This site is primarily here for me to post information about the various free software projects I'm working on and make files available. The other stuff on here is just random; some of it is information that might be useful to other people and the rest is just....well....random.

The site is coded in PHP, using my preferred web development environment. All code is 100% standards compliant XHTML 1.0 Strict.



The site has a MySQL database backend and is formatted with Cascading Style Sheets. Some areas of this site are protected from e-mail harvesters and comment spammers using Http:BL from Project Honeypot. If your IP address is on the blacklist, you may not be able to access my blog or contact details. If you believe you are incorrectly listed, please contact Project Honeypot. The web server is also protected by ModSecurity - if you experience problems, please follow the instructions on the error pages.

For many years this site was coded in HTML, but in late 2005 I decided that most browsers could now cope well enough with XHTML. There is still one notable exception which doesn't support the application/xhtml+xml (or in fact any) MIME type which the W3C specify as the required type for XHTML pages, so I had to fudge it to ensure the browser concerned gets a text/html MIME type instead. As a result, I'm not interested in any bugs my site seems to have when viewed in Microsoft Internet Explorer. Go tell it to Microsoft.

My blog is powered by WordPress.

This site is hosted on a virtual machine from Bytemark. It should therefore be reasonably fast - please let me know if it isn't. Both IPv6 and SSL connectivity is available if desired [switch to SSL].

The VM is, of course, running Debian GNU/Linux.

On the main site, all the text that I have written along with all images I have taken/created (including those in the photo album) are © David Johnson and may be used under the terms of the Creative Commons by-sa-2.0-uk license unless otherwise stated.

The content of my blog is © David Johnson and may be used under the terms of the Creative Commons by-nd-2.0-uk license. Any source code posted on my blog is public domain unless otherwise stated. Source code is provided in the hope that it will be useful, but without any warranty; without even the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose - use it entirely at your own risk. Comments are the property of the poster.

The licensing of this content in no way restricts your fair use rights as granted by the Copyright, Design and Patents Act 1988.

Please note that the XML icon used on my site is originally taken from Harvard University. I use it under the terms of the Creative Commons by-sa license.