Just a short blurb to point out that the folks at Sitepoint are giving away The Photoshop Anthology.  I have personally purchased several of their books and have found them to be very well written and extremely useful.  You can download the high resolution .pdf book(64mb) here (for the low resolution, 24mb, here), or sign up for Sitepoint updates and get [...]

There is a handy feature when playing with Oracle databases in SQL+ called rollback.  When working with large databases this can be really an amazing feature, especially when you realise that you have just wiped out a huge amount of the wrong data and that it has cost millions of dollars to the company you are working.  This [...]

Having spent a lot of time last week developing a new theme for this blog I can honestly say that I am pretty disappointed with the outcome.  So much time, so much learning, so little beauty!  I have been trying to make myself feel better about this by reading a lot on how content is [...]

Apologies for the lack of updates over the past couple of weeks.  I am currently updating the Wordpress theme for this site and thinking about another new blog.  As you can imagine this is taking up most of my time…even though I have a little time off work right now.

I spent some time last night starting what could be a large job of redesigning the Being Primitive theme.  I use wordpress and have followed through a few tutorials and have read (a lot) of CSS to get me started.  When I first started this blog the idea was to continually update the theme to [...]