DNS is a symptom of broken search #sopa

The Domain Name System – which much of the internet is built on – is a system of servers which turn friendly names humans understand (foo.com) into IP addresses which computers understand (111.222.333.444). It is hierarchical and to a large extent centralised. You will be the master of *.foo.com, but you have to buy foo.com […]

Marcus Povey

The Domain Name System – which much of the internet is built on – is a system of servers which turn friendly names humans understand (foo.com) into IP addresses which computers understand (111.222.333.444). It is hierarchical and to a large extent centralised. You will be the master of *.foo.com, but you have to buy foo.com […]

Introducing the BCT Framework

Over on GitHub I have just open sourced a PHP web and web services framework which I’ve been making use of to build a lot of projects recently. Initially, it was built for a single project but I’ve ended up using it for many other things, and I thought it might be useful to the […]

Marcus Povey

Over on GitHub I have just open sourced a PHP web and web services framework which I’ve been making use of to build a lot of projects recently. Initially, it was built for a single project but I’ve ended up using it for many other things, and I thought it might be useful to the […]

Latakoo WordPress plugin

Scratching even more itches, this on behalf of our lovely people using the latakoo service to host video on their blogs. So here is a WordPress plugin that simplifies embedding latakoo video on your blog by adding a latakoo shortcode. Simply install it and you will be able to link to videos directly on your […]

Marcus Povey

Scratching even more itches, this on behalf of our lovely people using the latakoo service to host video on their blogs. So here is a WordPress plugin that simplifies embedding latakoo video on your blog by adding a latakoo shortcode. Simply install it and you will be able to link to videos directly on your […]