May 18th 2012
RT @alanogden: going to introduce @madnexus to proper fish and chips for #fridaylunch @3dpixelnet @snetty

May 14th 2012
all servers are now upgraded to 1Gbit connections.

May 9th 2012
So your website has been hacked? #salvagemysite http://t.co/mOjhgegC

April 25th 2012
the cobalt platform is back up and running now.

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A Web Developer’s Best Kept Secrets

Tuesday, December 14th, 2010

As 3DPixel.net’s resident coder extraordinaire I talk with end users and design agencies on a daily basis about current projects, quoting for prospective projects and just pie in the sky ideas.
When a new project is submitted for quote, I look at the brief and make a decision about whether the site needs to be bespoke [...]

Apache Global Output Compression

Wednesday, August 5th, 2009

Something we’ve been playing with for a while… global gzip / deflate compression on apache servers. Naturally you can do this in php or via .htaccess but why not do it globally from the apache configuration?
Decided to give it a whirl on some of our own dedicated servers the other day.
Dowsides:

Increases CPU load
Increases CPU load
Increases [...]

Secure Encrypted FTP

Sunday, June 21st, 2009

These things come in cycles but it seems as if the dreaded FTP hackers are back. Inserting malware in the form of hidden iframes, unescaped javascript into people’s sites via their own FTP details. No brute force, no server exploits, just logging in as the owner and adding the details to the bottom of (usually) [...]