_{Jamie Balfour's}Articles

The day after my final day in university. Exciting but sad. I'm looking back at the wonderful time I've had at Heriot-Watt University!

Prepared statements are something that every SQL developer should know about and yet, I asked several and not one of them knew what they are. This article intends to explore these fantastic tools and explain their benefits.

Apache mod_rewrite is something I didn't know a lot about until recently, but what I have known about for a long time is how useful a tool it is for SEO. In this article I look in to how mod_rewrite can be used to improve SEO.

Sometimes it's a pain building a webpage with a sidebar. It took me long enough to get my own sidebar the way it is. This article explores the ways in which this can be done and which solution offers the best approach.

When I first used Firefox over 10 years ago I found that much needed alternative to Internet Explorer again; which I had been using since my Netscape browser was no longer being developed. It slowly became my favourite browser. But all of a sudden Firefox has suddenly become my least favourite browser. This article describes why.

Browsers leverage caches, so why don't they just keep a copy of important libraries?

HDMI-CEC is one of those hidden gems in the world of technology. This short article talks about how brilliant it is.

I've been through quite a few laptop computers, each of them has been special to me in some way or another. This is the history of my laptop computers from my first to my current.

HTTP is old, and it's not moved with the times. In this article I make my first suggestion to improve it.

Whilst PHP has been one of my all time favourite language for what it can do, it has a very bad level of inconsistency through out the syntax.