Jason Ashdown

The latest version of CL Auth now includes example files to help you understand how to use the functions.

You can download a CL Auth v0.2.5 now.

I’ve just completed taking the “A List Apart” survey for 2008. It was a set of 48 quick questions about what its like to be a web designer.

If you are a web designer, I suggest that you show your support and fill in the survey so they can get the most accurate figures. They do publish them at the end of the year for everyone to see.

Last years results were interesting. It will be even more interesting to see how much they have changed this year!

Just to top off my daily posts, I have been perfecting a PHP Validation class over the past few months.

At work I tend to do a lot of registration forms for competitions, subscriptions, newsletters, contact forms etc.

So I went to the trouble of creating a very quick and easy validation class that I could include into my projects at a drop of a hat. Inspired by CodeIgniters validation class, it has very similar features. Including helper functions.

It’s even UTF-8 friendly (except for the email function). Please feel free to download and test it out yourself. Read the rest of this entry »

Recently I had to integrate a photo gallery for one of my work projects Sony Alpha, a new digital SLR camera from Sony. My task was to display both the Exif data and the image at the same time.

For this project I had to create something new which I haven’t found on the internet before. Its uses the popular Lytebox extension (a flavour of the popular Lightbox 2 javascript library) combined with a new javascript plugin that gathers Exif Data for photos via javascript with AJAX. Read the rest of this entry »

Apparently a new hacking tool exploiting the new DNS flaw has been released to the public. The DNS flaw was only published on the web last week by accident.

It is suggested that if administer your own webserver that you patch against this vulnerability ASAP. Otherwise you don’t know what might happen…

Link to IE Blog: Font Embedding on the Web

The IE Team talks about how you can embed any type of font you want into your web pages. This has been a highly desirable feature for years but has been a tough one to implement. Read the rest of this entry »

CL Auth is finally in round 2 of BETA testing. BETA v0.2 offers better optimisation, new functions, better documentation and easier customisation. It also quashes some known bugs from the previous BETA.

Download or view the Documentation online.

24 hours ago I received an email from Yahoo! Small Business stating my domain renewal quote. To my shock and horror there was an “important notice” stating that they were increasing the renewal price to $34.95!

Thats a whopping increase from $9.95 last year to $34.95. A dramatic 350% increase!

This is the contacts of the email they sent me: Read the rest of this entry »

As millions of people around the world start enjoying the web as it was meant to be with Firefox 3, you might want to checkout these awesome tweaks to make it more your cup of tea.

http://www.blogsdna.com/372/21-aboutconfig-hackstweaks-for-firefox-3.htm

I’ve published the first draft of the CL Auth Documentation online. I have placed it on this website so everybody can access it.