Author Archives: Craig Lotter

About Craig Lotter

Craig Lotter is an established web developer and application programmer, with strong creative urges (which keep bursting out at the most inopportune moments) and a seemingly insatiable need to love all things animated. Living in the beautiful coastal town of Gordon's Bay in South Africa, he games, develops, takes in animated fare, trains under the Funakoshi karate style and for the most part, simply enjoys life with his amazing wife and daughter. Oh, and he draws ever now and then too.

Android App: SmartTraining

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Although you wouldn’t say it by the look of me, I do actually do a fair bit of exercise and training. Because I’m loathe to spend a lot of money on training aids, I was looking for a low cost … Continue reading

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Touchwork officially releases Utiviti on the SurveyThumb Platform!

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For the last two or so years I have been the lead architect and developer on one of Touchwork’s flagship products, SurveyThumb, an extremely flexible, fully customizable online survey management system which is geared in particular to mobile phone data … Continue reading

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Check for Rootkit Infections in your Ubuntu install with Rootkit Detector (chkrootkit)

Although virus infections and rootkit exploits are fairly uncommon in Linux, and thus Ubuntu by extension, be it desktop installations or hosting servers, it never hurts to make sure that you are clean, and one of the better known Linux … Continue reading

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How to Remove the Google Search Results Redirect Virus using Kapersky Lab’s TDSSKiller Rootkit Remover

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I picked up a nasty virus infection on my main work development PC, running Windows Vista Business. I don’t know where or how it got picked up, but in all likelihood it was from a poisoned web page running some … Continue reading

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Highlight Your PHP Code Syntax with the WordPress Plugin, SyntaxHighlighter Evolved!

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A website like this one involves the posting of a lot of code snippets and examples in a variety of development languages. Because code often looks a lot like a plain old bunch of textual gibberish, the ability to syntax-highlight … Continue reading

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