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Review: Andy Mulholland - The End of Business as Usual at BCS, 5 Southampton Street, London WC2 October 15th, 18:15 to 20:15 I went to this BCS North London branch event because they usually have an 'enterprisey' slant and this one was supposed to be a… more »

At work we decided to purchase a few .mobi domains, not because we have any particularly compelling mobile content, but to boost the web presence of our mobile product and, mostly, to make sure no-one else snapped up the domain names we wanted. However t… more »

It's been a while since I posted anything, I actually have two half written posts sitting in draft status which I'll get around to eventually, but this morning I'm inspired to write :) I followed a link from raganwald's post to The Little MLer on Amaz… more »

I ran into a weird (but, in retrospect, entirely predictable) problem generating dates. The code in question is supposed to kick in when the user is booking a resource for multiple days - this day each week for four weeks, this day each month for four m… more »

Another in the long running saga "Dumb things Rob did with Javascript." I ran across a strange error in some fairly simple Ajax code the other day. Here's the code:function () {new Ajax.Request(urlTxtSrch+'&txtTEXTSRCH=' + encodeURIComponent( $('tx… more »

Also related to my little signage project in the last post, one problem I encountered was the IE would insist on displaying a vertical scrollbar even though it wasn't required - and since I knew the exact pixel dimensions of the display I knew I didn't n… more »

Today I've been working on electronic signage, to display meeting details on small screen outside of meeting rooms. The details themselves come from the booking system sold by my employers and the data is sucked out from the back end database by a fairl… more »