Many years ago the Web Standards Project (or WASP) fought the fine fight to pressure browser manufacturers into complying with some sort of standard version of HTML. Prior to that we almost had to build separate sites for Netscape and Internet Explorer - it was horrible.
We have come so far with browsers, but unfortunately most […]

There has been a lot of talk lately (and rightly so) about the disadvantages of using captcha to stop comment spam.
I’m not a big fan. They’re often hard to read even for someone with reasonably normal vision.
“Is that a zero or the letter O?”
“Upper case C or lower case c?”
Others have suggested some sort of […]

Thanks to Schmeegs for this - a very simple, straight-forward was to get Apache/MySQL/PHP running on your Windows box.
EasyPHP. Worked straight away for me without having to do anything!
Any if you do need to customise it, a little interface makes that pretty simple, too.