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‘Be’ Internet – Very Nice Indeed
I have been on the case of changing my ISP for a little while now. I have had a Pipex Business package for a few years, latterly at 2mb and haven’t had any problems to speak of. My only issue is that...
View ArticleDeploying Web Apps with Powershell
During my recent forays into the world of Rails I have discovered, as do most people working with Rails, the deployment tool Capistrano. For those of you unfamiliar with it, in a nutshell you end up...
View ArticleThe Intuitive Naming Awards…
I found myself needing to subtract a number of days from a date today in SQL Server. I couldn’t think what the function name was that would do this for me so I speculatively typed in DATESUBTRACT,...
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Classic ASP on Vista/IIS 7.0
I have a couple of classic ASP ‘applications’ that, through the ministrations of some malevolent spirit, keep landing on my desk(top) needing some new feature or other. I didn’t write them and they...
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Clicking more than once may charge your credit card multiple times…
I bought some tickets from the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Hall (that sounds like I’m all very cultured but, sorry to disappoint, they were for a pirate fancy dress party). At the checkout I was...
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Fix Jerky Scriptaculous (Script.aculo.us) Animation Effects
I was adding some BlindDown, BlindUp animation effects to something I was working on today with Scriptaculous and had a bit of an issue with jerky animation. I’ve had this before and ended up ditching...
View ArticleBeware of GMail not enforcing an SSL connection…
I’ve just been reading this: TG Daily – Point and click Gmail hacking at Black Hat (thanks for passing that on Al) Basically, if you aren’t logging into GMail using SSL then someone can grab your...
View ArticleE-TextEditor V1.0 Released
E-TextEditor, the Windows text-editor inspired by and based upon the bundles for TextMate has come out of beta. If you haven’t tried it you should give it a whirl. It is definitely the closest us,...
View ArticleLitmus – Web Page and Email Testing Platform
Today I heard about the impending launch of the new incarnation of the SiteVista web page and email testing tool ‘Litmus‘. A quick email later and I got myself a shiny beta invite and took it for a...
View ArticleVista Audio on Virtual PC 2007
If you are setting a Vista Virtual PC image up in Virtual PC 2007 you’ll soon realise that the audio doesn’t work. You’ll do a bit of Googling and find that Virtual PC 2007 has a ‘special’ audio set up...
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