Alan Coleman
Web Dev & Creative Blog
Welcome to my Web Dev & Creative Blog. I'm a web developer interested in technology, design and photography.
Category Archives: Web apps
Online backups for Home PCs work, sort of.
So I’ve now tried three different online back up solutions for my home data. They’ve all worked but all have had the same flaw, they can’t deal with external drives. Backup for the PCs internal drive structure has always worked, … Continue reading
Strava – Fantastic running and cycling app
Now here’s a cool app. Strava, available for Android, iPhone and Garmin devices. Basically it tracks your journey and allows you to compare your results with other app users that may have completed the same route. It goes further still … Continue reading
What to do about a CMS
I’ve been looking at content management today. We need to upgrade our current CMS as the front end isn’t giving us the flexibility we need. There are a million CMS products available, all offering more simplicity than the next, the … Continue reading
One click upgrade to WordPress 3.1.1
One of the most attractive aspects for WordPress has to be the method of upgrade. A simple message appears on the dashboard in the manner of desktop software and you’re one click away from all the latest goodies. For me, … Continue reading
WordPress 3.1
I’ve been using WordPress to blog in various places for a number of years now, but it’s only recently that it’s started to live up to what it should have been. WordPress seems to be converging at point where all … Continue reading
Broadband speed not what it’s cracked up to be
So we get broadband installed with our new Sky package and it’s advertised at a fairly respectable 20 Mbps. Start the machine up and everything connects fine, the wireless password works and the router is doing the business, wicked. Or … Continue reading
Is Google Analytics better than The Poseidon Adventure?
I’ve been using Google Analytics a lot recently and at work it’s become an invaluable tool that guides all our online activity. The wealth and sheer depth of information available is staggering, as is the functionality afforded the user courtesy … Continue reading
Mozilla Labs Bespin and Personas
As the spring sun shone through our office window this morning I came across a couple of great things online that made the already great day even better. The first is an online code editing app from Mozilla Labs called … Continue reading
WebDevRadio and my new Whiteboard
I have a couple of great additions to my world of web development that are worthy of a mention. The first is the discovery of WebDevRadio, a site based around a set of regularly updated podcasts on web development issues. … Continue reading
ASP.NET for 2008
2008s project at work will be the next step in our re branding exercise, the development of an in house application to manage our content, otherwise known as a CMS. The technology will come courtesy of Microsoft’s .NET framework, that … Continue reading
I’m moving my photos to flickr
When I first built my website things where different, the web was still very much a media to look at and navigate, rather than to interact with like it is now. Initially I hand built HTML pages to show my … Continue reading
I can’t use ticket machines
I think I’m okay when it comes to technology, not like a geeky genius or anything, but able to have at least a limited grasp of how digital devices work and interact with each other. There are times however when … Continue reading
Web Standards Solutions. The Markup and Style Handbook
I wrote this on my Boomablog back in August 2005 and thought that it would be quite relevant here. It may sound like a bold claim, but in a small way this book changed my life for the better. Over … Continue reading
CMS for the New Year
Hello everyone, and a happy New Year to you all. This year starts quite busy for me, as a flip side to the inconvenience of a full time development job, I’ve a load of great sideline projects to be getting … Continue reading