Welcome

Coffeerings is the personal home page of John Walker, a UK based web developer. I have been commercially involved in the web for over 6 years having studied Multi-Media at university prior to that.  I've recently moved to Leeds to work for VLE (Virtual Learning Platform) provider Frogtrade, previously I worked at Birmingham based advertising agency WAA as Lead Developer.

Outside of Frog I am an keen advocate of Open Source projects PHP-WAX, a lightweight php framework for PHP5 web applications and Wildfire CMS, a CMS plugin built for the PHP-WAX php framework. I also run a portfolio site for artists http://www.alltradeart.co.uk, a completely free service allowing artists to display their work on the internet.

Recent Articles

Serving my Cache using Lighttpd

Lighttpd is widely know as a powerful lightweight server that is particularly useful at serving static content.  With this in mind I migrated the responsibility of serving of all images on ... read more

Benchmarking PHP Frameworks

There are many reasons for choosing one framework over another, personally, my primary concern is making the development cycle as painless as possible but I can't really ignore some of the real world implications of using framewo... read more

Rails and Apache

In what appears to be a very useful find 'Phusion Passenger' offers powerful (open source) deployment option for your ROR sites. It's an out-the-box Apache module with a 2 line install. Paired ... read more

Useful bit of Javascript

Never thought about using javascript for this before but I had a requirement to force the window to the top of the page whilst executing a javascript onClick event.  Very simple but thought I'd note it down for future refere... read more