The wellington inaugural python users group meetup was really good, which was totally contrary to my pesimistic expectations.Probably the most fascinating part of the whole exercise was that the presenters were basically flying seat-of-pants (huge,...

Notes from my talk at SHDH on improving iphone browser accessibility on regular websites:LayoutYou can use a separate stylesheet to overwrite style settings for your site:<link rel="stylesheet" href="mobile.css" media="handheld, only screen and...

In social apps it's not uncommon to have some level of internal messaging system, the general idea is that it allows two users to get in touch without exposing emails or other contact details - keeping initial contact at arms length and within...

The web2.0 craze has placed a large emphasis on opening up your data, and some compelling benefits have come as a result of that (not to mention some cool third party apps), but there are a number of decisions you can make that, while simple,...

A quick trick. If you're setting cookies from your site, prefix the domain with a ".". Ie: Domain: .phirate.comThe result of this is that any subdomain of phirate.com also receives the cookie, rather than it being limited to phirate.com. This greatly...