One of our aims for Perch – the little CMS product developed by my company edgeofmyseat.com – is that the barrier to entry, to getting it installed is as low as possible. We chose PHP because hosting is cheap and plentiful, and it is very easy to set up a local development environment. Even for … Perch addon development and old PHP versions
I founded edgeofmyseat.com in September 2001. From the outset we have focussed on working for designers and design agencies – providing web development services. Drew McLellan joined the company in September 2007 and we continued working for the same kind of clients – taking on slightly bigger projects and developing things like our own PHP … Relaunching the edgeofmyseat.com website
The end of November went a bit crazy at edgeofmyseat.com – however rather than external deadlines, these were entirely of our own making. First out of the stable on Monday was the 1.6 release of our little Content Management System, Perch. Since releasing Perch a year and a half ago we have had loads of … The week of many launches
This week I presented at the Think Vitamin Online CSS3 Conference, kicking off the event with my presentation on CSS3 Selectors. I have now uploaded my slides and also my working file examples of the different selectors in use. Presenting online proved to be a slightly weird experience. When presenting at a conference, even the … Online CSS3 Conference
In the 9 years I have been running edgeofmyseat.com I have issued a large number of invoices but also received many invoices for freelancers and small companies working for us. Our policy is simple – we pay our contractors on or before the due date of the invoice. If we ask someone to do some … On paying and being paid
This is a rather lengthy post, and to try and keep it shorter than it would otherwise be I am assuming that readers have heard of Freecycle, Freegle or other re-use organizations and have had some experience of posting to them as a member or a moderator. You also need to know that I was … An open source application for re-use networks
When reading customer testimonials on websites I sometimes wonder how genuine the words are. There is often no way of knowing whether the quote even came from a real person, whether it was unsolicited or how old it is. As a business owner you have to keep these testimonials fresh and remember to request new … Using Twitter for customer testimonials
I’m back home this weekend after Web Directions @media. The first day saw me present on “Core CSS3”, in the design track, and the perspective I took on the use of CSS3 was the perspective I take as a developer. I took a look at the parts of CSS3, certain modules and parts of modules … Web Directions @media 2010
Having just recovered from the shock of my daughter becoming a teenager, or more to the point, me being old enough to have a teenage daughter, we had another milestone to celebrate. Perch, the “really little CMS” that we have developed over at edgeofmyseat.com, is now a year old. To celebrate we rolled out our … Perch 1.5
Yesterday I made the trip by train up to Dundee to speak to the students at the University of Abertay in Dundee. My slides and some supporting links from the presentation can be found here, although the slides aren’t particularly useful standalone. The University had asked me to come and speak about what I felt … University of Abertay Dundee