My name is Vaughan Harrris and I'm a web developer based in Bristol.
I have over 10 years in web development in ASP (VBScript), MS-SQL, PHP, MySQL and Javascript, and more recently, 4 years experience in Drupal and jQuery.
Take a look at my portfolio and let me know if there is anything I can do for you.
Vaughan
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Facebook is watching you
Lifehacker has an interesting article on how to prevent Facebook from tracking your every move. I knew Facebook followed you through the Like or Comment links on other web pages, but the extent to which they follow you is quite intriquing.
Some links for how to prevent this:
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http://lifehacker.com/5843969/facebook-is-tracking-your-every-move-on-th...
Solving signal problems with ADSL modem
We are experiencing signal problems, and bandwidth cappped at 4Mb because apparently that is how they solve intermittent connection problems. A small reduction I can understand, but since we're apparently on a 16Mb connection (according to support line), dropped to a quarter is not accpetable.
Looking around for some solutions there are the following coming up:
Improve your adsl broadband connection speed - http://www.kitz.co.uk/adsl/socket.htm
http://www.kitz.co.uk/adsl/frogstats.php
and what figures are good or not:
Improving download speeds.
Following the advice on the PageSpeed plugin for Firebug, I am making the following changes.
Logged in as Administrator, go to
Admin > Site Configuration > Performance
Enable Page Cache, Block Cache, and Optimise CSS and JavaScript.
Creating a Honeypot for rogue and spam-bots
The robots.txt file is supposed to stop spiders from crawling your site and access areas you don't want them to.
However while some (google, yahoo etc) may follow the rules, mainly because their reputation depends on it, there are some (spam harvesters etc) that will blatently ignore these.
I found a nice list of many bots that can be added to the .htaccess file. While this is not all of them it is a great starting point.
http://www.andrewkeir.com/stop-spam-harversters-malicious-crawlers-honey...
