UK Website Design and Development
Hello, and Welcome to my Portfolio and Blog
Welcome! My name is George Palmer, I’m a professional web developer specialising mainly in PHP. I have over 7 years experience developing dynamic database driven applications in several languages and on many platforms.
I generally work from home in Wiltshire, England, but I’m also available to work on site if required. I’m highly competent in many programming/scripting languages and can work with several different Applications, API’s, CMS’s and Frameworks.
My working relationship with many locally based designers and developers allows me to offer you a full package, from design through to development, and finally hosting and website management.
My aim is to deliver high quality, affordable web applications meeting more than your requirements and exceeding your expectations. For a truly honest service, delivered on time you’ve come to the right place.
For more information on the services I offer please take a look here.
For a free estimate please feel free to contact me here.
Backup Your Database into XML
Posted on August 24th, 2009 by George Palmer
MySQL, PHP, Uncategorized, XML 
Comments (3)
I can’t stress enough the importance of keeping regular backups of your data. For many a website it doesn’t get more essential than backing up the database. Imagine loosing your entire database, the consequences could be disastrous.
Here’s a helpful snippet of PHP that outputs your database as XML.
<?php
header("Content-type: text/xml"); //We’re going to display the XML [...]
Nicola’s Flowers
Posted on June 28th, 2009 by George Palmer Portfolio, Uncategorized 1 Comment
This site was developed to compliment directory submissions. The client realised that although their business was well represented on the Internet, there were very few directories or similar that allowed them to display enough information. The total build cost for this site was just under £60.
Implementing Singleton Base Class
Posted on June 10th, 2009 by George PalmerWith the very exciting PHP 5.3 nearing release, i thought i’d write about one of the very useful functions making its way in to this version. The new get_called_class() function on its doesn’t really do a lot, but this simple little function plugs one of the many gaping holes in PHPs object model.
Just one of [...]
World of Warcraft Portal Site
Posted on May 28th, 2009 by George Palmer Portfolio, Uncategorized No Comments
This World of Warcraft portal site was developed using my own CMS (Piranha CMS) integrated with SMF forums. The design was created by a colleague of mine and all content was provided by the client, resulting in a very fast build. The bulk of the work was the CMS integration into their existing SMF installation.
The [...]
FreeBeeHosting
Posted on May 15th, 2009 by George Palmer Portfolio, Uncategorized Comments (13)
This is the latest item from my old portfolio. I’m going to start a fresh here and get some more recent stuff up. If you like what you see feel free to contact me for a quote.
FreeBeeHosting was a little out of the ordinary for me. I actually purchased the very small (20 users) free [...]
Changing the Host Name in Linux
Posted on May 4th, 2009 by George Palmer Linux, Uncategorized 1 Comment
After purchasing another dedicated cent OS server last week and experiencing some issues with DirectAdmin i pinpointed the problem. The host name was completely wrong, although not a huge deal it was causing DA to throw a tantrum.
This is so simple to put right but i couldn’t for the life of me remember how to. [...]
Finally updated my site
Posted on May 1st, 2009 by George Palmer General, Portfolio, Uncategorized 1 Comment
I’ve finally got round to updating my site. You should see lots of useful information and i’ll try to keep an up-to-date portfolio this time around. Please let me know what you think.
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