For anyone who had one of these many years ago (it was my first ever computer), this should bring back memories.
Big Ideas (don’t get any) from James Houston on Vimeo.
27 Jan
5 reasons you should use Google Apps for your email
With Google Apps (formerly known as Google Apps for Your Domain), you can setup all the emails for your own domain to be handled by Google, which is what I’ve done for all emails to bigbluedev.com. Why would you want to do this I hear you ask? Well, let me break it down for you!
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24 Jan
Setup nginx for php and rails on Ubuntu Gutsy 7.10
Nginx is a high performance webserver and an alternative to using Apache to serve your sites. If, like me, you are hosting from a VPS with minimal memory and want a lightweight server with maximum performance then nginx is for you!
Having spent a good few hours sorting this out on my new VPS I thought I’d summarize the process here with links to the most helpful posts from around the web. I wanted to be able to setup virtual hosts for both php and rails sites, without Apache being installed on the machine.
14 Jan
Referer Message Wordpress Plugin
Having a welcome message at the top of a blog the first time you visit seems to be all the rage right now. I wanted to be able to do something similar but be able to show a different welcome message depending on what site people come to mine from. So here is a plugin for Wordpress which will do just that… read more
8 Jan
Inaugural introductory blog post
MJV Web Design has now morphed into BIG BLUE web development.
Its bigger, its bluer, and it will be the home of big things to come. I hope to grow and improve the site over the next few weeks so please check back for updates (or alternatively subscribe to my RSS feed), but just having the website live is good enough for now!
