Rob Lewis\'s Author Archive

How Jerry Seinfeld Keeps Me Blogging & Jogging

0Rob Lewis2nd Jun 2008Blog

Been a little quiet around here lately hasn’t it? Plus the design could do with a bit of an overhaul, as there’s a More »

FeedDemon Now Free

0Rob Lewis9th Jan 2008Tools

My favourite RSS feed reader, FeedDemon, is now available for free!
Developer Nick Bradbury has just announced that FeedDemon, plus the rest of the More »

Detailed Stats For Flickr Pro Users

0Rob Lewis13th Dec 2007Gallery, Tools

I’ve been a Flickr Pro user for a while now, finding it a really simple way of archiving and sharing photos (in the More »

Google Chart API: Generate Images of Charts

0Rob Lewis6th Dec 2007Tools, Web, Web Development

Google has a new tool (at least I haven’t come across it before) which allows you to generate PNG images of charts simply More »

Email Standards Project Launches

1Rob Lewis28th Nov 2007Marketing

HTML email is a thorny subject.
Some people love it, others hate it. Whatever your point of view, the fact remains that whilst it More »

A Bit of Fry…

0Rob Lewis19th Sep 2007Blog

Via Simon Willison’s link feed, I learned that comedian / writer / actor / intellectual Stephen Fry now has his own blog.
What surprised More »

The Night I Got To See James Brown

0Rob Lewis14th Jun 2007Music

I’ve just found a file on my PC with a write-up of the James Brown gig I went to almost 2 years ago. More »

London 2012 Olympics Branding Launched

0Rob Lewis4th Jun 2007Design

Today sees the launch of the branding for the Olympic Games in London in 2012, and my initial reaction was what a mess More »

Letter To YouTube

0Rob Lewis16th Apr 2007Web

Dear YouTube,
This is just a quick letter to say that I am finally starting to “get” what you’re all about.
It’s taken me a More »

Changing Your Wordpress Permalink Structure

2Rob Lewis7th Jan 2007Web Development, Web Development, Wordpress

There’s been a couple of times where I’ve wanted to alter the permalink structure of my Wordpress blogs after having the site running More »

Error Messages With Personality

1Rob Lewis4th Nov 2006Web

Domain name registrar 123-Reg has a fairly unique set of error messages which show an unusual amount of personality. Amongst the errors I More »

Firefox 2 Out Now

2Rob Lewis25th Oct 2006Web Development, Browsers, Web Development, Browsers, Firefox

Hot on the heels of Internet Explorer 7, Mozilla has released Firefox 2.
You can read more about the new features in FF2 in More »

Firefox 2 Preview Available

1Rob Lewis15th Oct 2006Web Development, Browsers, Web Development, Browsers, Firefox, Web Development

The Mozilla Foundation has recently released a preview version of the next Firefox release – Firefox 2 RC2. Although it won’t be stable More »

Regular Expression Resources

0Rob Lewis15th Oct 2006Web Development, PHP, Web Development

Regular Expressions (RegEx) are something that all web developers will need to use at some time or other (and if they use don’t More »

Tools For Administering MySQL

0Rob Lewis5th Oct 2006Web Development, Database, Web Development, Database, MySQL, Tools

After having happily used phpMyAdmin for a few years, I was recently looking for something a little more robust to manage the MySQL More »

Top 5 Tips For New Dads

3Rob Lewis19th Sep 2006Miscellany

With Kate having reached her 1st birthday, I’ve been looking back over the year and thinking about what I have learned from the More »

Happy 1st Birthday Puddin’

2Rob Lewis16th Sep 2006Miscellany

Our darling daughter Kate has reached her 1st birthday.

The Beat Featured In .net Magazine

0Rob Lewis3rd Aug 2006Portfolio, Web

Well, featured might be a little bit of a strong term to use, but I was very pleased to find out that The More »

What’s On Your Dashboard?

1Rob Lewis10th Jul 2006WV4, Web

Every day, the first thing I do when firing up the internet is load up what I like to call my “web dashboard”. More »

Friendly Database Errors In Wordpress

3Rob Lewis6th Feb 2006Web

I’ve just been thinking about the error reporting in Wordpress, prompted by flicking through 37signal’s Defensive Design For the Web.
Although Wordpress comes with More »