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The last 2 weeks have been a nightmare. To run a successful e-commerce website, you need a good domain name, a well built site, an easy to use payment system, and an efficient pick and pack system.  Having finished 2 websites 2 weeks ago we were ready for launch.  Cue website 1.  Time to change [...]

Tablesheets – A unique coding style, or an abomination?

Posted: 19th November 2009 by Ben Fallaize in Programming
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Back when I first started hand coding websites, it was all about tables. Designs were cut up into squares and laid out in rows and columns. This was ten years ago, oh how I miss those days…

Perl’s ability to get away with murder

Posted: 14th September 2009 by Ben Fallaize in Programming
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Recently I’ve been using Perl to write a sort of search engine.  Basically, it gets given a web address, it goes off, has a good mooch through the given web address, gathers the information I tell it to, has a little sleep, and comes back to me, all the while fooling the chosen site into [...]