Recently I have been planning a project to build a ambilight clone using an Arduino. I havent done any circuit building before or played with an Arduino but I have done an extensive amount of research while planning the development of the amilight clone. This week I ordered a Arduino UNO starter kit to have my first go at a basic circuit. Click Here To Continue Reading Article …

This week I was inspired to work out how to change a CSS stylesheet and overall layout based on a mobile devices orientation. This would allow for much more user friendly webpage viewing in both landscape and portrait modes of tablets and phones. Click Here To Continue Reading Article …

Right now I’m looking for a new job as I want to progress to better things. Currently I work nights at a hotel and use really dead nights and my spare time to work on web design projects. I’m now looking to do this full time so read on to learn how I began to approach this. Click Here To Continue Reading Article …

Recently I have been working on a new idea for a search engine to scrape artwork for TV shows from multiple sources into one easy to find place. Within a week I had came up with FanPics.tv and coded a fully functioning TvShow FanArt Search Engine. Click Here To Continue Reading Article …

This is a project I did over a weekend for my own fancy little front page scroller we always see on websites these days designed for advertising their latest products or blog posts. I would say that 50% of these are all still made in flash. Flash is slow, buggy and incompatible with alot of things and esspecialy wont work on a tablet. So I decided to make my own very compatible scroller for use on any new sites I make. Click Here To Continue Reading Article …

Ive been busy recently and not posted in a while. What have I been up to exactly? Ive been coding the new version of PixelGrafters and its now finished. Ive also been playing with ways of getting myself known better on the internet. I got PixelGrafters on Twitter and FaceBook, Ive started a new AdWords campaign, installed AdSense on my websites, plus ive been setting up Windows server 2008 on my server at home but that’s another story and a dull one at that. Click Here To Continue Reading Article …

As you know I am currently working on re-developing PixelGrafters. A friend of mine introduced me to a new API from Rotten Tomatoes, I was interested as what new information this could provide me with as I currently use TheMovieDB. It turned out the Information about the movies really excelled in lists of movies such as “Upcoming” , “In Theatres”, “Movies Opening This week”, “DVD Releases this week”. This Info could be incredibly useful for me. Click Here To Continue Reading Article …

Over the weekend I have been coding a new BOT protection system for the new version of PixelGrafters. Over many years now PixelGrafters has frequently been bombarded by bots due to the nature of the dynamic content I display and it annoys me that I cannot tell very easily what is a human visitor. I decided I wanted that to change so I got coding, here is some details on what I came up with over the past 3 days. Click Here To Continue Reading Article …

PixelGrafters is currently under going massive optimization and development and I will be releasing version 3.0 hopefully with a mobile version of the site. Although that may be released as an extra feature in version 3.5. Im going to show you a snippet here of how im optimising the code for grabbing search results from themoviedb.org Click Here To Continue Reading Article …

Ive spent the past few days tinkering with a few ideas and designs for a new Business Card and finally come up with a design I like. I designed it in photoshop and have put pics of the new design in this post so anyone struggling out there with ideas for their own new card then this may give you a little inspiration. Click Here To Continue Reading Article …