Gavin Holt

Hello all! The past year has proven to be a bit mental for me in terms of time to put into writing and sharing code! Hopefully, over the next few weeks, I will have more time to dedicate to the Blog – I have learned a lot in the past year and a half and [...]

When building a web application I find user feedback invaluable at all stages of the development process, both from a testing team to everyday users of the final product – all of those users will have their own unique opinions. Gathering and acting upon this feedback can help every designer / developer to improve their [...]

Forms are the bain of many web-developers, with the need for data validation, CSRF (Cross-site request forgery) protection, form manipulation and integration with web applications. They take a long time to code and can be extremely fiddly to get right! However, my good friend and fellow developer Richard Willars has came up with a fantastic [...]

Since I have got into building dynamic websites, I have often found myself building forms to gather dates and times of events, birthdays, booking requests. In fact, when building large applications, it is almost guaranteed you will need to take some form of date from a user. But, when building websites, we can never trust [...]

Ya-Tube started off as a small exercise in writing large, scalable code that could be applied to a multitude of different applications. What came from it was an idea for a social network which built on the well established format of a social network that took a life of its own. Ya-Tube ended up turning [...]

Visit Website I was asked to design and develop an online website for Airdrie Golf Club to help them more effectively share information with their members and to allow potential members and visitors see what the club has to offer. As the sole person working on the project, I was responsible for the design, images [...]

This site is my little piece of the great wide interweb. Powered using WordPress with a custom design, this site is a showcase of my work and hosts some articles and free scripts that I hope will be of use to my fellow web developers. After about 7 weeks I became unhappy with my existing [...]

Welcome back to my little piece of the web, After a few server problems I am now back, with a new design (Still being tweaked) and some new content. I am much happier with this design, although I give it 5 minutes before I am itching to change it again.   So please feel free [...]

Having received a Samsung R60 plus Laptop for my Christmas, I was stunned by the Aero Interface that comes with all the premium versions of Vista. One thing I was un-happy about was the battery life of my laptop. From what I had read users who had the standard R60 with XP Pro installed where [...]

I was recently asked by a friend how he could forward his Hotmail email address to a new one that he can get on his phone. After much head scratching and cursing Microsoft I found the answer. To do this you must login to the Hotmail/Windows Live Mail web site.