgraded the weekend before to go even faster. On Monday morning, this resulted in the connections for many businesses actually grinding to a halt!
All of us were greatly inconvenienced by this. Many rely on [...]

My favourite area of web development is CSS (Cascading Style Sheets - used to format web pages). I’m thoroughly enjoying reading The Zen of CSS Design, by Dave Shea and Molly E Holzschlag, at the moment.
This book is easily the most "coffee table" of my extensive computer book collection. It is based on the groundbreaking [...]

I know that the Sunday Independent deliveries were delayed in my local newsagents today, possibly due to coverage of the Pope’s death. However, even the online version seems to have been a rushed job. There are bits of code shown here and there, a Royston Brady story is shown twice and there is no mention [...]

I thought it was an April Fool’s joke at first, but I was invited to appear on the David McWilliams afternoon RTE show The Big Bite today. They will be covering blogging.
Unfortunately, I can’t make it but judging from other posts and the irishblogs mailing list, there will be a fair few bloggers about [...]