February 2012
1 post
My guitar effect pedals!
Well, I’ve been mucking about in bands for ages now, but decided it’s about time I got my gear sorted out. I want to have that professional sound my favourite bands have, but with a couple of average effect pedals and a valvestate amp it’s not likely to happen!
When I get on stage finally with my new band, I hope it’ll have the quality and variety of sounds that will make...
January 2012
1 post
Preventing Copy/Paste in HTML forms
It’s not a very common request that someone asks for a input box to not allow copy/paste functionality, but it happens every now and then!
Below is the jQuery code I found that did the job for me, I hope it helps you…
$(‘#inputField’).bind(“cut copy paste”,function(e) {
e.preventDefault();
});
December 2011
5 posts
“Technology: the knack of so arranging the world that we need not experience it.”
Christmas - a time to turn off and unwind
I’ll not lie, this year has been pretty stressful with one thing and another, and the chance to completely turn off from work is a rare one for me. It feels like I’m at work 24/7 with our clever smart phones. A client can always call at any time on your mobile and your email is haunting you wherever you go. Holidays are also rarely work free.
I read about VW in the news recently which...
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If you try to game Google, will it bite back?
I’ve been keeping an eye on a website recently which suffered a severe penalty from Google. But the mystery was, what did they do wrong?
In this industry everyone is building links as much as possible, they all do it and they all do it artificially to a certain extent, so why was only one picked on?
Could it be because they were offering Google Plus votes as a paid service? Or maybe...
“I’m easy, it’s all beer to me.”
– Glenn Jacobs, 2011
Bonjourno!
Well, I tried to set-up a nice WordPress blog, but could never find a nice theme until I stumbled upon a Tumblr style theme which I quite liked. So thought to myself, well why don’t I actually run it off Tumblr!!?
So my personal blog is now on Tumblr, lets see if I keep it updated. I will not be picky, I’m just going to dump my random thoughts etc here and hopefully someone will find...