_{Jamie Balfour's}Articles

Prepared statements are something that every SQL developer should know about and yet, I asked several and not one of them knew what they are. This article intends to explore these fantastic tools and explain their benefits.

Sometimes it's a pain building a webpage with a sidebar. It took me long enough to get my own sidebar the way it is. This article explores the ways in which this can be done and which solution offers the best approach.

Browsers leverage caches, so why don't they just keep a copy of important libraries?

HTTP is old, and it's not moved with the times. In this article I make my first suggestion to improve it.

Whilst PHP has been one of my all time favourite language for what it can do, it has a very bad level of inconsistency through out the syntax.

It is sad how the web has become this place where no individuals will create a custom website tailored to their own personality and requirements. The web consists of so many prebuilt sites that individuality is disappearing altogether.

This is my 2014 list of suggestions to the W3C for improving CSS. These are all things I'd like to see in the CSS4 specification when it gets considered.

Have you ever noticed how great mobile web browser development is? This article goes into a bit of depth about how CSS is miles ahead on mobile devices.