BU-Harvard citation template for BibDesk/Bibtex

A couple of years ago I wrote a basic template for BU Bournemouth University Harvard style citations and I’ve finally uploaded it for general use. This template can be imported into an application such as Bibdesk and used as the export template to correctly format citations, enabling fast and accurate exports, with drag and drop citations. The script is located in the Github repo here: https://github.c ... Read more

Basic Javascript client-side form validation

Below is an example of some code that I use for client-side validation on webpages. This is to validate client input into forms and uses Javascript to do so. The code is also available on Github: https://github.com/philhudson91/mustached-archer   <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <script type="text/javascript"> ... Read more

A critical examination of the role of narcissism within Instagram

All illustrative examples used within this essay have been removed. A critical examination of the role of narcissism within Instagram Defined by its creators (Instagram, 2012), “It’s a fast, beautiful and fun way to share your photos with friends and family.” This essay seeks to argue whether Instagram is dependent upon narcissistic identity construction to routinise users’ use of the service. The three com ... Read more

Business report example: Mango’s marketing strategy

This report is based upon a case study about Mango in 2009. Introduction This report consists of two parts; the first analyses Mango’s strategic position, and the second generates and analyses Mango’s strategic options. Mango’s current strategic position This section uses academic models and frameworks to analyse Mango’s current strategic position based upon data within the case study. Johnson et al. (2008) ... Read more

Student Finance left this in their code by accident?

Leaving a help page in like this is a bit rookie: ... Read more

How to post date/time of form submission using MySQL and PHP

When a user submits a form of some-kind, it’s often useful to know the date/time of when they did so. Surprisingly, the internet provides little documentation for implementing this, so I have written this post. Method 1 – Hidden date field within the form: Here’s the code of a basic form: <form action="insert.php" method="post" name="input"><label for="user">Username:</label>< ... Read more

New website launched for The Laughing Pod

Two days ago I launched a new website for The Laughing Pod Comedy Club. You can visit The Laughing Pod’s new website here. The main purpose of the website was to provide back-end events management functionality as well as creating a dynamic, contemporary look. It also features a built-in mobile site. I will be writing separate posts about some of the different pieces of code I used that maybe useful for oth ... Read more

A few shots from Camden Lock area in London

Hi all, Here are a few shots that I took today around the Camden Lock area in London. I hope you like them! ... Read more

HOW TO: Host a Google Apps domain on a different server whilst retaining Google Apps’s functionality

When I initially started this blog, I used the simple Blogspot application that Google provides, whilst this was fairly easy to use I didn’t like using a sub-domain of Blogspot itself, so opted to purchase my own domain. I purchased the domain through Google (which acts as an agent for GoDaddy) but was restricted by the lack of webmaster options available. When using Google Apps, you have to follow GoogleR ... Read more

Hello, WordPress

Hello, World! After reaching 50,000 page views using my original Blogger blog I felt that it was time for a change – I needed more freedom to manipulate by site and WordPress was the solution. I’ve set up all of the redirects, so Blogger is no more. Also, a lot more of my design and photography work will be on the site – the header about this post changes on every page refresh to one of my images. ... Read more