Just a very quick post to let you know about my newly launched profile site: My Name is Daniel. I originally purchased the domain danielhollands.co.uk back in November 2011 when I was working for Propeller. I’d heard on the news…
Back story Back in May, shortly after setting up a Google Apps account (to help me manage email for the various domains that I own), I had the idea to write an article on the blog explaining why it was awesome, and why…
Find out why I, and thousands of other sites across the web, are choosing the 5th June as the day we Reset the Web!
This weekend, in a fit of popcorn-induced insanity, I decided to purchase a copy of the Kickstarter-funded Shadowrun Returns on Steam. Why did it take a fit of insanity for this to happen? Because Shadowrun Returns is a cRPG, and I…
Introduction At the tail end of October last year I saw a post on LinkedIn by Packt asking if anyone would like a free copy of their recently published Laravel Application Development Cookbook by Terry Matula. Being the greedy so-and-so…
Credits to Nebezial.
By this time next week, I would have (hopefully) survived my first day at my new job, and gone back for more. My new job requires that I learn Yii, which I have been doing, and for the most part…
Now that I’ve officially handed in my resignation letter, (after a weekend of trying to keep the news quiet – it’s only fair that my boss hears it from me, and not from Twitter), I can now announce that on…
Although the vast majority of the content on this blog is web-related, from time to time I have something which I want to share that isn’t related to the web, and this just happens to be one of them posts. This…
Online security has been featured in the news more over the past year than I think a lot of people like. Hacking groups (such as LulzSec) have been targeting high profile companies (including Dropbox, Sony, Valve, et al) and (among other sinister things) have been releasing…
I’m having a bit of a dilemma. I’m a web developer, and as a web developer, I’m part of an industry that is forever evolving. New tools and techniques are being created all the time, and if you don’t keep…
Introduction I’ve been meaning to make this post for a few months now, but one thing lead to another, and before I knew it an unhealthy amount of procrastination had set in. I really don’t have any real excuse for this…