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I just spent an hour fannying around with Amarok because it suddenly refused to play Ogg Vorbis encoded files. The correct solution turned out to be in this thread on the Ubuntu forums. The problem I was getting in Amarok was a message like this every… more »

I've had another article published on developerWorks, a short one this time, which looks at utilizing the new Microformats API in the upcoming Firefox 3.0 from within an extension. With it being a purposely short article I had to gloss over some of the… more »

Review: The evolution of the Flash Platform & ActionScript 3.0 at Skills Matter, Sekforde Street, London 18:30 to 20:00 This was my final London Web Week event, my curiosity for Flash had been piqued somewhat by my attendance at the onAIR London ev… more »

Review: Web Standards Group London Meetup at Westminster University, New Cavendish Street campus, London 19:00 to 21:00 Concepts of Findability (Cyril Doussin) - This was a whirlwind tour of the subject of findability, mostly based on Peter Morville's A… more »

It's London Web Week, which means there are lots of events on. I plan to go to three of them myself, the first of which was last night's Microformats vEvent. Review: Microformats vEvent at The Yorkshire Grey, Holborn, London 19:00 to 21:30 The venue w… more »

Skip the reading and go straight to the latest version of protoaculous. A while back I started using protoaculous.js, a combined and compressed version of the Prototype.js and Scriptaculous in a single file. Unfortunately, as time went by and both Pr… more »

I've had another article published on developerWorks, this time a tutorial so you'll have to register to view it. It moves on from my previous article with some actual code examples of a lot of the stuff I talked about before. Check it out and let me k… more »