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From the archives

Here you will find a selection of tasty morsels in reverse chronological order. Feel free to peruse them at your leisure, although no guarantees as to quality or satisfaction are made. (Some of it stinks.)

  1. The Curse of max_file_uploads 01 June 2010
  2. It's Not the Pay, It's the Wall 26 March 2010
  3. Moving from Basecamp to ActiveCollab 24 January 2010
  4. How To Create 100 Unique MOO MiniCards 22 October 2009
  5. What's In Your Utility Belt? 15 October 2009
  6. Own Every Aspect of The Design 09 October 2009
  7. The Fallacy of Page Zooming 18 June 2009
  8. Five Interesting Ways To Publish with Perch 11 June 2009
  9. Launching Perch 01 June 2009
  10. 10 Cost Effective Web Development Techniques 18 May 2009
  11. Easing The Path From Design to Development 18 May 2009
  12. Supersleight jQuery Plugin for Transparent PNGs in IE6 12 March 2009
  13. The Cost of Accessibility 25 February 2009
  14. HTML and Web Standards Training 12 January 2009
  15. The Myth of Stability 29 December 2008
  16. Roadtesting a Sumo Omni Beanbag Chair 30 November 2008
  17. The Trouble with BarCamp 14 October 2008
  18. What Brian Cant Never Taught You About Metadata 14 October 2008
  19. Coping With Internet Explorer's Mishandling of Buttons 30 July 2008
  20. The Clangers' Guide to Microformats 06 July 2008
  21. When Bugs Collide: Fixing Text Dimming in Firefox 2 19 June 2008
  22. Content Management Without the Killing 03 June 2008
  23. Content Management Nightmares 13 May 2008
  24. Web Standards and Accessibility with Adobe Spry 10 May 2008
  25. London Web Week 05 April 2008
  26. Don't Import, Subscribe 28 March 2008
  27. Project Management Doesn't Have To Be Hard 26 March 2008
  28. Armadillo v3 24 March 2008
  29. Version Targeting and JavaScript Libraries 24 January 2008
  30. How To Set an Apple Touch Icon for Any Site 17 January 2008
  31. Moving hkit Forward 16 January 2008
  32. hKit now on Google Code 07 January 2008
  33. Preparing for 24ways 23 November 2007
  34. PHP mail() and The Path of No Return 02 November 2007
  35. Time to Take Stock 13 August 2007
  36. PHP Build Systems 03 August 2007
  37. IWMW, Amazon Web Services and hKit 17 July 2007
  38. hAtom and Last.fm Shoutboxes 26 June 2007
  39. The State of Textpattern 14 May 2007
  40. Why Your Forum Software Needs OpenID 21 March 2007
  41. Impressions of The New AirPort Extreme 26 February 2007
  42. Machine Tags: Tagging Revisited 24 January 2007
  43. UK Geek Events 23 January 2007
  44. Changes Afoot at WaSP 22 December 2006
  45. 24ways Returns For 2006 01 December 2006
  46. Textpattern and the Technorati Link Count Widget 23 November 2006
  47. Can Microformats be Validated? 26 October 2006
  48. Can Your Website be Your API? 22 October 2006
  49. From BarCamp to d.Construct 04 September 2006
  50. Microformats Tools and Upcoming Events 22 August 2006
  51. JSON All The Way 10 August 2006
  52. Joining Yahoo! 05 August 2006
  53. hKit version 0.5 22 July 2006
  54. The Biggest Unsolved Problems of Web Design 05 July 2006
  55. hKit version 0.4 23 June 2006
  56. hKit version 0.3 22 June 2006
  57. hKit Microformats Toolkit for PHP 21 June 2006
  58. Maps, Microformats and LPG 13 June 2006
  59. Sleight Update: Alpha PNG Backgrounds in IE 31 May 2006
  60. hCalendar in Endo 23 May 2006
  61. The Dangers of Automatically Generating hCards 11 May 2006
  62. Jumping Off Points 03 May 2006
  63. Adding hCard to Vitamin 26 April 2006
  64. The Term 'Subscribe' Can Mislead 21 April 2006
  65. Five Most Important Considerations 21 April 2006
  66. Microformats in Dreamweaver 23 March 2006
  67. Google Page Creator 23 February 2006
  68. The Future of Web Apps Summit 10 February 2006
  69. Site Maps for Web Applications 30 January 2006
  70. Four Things 24 January 2006
  71. So That Was 24ways 05 January 2006
  72. 24 Ways in 24 Days 01 December 2005
  73. d.Construct Podcasts 15 November 2005
  74. Web Development on a Microsoft Platform 01 November 2005
  75. More After The Jump 19 October 2005
  76. Writeboard Document Locking 04 October 2005
  77. Web-based Collaboration Round-up 03 October 2005
  78. iWork Installation Nightmares 17 September 2005
  79. Bigger Than My Telly 15 September 2005
  80. European Parliament: Nil Point 13 September 2005
  81. eBay To Buy Skype 12 September 2005
  82. Upgraded to Textpattern 4.0.1 11 September 2005
  83. Local Textile 09 September 2005
  84. Taking it Personally 03 September 2005
  85. Textpattern 4.0 15 August 2005
  86. Call For Hackers 03 August 2005
  87. Paging Large Datasets in SQL Server 11 July 2005
  88. The Office 07 July 2005
  89. New Camera 22 June 2005
  90. Theft by Blogging 12 June 2005
  91. On Windows Server 2003 Web Edition 10 June 2005
  92. LUGRadio Live 2005 02 June 2005
  93. Tigers and Penguins 18 May 2005
  94. End of The Road for Fireworks? 18 April 2005
  95. Acid2 Let Loose 13 April 2005
  96. Everyone Has a Clock 10 April 2005
  97. Emerging from the Shower 05 April 2005
  98. Podcast Aggregators Should Support Cookies 08 March 2005
  99. User Defined Functions Considered Harmful 03 March 2005
  100. Getting Very Dynamic at XML.com 10 February 2005
  101. Designing URIs 07 February 2005
  102. Podcasting 18 January 2005
  103. Seeking New Opportunities 05 January 2005
  104. Predictions for 2005 30 December 2004
  105. XMLHttpRequest for The Masses 12 December 2004
  106. Mental Clarity 07 December 2004
  107. Developing Web apps for IE Only 25 November 2004
  108. A Question of Title 20 November 2004
  109. Supermarket Usability 18 November 2004
  110. CSS Anthology 15 November 2004
  111. Web Applications are Easy 11 November 2004
  112. Embedding Macromedia Flash in XHTML 26 October 2004
  113. To Apple Care or Not To Apple Care 22 October 2004
  114. When Vendor Tie-In Bites Back 16 October 2004
  115. The Joel Test for Web Development - Conclusions 04 October 2004
  116. The Joel Test for Web Development - Part 3 26 September 2004
  117. The Joel Test for Web Development - Part 2 22 September 2004
  118. The Joel Test for Web Development 21 September 2004
  119. Web Development is Software Development 17 September 2004
  120. The Importance of Good Client Liaison 08 September 2004
  121. The Dangers of Redesigning a Web Application 01 September 2004
  122. Curl for HTTP Debugging 25 August 2004
  123. Armadillo v2 21 August 2004
  124. Browse Happy 20 August 2004
  125. A Font for Programming 18 August 2004
  126. Geekend 17 August 2004
  127. Rested 08 August 2004
  128. Accessing a Windows 2003 Share from OS X 29 July 2004
  129. Firefox and The IEAK 28 July 2004
  130. Referrer Log Spam 21 July 2004
  131. Locate on OS X 13 July 2004
  132. Authentication Required 08 July 2004
  133. Scalability vs Performance 05 July 2004
  134. And Breathe Out 30 June 2004
  135. Interview with ... Me 24 June 2004
  136. Colour me Spammy 16 June 2004
  137. By the way of an example 15 June 2004
  138. Take the Weather With You 14 June 2004
  139. Who Cares Anyway? 08 June 2004
  140. The Slippery Slope 01 June 2004
  141. Collaborative Document Editing 28 May 2004
  142. Experience is More Important than Knowledge Of Syntax 21 May 2004
  143. Writing The Code is the Easy Bit 18 May 2004
  144. Page Manipulation with W3C DOM 14 May 2004
  145. CSS Editors 06 May 2004
  146. Running a Development Server 04 May 2004
  147. Subversion 27 April 2004
  148. Comments on Comments 26 April 2004
  149. Kittens and Letters 22 April 2004
  150. Geocaching 20 April 2004
  151. Page 23 15 April 2004
  152. Central Email Signatures 15 April 2004
  153. Icons for Web Applications 10 April 2004
  154. Textpattern Plugins 06 April 2004
  155. Someone who once wrote a book 03 April 2004
  156. My Car 30 March 2004
  157. Defensive Design for the Web 25 March 2004
  158. Preventing Comment Spam 22 March 2004
  159. Centralised Authentication 22 March 2004
  160. Take-out Interfaces 17 March 2004
  161. Processing Words 15 March 2004
  162. Blog Anniversaire 11 March 2004
  163. Web Standards Solutions 09 March 2004
  164. Natural Order 04 March 2004
  165. Blog Data Exchange 02 March 2004
  166. ASP Web Development 02 March 2004
  167. The Gas Man Cometh 26 February 2004
  168. Textpattern Public Gamma Release 24 February 2004
  169. iSight and Housekeeping 22 February 2004
  170. Search Engine Near Misses 20 February 2004
  171. Selling Software Online 17 February 2004
  172. Form Elements in Firefox 12 February 2004
  173. About 11 February 2004
  174. Elegance 10 February 2004
  175. Installing OS X Developer Tools from DVD 07 February 2004
  176. Site Upgrades 05 February 2004
  177. Bluetooth KVM 01 February 2004
  178. iDesk 01 February 2004
  179. Inner Demon 29 January 2004
  180. Using BBEdit with SMB Shares 25 January 2004
  181. MySQL and GarageBand (unrelated) 24 January 2004
  182. As a Parrot 23 January 2004
  183. First Impressions 19 January 2004
  184. The Waiting Game 15 January 2004
  185. PowerBook 13 January 2004
  186. On Spam 10 January 2004
  187. Social Networking Technology 08 January 2004
  188. Mailio 03 January 2004
  189. Favourite PHP Tricks 02 January 2004
  190. PHP Duplicate Names 01 January 2004
  191. Alternative and Punk 31 December 2003
  192. Sir TBL 31 December 2003
  193. iPod 28 December 2003
  194. Tis the Season 24 December 2003
  195. Data Protection 22 December 2003
  196. Recovering a Windows Profile 19 December 2003
  197. CSS Underscore Hack 17 December 2003
  198. Windows is a bitch ... and then it dies 17 December 2003
  199. Delivery Failure 14 December 2003
  200. From T68i to T610 11 December 2003
  201. Old Dog New Tricks 08 December 2003
  202. Rock the Taskbar 06 December 2003
  203. PHP Sessions Update 05 December 2003
  204. Sessions, hah! What are they good for? 03 December 2003
  205. 70% Spam 30 November 2003
  206. PHP on OS X 26 November 2003
  207. Panther 23 November 2003
  208. Drawing networks 20 November 2003
  209. Class structure 18 November 2003
  210. Creating and Designing Your Own Personal Disaster 17 November 2003
  211. Application Interface Design 17 November 2003
  212. We have a winner 14 November 2003
  213. My Goodness, My Guinness, MySQL 13 November 2003
  214. Search me 12 November 2003
  215. Dir vs ls 10 November 2003
  216. Paper-centric authoring environments 10 November 2003
  217. New job 05 November 2003
  218. ReUSEIT judging underway 03 November 2003
  219. The Damned Key 31 October 2003
  220. XML, DTD, Radio Silence 30 October 2003
  221. What shape is your phone book? 28 October 2003
  222. PHP class properties 26 October 2003
  223. Tabbed browsing in Safari 25 October 2003
  224. ALA Returns 22 October 2003
  225. Making Progress 20 October 2003
  226. More on XML 16 October 2003
  227. It's just this damn XML 14 October 2003
  228. VNC 12 October 2003
  229. Caveat Emptor 09 October 2003
  230. Important acronyms 08 October 2003
  231. Eolas Patent Workarounds 08 October 2003
  232. Changes to IE 07 October 2003
  233. Mail 06 October 2003
  234. Tart\'s Knickers 03 October 2003
  235. Building a Wall 30 September 2003
  236. Talking Web Standards 29 September 2003
  237. I gots me a Favicon 25 September 2003
  238. Firebird Favicons 24 September 2003
  239. The IC-Style 22 September 2003
  240. More on IIS Lockdown 19 September 2003
  241. 404 - Error Badly Assigned 18 September 2003
  242. Dear Apple Computer 16 September 2003
  243. XHTML 2.0 again 14 September 2003
  244. The times they are onchanging 11 September 2003
  245. CSS in Dreamweaver 10 September 2003
  246. I'm an idiot 09 September 2003
  247. Too good to be true 09 September 2003
  248. ClearType anything but 08 September 2003
  249. Welcome to Teletubbie Land 07 September 2003
  250. Flash Satay resurgence 04 September 2003
  251. Firebird bookmarks 03 September 2003
  252. So near, and yet 02 September 2003
  253. Milestones / Millstones 27 August 2003
  254. Flash Satay Poll 20 August 2003
  255. Treading the past 19 August 2003
  256. Re-Useit Design Contest 15 August 2003
  257. Attention Fireworks and Photoshop users 13 August 2003
  258. This man must be stopped 10 August 2003
  259. Alone 08 August 2003
  260. The dot.com chair 05 August 2003
  261. Employment 04 August 2003
  262. Brief encounters 30 July 2003
  263. Advertising 29 July 2003
  264. Usability on the cheap 29 July 2003
  265. Blogathon 26 July 2003
  266. Duplicate, Offset, Rotate 26 July 2003
  267. Oh look ... 24 July 2003
  268. Mozilla 1.5 alpha 24 July 2003
  269. Greatest Cars 21 July 2003
  270. “Javacode” 19 July 2003
  271. Optimizing ASP 17 July 2003
  272. Scrubbin' and soapin' 16 July 2003
  273. Textpattern Users 15 July 2003
  274. Hot 15 July 2003
  275. Flirtations with Windows XP 13 July 2003
  276. Sleight of hand 08 July 2003
  277. Echo, Charlie, Bravo 07 July 2003
  278. Ti Waits for No Man 05 July 2003
  279. Yes! 05 July 2003
  280. Object, Echo, Tango 04 July 2003
  281. Adobe, what have you done? 02 July 2003
  282. Bandwidth: big issue? 30 June 2003
  283. Popup blocking for IE 26 June 2003
  284. Safari goes gold 23 June 2003
  285. Email 'more important' than phone 21 June 2003
  286. Blurred 18 June 2003
  287. Bye bye IE, IE goodbye 14 June 2003
  288. GIF patent 12 June 2003
  289. Deja Fruit 12 June 2003
  290. Odd(ie) evening 10 June 2003
  291. Cheap accommodation 02 June 2003
  292. No future stand-alone IE? 31 May 2003
  293. Comments bug fix 28 May 2003
  294. Why the Internet is a cloud 23 May 2003
  295. The people's web 20 May 2003
  296. Struggle 18 May 2003
  297. Drab 15 May 2003
  298. Textile bookmarklet 13 May 2003
  299. Switching on the LAMP 09 May 2003
  300. Greetings from Planet Cotton Wool 04 May 2003
  301. An Inspector Calls 28 April 2003
  302. On the subject of RSS 23 April 2003
  303. No upgrade yet 21 April 2003
  304. Web users don't read 17 April 2003
  305. RSS problems 17 April 2003
  306. DIY-related injuries 13 April 2003
  307. Upgrades immanent 10 April 2003
  308. The Matrix: Re-wotnot'd 09 April 2003
  309. Blogdaq 09 April 2003
  310. Mozilla 1.4a 03 April 2003
  311. Hardware and headaches 02 April 2003
  312. They call it progress 31 March 2003
  313. Screen everywhere I look 27 March 2003
  314. Microsoft quits W3C panel 26 March 2003
  315. Calling all Dreamweaver extension developers 25 March 2003
  316. I find this guy to be profoundly unnecessary 23 March 2003
  317. I'm a big OS X fan 21 March 2003
  318. I want one of these 21 March 2003
  319. Alcohol inside 20 March 2003
  320. CVS: Considerably Vexing System 18 March 2003
  321. New rhino on the block 16 March 2003
  322. Feeling the neighbors 15 March 2003
  323. Who threw the final stone? 14 March 2003
  324. Internet Fridge 13 March 2003
  325. Can-do 13 March 2003
  326. IT & IE 12 March 2003
  327. Nightmare on App Street 12 March 2003
  328. I have to start sometime 11 March 2003

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About Drew McLellan

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Drew McLellan (@drewm) has been hacking on the web since around 1996 following an unfortunate incident with a margarine tub. Since then he’s spread himself between both front- and back-end development projects, and now is Director and Senior Web Developer at edgeofmyseat.com in Maidenhead, UK (GEO: 51.5217, -0.7177). Prior to this, Drew was a Web Developer for Yahoo!, and before that primarily worked as a technical lead within design and branding agencies for clients such as Nissan, Goodyear Dunlop, Siemens/Bosch, Cadburys, ICI Dulux and Virgin.net. Somewhere along the way, Drew managed to get himself embroiled with Dreamweaver and was made an early Macromedia Evangelist for that product. This lead to book deals, public appearances, fame, glory, and his eventual downfall.

Picking himself up again, Drew is now a strong advocate for best practises, and stood as Group Lead for The Web Standards Project 2006-08. He has had articles published by A List Apart, Adobe, and O’Reilly Media’s XML.com, mostly due to mistaken identity. Drew is a proponent of the lower-case semantic web, and is currently expending energies in the direction of the microformats movement, with particular interests in making parsers an off-the-shelf commodity and developing simple UI conventions. He writes here at all in the head and, with a little help from his friends, at 24 ways.

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