Steven Mileham – General Geekery

To go alongside a fantastic colour scheme (check out the post on Adobe Kuler) I love the idea of coming up with a design using a great looking font.  With the theme I’m using at the moment “Word to your mother” I was obviously in a hip-hop mood, so I ended up using some great graffiti fonts.

Well, I tracked those fonts down through a couple of freeware font sites, a great example of which is Fonts 500. Five pages, each with 100 fonts on, taken from the popular downloads of a selection of other font sites.
Great stuff.

XAMPP is a great tool for web development. Its basically a complete web server environment, well, Apache, MySQL and PHP, so all the important stuff. If you need a Java Enterprise environment, there’s even a Tomcat plugin for it. Best of all, it fits on a USB key and can run straight from there, making it your own portable server, great for demoing that “Work in progress” web application.