Articles tagged with: web-development

• Safari inspect element CSS problem
  Posted by Gordon Ansell on 22 May 2019 at 19:30 with tags: tech, css, web-development.
  316 words, 2 minute read time.
  How to fix a problem with Safari's 'Inspect Element' where the DOM tree seems to bounce all over the place.
• How to use the PHP built-in web server
  Posted by Gordon Ansell on 10 May 2019 at 04:40 with tags: tech, php, web-development.
  420 words, 2 minute read time.
  A brief example of how to use the PHP built-in web server for testing and development purposes.
• Schema markup for a blog (Part 2)
  Posted by Gordon Ansell on 23 April 2019 at 18:10 with tags: tech, web-development, blogging.
  1161 words, 4 minute read time.
  My (revised) version of how to markup a blog with schema so that the relevant properties and relationships are properly defined.
• Using schema @IDs
  Posted by Gordon Ansell on 23 April 2019 at 10:50 with tags: tech, web-development.
  366 words, 2 minute read time.
  How to use schema @ids to avoid repeating yourself when you want to define complex schemas. It's easier than you might think.
• Panic to release Coda replacement
  Posted by Gordon Ansell on 15 March 2019 at 10:00 with tags: tech, apple, macos, ios, software, web-development.
  350 words, 2 minute read time.
  Panic have announced that they intend to replace Coda, their web development software, with something entirely new.
• Schema.org for a blog
  Posted by Gordon Ansell on 17 October 2018 at 07:15 with tags: tech, blogging, web-development.
  1556 words, 6 minute read time.
  How I use schema.org markup on a blog. A combination of WebSite, Blog, Article and BlogPosting, and things like Product and Review to generate rich snippets.
• Coda review - nearly the perfect code editor
  Posted by Gordon Ansell on 13 October 2018 at 08:45 with tags: tech, review, apple, ios, software, web-development.
  1112 words, 4 minute read time.
  A review of Panic's Coda, which is a code editor, FTP and terminal app for macOS and iOS. It's basically very good but suffers from one or two drawbacks.
• PHP 7 sessions timing out too soon
  Posted by Gordon Ansell on 03 October 2018 at 09:30 with tags: tech, php, web-development.
  191 words, less than 1 minute read time.
  Fixing PHP sessions, which seem to be timing out too soon since PHP 7. The problem lies with where the sessions are saved.
• How I use Jekyll on both macOS and iOS
  Posted by Gordon Ansell on 10 September 2018 at 07:00 with tags: tech, jekyll, macos, ios, linux, web-development.
  598 words, 2 minute read time.
  Whereas Jekyll will run on macOS, it won't run on iOS, so I had to install it on my Linux server. This is the cross-platform process I use to publish articles via Jekyll.
• Controlling your own creative content and IndieWeb
  Posted by Gordon Ansell on 02 August 2018 at 10:20 with tags: tech, social-media, blogging, web-development.
  676 words, 3 minute read time.
  Why you should maintain control of your creative content on the internet via your own website and the blueprint provided by IndieWeb.
• Reconfiguring Jekyll processes for iOS
  Posted by Gordon Ansell on 23 March 2018 at 07:30 with tags: tech, jekyll, apple, ipad, ios, web-development.
  753 words, 3 minute read time.
  This article describes how I went about changing the way I used Jekyll to support moving from a MacOS MacBook Pro as main computer to using an iOS iPad Pro instead.
• Why use Jekyll as a blogging platform?
  Posted by Gordon Ansell on 07 March 2018 at 07:20 with tags: tech, jekyll, blogging, web-development.
  716 words, 3 minute read time.
  Why I chose to use Jekyll, a static blog generation app, to power this site rather than something like Wordpress.
• Installing Jekyll on macOS (OSX) 10.11+
  Posted by Gordon Ansell on 01 March 2018 at 09:55 with tags: tech, jekyll, apple, macos, web-development.
  676 words, 3 minute read time.
  A description of how I installed Jekyll on MacOS 10.11+, including how to get past some of the errors I encountered.