I finally started using the Google AdWords API this week. Generally, this allows you to do anything you do by logging on to the Adwords site programmatically. However, it seems there are some things you can only do through the UI at the moment and even a few things you can more easily do through [...]

I heard this morning that Adobe are to Acquire Macromedia for $3.4 Billion. Adobe, whose products include the industry standard graphics software, Photoshop, and the pdf format, will now own the Flash format and add the standard web page editor Dreamweaver and graphics packages Fireworks and Freehand to its offerings. While I’ve no gripe with [...]

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 [...]

If you have SQL Server connections to databases on localhost in ASP.NET applications in Dreamweaver MX 2004 and they have suddenly stopped working, or you can’t create new connections, here is one possible reason. If you installed Windows XP SP2, this breaks the functionality in Dreamweaver which enables you to connect to local SQL Server [...]