Gavin Holt

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 [...]

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.