If you actually know me on the interwebs, you may be wondering why the hell the name on this site has changed from alex to matt all of a sudden.
Alex was an alias I used when I first started using the web (back 5 or so years ago). Recently I’ve started using my real name – matt – (it’s definitely my real one!) as a lot of people I know in the real world get really confused when I point them at a site written by an “alex”.
Hopefully I should be writing a few more posts in the weeks to come 
If you’ve ever tried to find an svn host that’s willing to host personal, private projects for free, you’re probably well aware that are practically none. One of the best ones used to be Assembla, until they changed their business model so that only OS projects could be hosted for free.
Other free hosts include beanstalkapp and Spring Loops, both of whom give you at least one repository, 100mb of space and a few user accounts to play with. This is great for one project, but when you start another one / run out of disk space you have to create a new account with a different email address, a different url etc. At the end of the day you’re just wasting time that you could be using to make the next awesome application. Continue reading
I know I haven’t written anything here for quite a while, but I just wanted to make a quick post about this totally amazing awesome MVC php framework called kohana. It was originally a fork of codeigniter (Another good php framework, albeit php4 grounded at the moment), although it’s come a long way since then.
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The other day I was trying to find a way to limit the amount of characters that a user could enter into a textbox. For some reason you can’t set the maxlength attribute on textareas, so I decided to make this little jquery snippet that truncates a user’s input once they go past a certain limit.
Now I’m no computer wizz, but I don’t think this should be happening…
This is my first attempt at the ‘blogging’ thing. I’ve wanted to get my own website for a while, and I think this is a good a time as any to have a stab at it!
Sees you around
Alex
