Category Archives: Internet

PhpGedView, SourceForge and the US Government

Posted on January 31, 2011 by Matthew Wilcoxson

I originally installed PhpGedView back in 2007. It’s an open source and free web program for managing family trees and based on the universal Gedcom file format commonly used in many genealogical websites and applications. I’ve been using it on … Continue reading →

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TwentyTen wordpress child hacks

Posted on August 1, 2010 by Matthew Wilcoxson

Having planned to do the work to combine my two previous blogs together, I thought I’d take the opportunity to upgrade to the very latest WordPress 3.0 version, which includes the all new default theme TwentyTen. This is already a … Continue reading →

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CanvasZoom – HTML5 Canvas and code

Posted on June 1, 2010 by Matthew Wilcoxson

The CanvasZoom program – similar to Zoomify – drawn with the HTML5 Canvas and JavaScript. Continue reading →

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HTML 5 canvas – "Earth Clock"

Posted on April 6, 2010 by Matthew Wilcoxson

So that I could test some of the new HTML5 features I put together a new clock design, called the world clock. HTML 5 is an upcoming standard for the internet, and it has some rather nice features such as … Continue reading →

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Facebook and the Money Transfer Scam (and deactiviation)

Posted on March 30, 2010 by Matthew Wilcoxson

This morning I was caught up in Money Transfer scam involving a friends hacked account. It works like this: First a cybercriminal hacks someones facebook account – unfortunately this can happen in many ways so I’m not going into details … Continue reading →

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CSS IE Media Query Hacks

Posted on March 25, 2010 by Matthew Wilcoxson

I’m not a fan of CSS hacks, they are totally unstable and unpredictable pieces of code, usually built on top of another bug… but… unfortunately the way of the web has made it almost impossible to avoid them – I … Continue reading →

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WordPress – my new home

Posted on August 11, 2009 by Matthew Wilcoxson

As you can see – assuming you are reading this on my blog – I’ve just moved over from blogger.com to my own space, notice the new web address: “http://www.akademy.co.uk/blog-tips” . After having a quick look around I decided to … Continue reading →

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Blackbird javascript debugging with PHP

Posted on April 29, 2009 by Matthew Wilcoxson

If you’re still using the javascript “alert()” function to output all of your debug information then take not: You need Blackbird! Blackbird creates a little window to output all your javascript debugging information. When you need it, you can pop … Continue reading →

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Mars goes Google.

Posted on February 3, 2009 by Matthew Wilcoxson

The beautiful Google Earth program has gone Martian. The planet Mars is now explorable in full 3D (not just an overlay). See Olympus Mons rise above the distant horizon or fly down Valles Marines in a full 3D projection. You … Continue reading →

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Teaching programming to the masses.

Posted on January 31, 2009 by Matthew Wilcoxson

Most people believe it’s easiest to learn new things when you are young, however, I believe if you are still able to think then you are still able to learn, but there is one good reason for learning earlier and … Continue reading →

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