Google Checkout arrives in the UK
Friday, April 13th, 2007The Official Google Checkout Blog reports that Google Checkout has arrived in the UK. Via Mashable
The Official Google Checkout Blog reports that Google Checkout has arrived in the UK. Via Mashable
Create freeform tag clouds from any text with TagCrowd
Wednesday, April 11th, 2007TagCrowd allows you to create a tag cloud from any text source. My good friend Paul gave the excellent suggesting of trying this out with a plain text version of your CV.
CakePHP without mod_rewrite
Wednesday, April 11th, 2007In order to use the CakePHP framework (version 1.2 alpha) without mod_rewrite you must uncomment the line in /app/config/core.php that looks like this: define ('BASE_URL', env('SCRIPT_NAME'));
HTML 5
Tuesday, April 10th, 2007HTML 5: here we come. I think this is a great move by Opera, Mozilla and Apple. Obviously no one really expects Microsoft to be able to, you know, play well with others.
Device Media Is Write Protected
Thursday, April 5th, 2007Having recently bought usb memory key I was having trouble getting it to mount correctly on my Windows machine at work. It would occasionally return a 'device media not recognized' error on insertion, and sometimes would seemingly mount but never display in My Computer. I downloaded the HP ...
Text Colours for Readability and Firefox
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007It seems, according to some research into readability by Alyson Hill of Austin State University, that green text on a yellow background is the most 'readable'. The specific hex values she suggests are: color:#006600; background-color:#ffffcc; I'm now using these as the default colours in a page where none are specified (in itself ...
PHP Web Server for Windows Mobile Pocket PCs
Monday, April 2nd, 2007Pocket HPH is a project aiming to develop a windows-mobile powered php-compatible web server. Along the lines of Pocket ASP and vxWeb this will be a dynamic database-enabled (SQLite) web server on the WinCE platform. The project seems to be having trouble getting indexed by search engines with ...
wxJavaScript
Wednesday, March 28th, 2007wxJavascript sounds like a cool idea: port wxWidgets to javascript. It also sounds like they are taking the project in a new direction beyond building pure GUI apps.
e is for editor
Wednesday, March 28th, 2007Working across multiple platforms tends to leave you wishing they had more in common. I'm thankful that there is a TextMate compatible editor for Windows called simply e
Firefox Plugins Reloading on Window Resize
Friday, March 23rd, 2007Firefox seems to reload plugins, for example flash and quicktime, when the window is resized, but only under certain circumstances. If the scrollbars change (from being there to not being there or vice versa) then the effect occurs, as it apparently does if you alter a containing element's css position from ...