http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk Portfolio for Ashley Sheridan - websites and personal projects Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:53:53 +0000 http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk/feed.php en daily 1 http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk/blog/Secure-Banking-Part-Deux-and-Fail-Mail Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:24:00 +0000 Ashley Sheridan Well, HSBC did get back to me, and quite frankly, I'm still disappointed with them. Apparently, they won't actually even begin looking at my complai... http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk/blog/Secure-Banking Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:58:00 +0000 Ashley Sheridan I, like many, use Internet Banking. It's fast, convenient, and generally safer because I don't have to worry about paper statements being intercepte... http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk/blog/Estate-Agents Wed, 24 Feb 2010 13:30:00 +0000 Ashley Sheridan I'm in the process of moving at the moment, which isn't a simple process at the best of times, but my current experience has left me in as confused ... http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk/blog/How-Do-You-Use-Facebook-Chat? Fri, 19 Feb 2010 00:25:00 +0000 Ashley Sheridan Today I read about how Facebook have opened up their chat to allow external messenger clients to connect via the Jabber/XMPP. Being a bit of a geek,... http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk/blog/All-of-a-Twitter Mon, 15 Feb 2010 05:02:00 +0000 Ashley Sheridan It's something I've always looked at and come away afterwards scratching my head in confused interest. Twitter is something I've never been sure abo... http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk/blog/PHP-Frameworks Fri, 12 Feb 2010 19:11:00 +0000 Ashley Sheridan Although I've had experience using CakePHP before, a recent project has led me out of necessity to learn to develop with CodeIgniter. So far I'm pre... http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk/blog/Virtual-Machine-Update Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:39:00 +0000 Ashley Sheridan As promised, I thought I'd give a bit of feedback no how the installation of the Virtual Machine and Windows XP went. Well, it all went without a hi... http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk/blog/Browser-FUD-From-Microsoft Tue, 12 Jan 2010 16:42:00 +0000 Ashley Sheridan I've been looking for a way to get IE8 on my Fedora machine for a little while now, as the IES4Linux project is becoming a bit dated, and only offer... http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk/blog/Why-I-No-Longer-Need-Windows Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:52:00 +0000 Ashley Sheridan I was forced into having to upgrade my main machines OS after a system update that went slightly wrong. I probably should have realised after last t... http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk/blog/Bit-of-a-Nibble Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:44:00 +0000 Ashley Sheridan As part of my website testing phase I encountered a great little testing platform called Nibbler which is the free part of the main service offered ... http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk/blog/Accessibility-Tested Fri, 02 Oct 2009 20:27:00 +0000 Ashley Sheridan I've just run the site through a series of accessibility tests, and gone over the Priority 3 guidelines at the W3C. This site is now as about as acc... http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk/blog/Using-mod_rewrite Fri, 02 Oct 2009 19:00:00 +0000 Ashley Sheridan For some reason, using the Apache mod_rewrite to aid with SEO has always been something I put off. Despite being fairly adept with regular expressio... http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk/blog/Hobbling-Along Fri, 02 Oct 2009 16:20:00 +0000 Ashley Sheridan Lastly, for those of you that might be interested, and I'm sure you all are really, I've finally had my in-growing toenail removed. I've been limpin... http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk/blog/New-Website-Content Wed, 30 Sep 2009 20:27:00 +0000 Ashley Sheridan In an effort to make the site more useful, I've been adding a lot of new content lately, mainly in the coding section. As well as this, I've tried a... http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk/blog/Apologies-for-the-Lack-of-Updates Tue, 29 Sep 2009 20:51:00 +0000 Ashley Sheridan Well, I knew it had been a while since I'd updated this thing, but I wasn't aware of quite how long! So, what's been happening since my last post? ... http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk/blog/Just-one-of-those-days Tue, 21 Jul 2009 20:51:00 +0000 Ashley Sheridan I knew for a while now that my laptop was in trouble; it was taking more time to do things, constantly running out of disk space, and more crashes t... http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk/blog/Browser-Testing Tue, 21 Jul 2009 17:00:00 +0000 Ashley Sheridan I had planned to do some browser testing this week, but things got a little bit busy because of my new job. The whole of last week was spent finishi... http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk/blog/Browser-Wars! Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:22:00 +0000 Ashley Sheridan I was sent a very interesting link earlier, which shows just how far the browser wars have come. Microsoft has launched a competition in Australia, ... http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk/blog/Accessibility Wed, 03 Jun 2009 14:37:00 +0000 Ashley Sheridan Of late, I've seen a lot of developers make more effort towards accessible web development. While this is not a new thing, it is gaining popularity ... http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk/blog/Front-End-Development Wed, 20 May 2009 14:27:00 +0000 Ashley Sheridan There is a reason why I prefer to develop things in the back-end of a site, and that reason is because I know the setup of a server if I'm not in a ... http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk/blog/Google-is-Good,-Hackers-are-Bad Wed, 22 Apr 2009 21:39:00 +0000 Ashley Sheridan Had a bit of a panic today, when I was attempting to administer my blog away from home. The network I was on did not allow me the luxury of connecti... http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk/blog/Fonts-and-Why-CSS-is-a-Good-Thing Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:00:00 +0000 Ashley Sheridan I think perhaps I've taken on slightly too much work since my last post, and I'll certainly learn from my mistakes, but the hectic work schedule has... http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk/blog/Explorer-Loading-Bug Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:00:00 +0000 Ashley Sheridan Twice this week have I come across this, being completely oblivious to it in the past, but IE has a strange bug that makes itself known when you are... http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk/blog/Hover-Bug Wed, 04 Mar 2009 22:00:00 +0000 Ashley Sheridan I recently came across a bizarre CSS bug today, with the :hover selector. Firefox incorrectly interprets the selector when the tag name is not spe... http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk/blog/Linux-and-Chrome Wed, 04 Mar 2009 21:44:00 +0000 Ashley Sheridan Having heard so much about the latest browser into the field, I decided to give it a try. Now, being the particular open-source advocate that I am... http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk/blog/Google-Chrome-Released Wed, 03 Sep 2008 21:33:00 +0000 Ashley Sheridan Google Chrome was released yesterday evening (UK time) and so far there are a few mixed opinions about it. The browser seems to be aimed at the te... http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk/blog/First-Attempts-at-SEO Mon, 25 Aug 2008 19:56:00 +0000 Ashley Sheridan I've had this past week off of work as part of my annual holiday leave and decided to spend the time doing things that I just didn't while I was ... http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk/blog/Using-Knoppix Mon, 04 Aug 2008 23:10:00 +0000 Ashley Sheridan I know I've already gone on about how good Knoppix is, but today I really found out how good it is. Since being back from India, I've been using ... http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk/blog/The-Virtues-of-Linux Sat, 02 Aug 2008 19:51:00 +0000 Ashley Sheridan I've spent a lot of my time this week (obviously while I wasn't working) displaying the wonders of Linux, or more particularly, the wonder that i... http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk/blog/Love-WoW-but-Hate-.Net Wed, 04 Jun 2008 13:00:00 +0000 Ashley Sheridan I've decided that from now on I'm going to take my camera everywhere I go, as I've missed several good photos already. A camera-phone is really j... http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk/blog/Me-Vs-WoW-Tech-Support Thu, 22 May 2008 02:26:00 +0000 Ashley Sheridan Been in India now for just over a week, and starting to feel homesick, but hopefully that should pass when I really get into the work. Finally go... http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk/blog/Arriving-in-India Tue, 06 May 2008 18:35:00 +0000 Ashley Sheridan This entry is coming to you straight from India, where I'm working for the next couple of months. Not really had the chance to do much so far, as ... http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk/blog/Epic-Journey Tue, 18 Mar 2008 22:29:00 +0000 Ashley Sheridan It's been a fairly busy month for me this month, what with work and the inevitable playing that occurs after! The only problem for me though, unf... http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk/blog/Warn-The-Stupids! Tue, 19 Feb 2008 21:36:00 +0000 Ashley Sheridan London Underground. Most of you will probably have heard of the song bearing that name by Adam Kay and Suman Biswas, and if not, I recommend you d... http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk/blog/Spam-Protection Sun, 17 Feb 2008 19:39:00 +0000 Ashley Sheridan Well, more spam relate shenanigans this week, spoofed to make it look like it came from my own email account no less. The last time this happened ... http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk/blog/Data-Security-Insecurity-and-Obscurity Tue, 05 Feb 2008 11:06:00 +0000 Ashley Sheridan Something interesting to speak of this week. No doubt everyone will be aware of the various security/data leaks we've had here these past months, ... http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk/blog/Spam:-First-Blood Wed, 30 Jan 2008 11:37:00 +0000 Ashley Sheridan Well, this is quite unheard of, making a second post just hours after its predecessor. The reason for this? Well, I just got my first spam email ... http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk/blog/Backups! Wed, 30 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +0000 Ashley Sheridan I had a very nearly catastrophic lesson today in the essential need for regular backups, having got back from lunch to see my computer had not on... http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk/blog/Alcohol,-Networks-and-Dodgy-Tables Fri, 18 Jan 2008 01:37:00 +0000 Ashley Sheridan Well, nothing particularly interesting has been happening of late, aside from some bizarre freak allergy which has left all the skin around my eye... http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk/blog/New-Job,-and-More-Computer-Trouble Sat, 05 Jan 2008 16:14:00 +0000 Ashley Sheridan Well, second blog entry, and a lot later than I had envisaged to write it, but a lot has been taking up my time recently. First and foremost is my ...