Bonetree Blog

In light of the results of the recent Wordpress Has-Patch Marathon I thought I’d write a little bit about my experiences with the Wordpress community. I’ve been using WP for quite a while now – this blog is obviously powered by it – and I have to say, I’m a big fan. Like any software [...]

When I quit my job back in December I figured I could get by doing freelance web development and maybe a part-time job. I’ve been doing some freelance stuff on the side for a few years now, but I’ve never relied on it as my main source of income. About two months ago I had [...]

I don’t know how other people work, but looking at more difficult concepts in pictures usually helps me to wrap my head around them much quicker. To be honest since I’ve started using CakePHP I haven’t had to worry too much about the nitty gritty of SQL but I came across this article the other [...]

I’ve been doing web development for a bit over 5 years now, and still I find the whole concept of e-commerce a little hard to grasp. Money always complicated things ;) I’ve never actually worked on a site that required payment processing, but now that I’m doing more and more freelance work it’s starting to [...]

Most people involved in development will often come across the need to show someone else their code. This happens to me almost on a daily basis so I finally decided to whip up a quick little app to help with this. I downloaded GeSHi to do the syntax highlighting and came up with http://box.bonetree.net/. It’s [...]