Howdy

My name is Rowan Lewis, Im a web developer and standards enthusiast currently living on the Gold Coast, Australia where I work for a brilliant design and development firm known as R&B Creative Communication.

Everything CentOS does, it does wrong

A short rant about how utterly terrible Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS are.

Im raging

Powerful navigation in Symphony CMS

Most of the time creating a menu for your site is easy, but what if you want a little more control?  In this tutorial, Ill show you how to reclaim your sites navigation.

Learn to manage your navigation

Combine Symphony CMS with Nginx

Nginx is a powerful, lightweight web server, today Ill show you how to rewrite your URLs for a typical Symphony installation.

Rewrite your website

Text formatting,
an experiment with functional languages

Ever since I started writing Bitter, Ive been wondering how to apply functional programming concepts to creating a better text formatter.

Thoughts on functional text formatting

Bitter, syntax highlighter

Way back in 2008 I started writing a syntax highlighter with the goal of making is both easy to use and easy to develop, not an easy task by any measure.

An introduction to Bitter