Slayeroffice Favelet Suite
Jul 25th
A handy set of tools which work as a set of bookmarks in Firefox. Not completely reliable, I've encountered some weird redirection behaviour and javascript errors, but when they do work they're very cool. more »
Hosting AJAX on S3 with Openfount
Jul 11th
I mentioned S3 in my short post about Jeff Barr's talk in London, I also said I'd post more about it in the coming weeks. To make up for failing to do that, here's a post by someone else about S3 :) Using S3 as the scalable hosting solution of the futu… more »
Strict mode bookmarklet
Jul 5th
A handy little bookmarklet for telling you whether or not your page is rendering in quirks mode. more »
Time Breakdown of Modern Web Design
Jun 22nd
Also on the front page, but I couldn't figure out a permalink. Warning, language is not work safe :)
Edit: The link broke, so I've uploaded my own copy. more »
Apple vs The Bloggers
Jun 22nd
Not that I'm likely to be posting any trade secrets myself, or that a ruling in a California court is likely to offer me much protection here in London, or that I really believe I fit the definition of 'journalist' implied by the appeal court (which, no… more »
But we know what we want!
Jun 1st
An excellent analogy to explain requirements analysis to non-techies. more »
London Javascript Night
May 26th
This was an excellent evening, not least because I won a prize! I particularly enjoyed Simon Willison's talk and also Leo & Leon's, as well as Dan Webb's DOMBuilder framework. more »
Jeff Barr (Amazon Web Services) in London - May 15th!
May 9th
"When you think about Web Services you think about Amazon. And that's how good a job Jeff Barr, web services evangelist at Amazon, does!
Speaking in London on May 15th, for one night only, we're fortunate to have Jeff presenting on their stable of Web… more »
Audigy 2 working in FC5!
Apr 23rd
Decided to have a proper go at getting my Audigy working in Fedora Core 5 this evening. A bit of googling led me to the linked blog post which in turn led me to the solution. Basically ignore the sound card detection applet in Gnome - it seems to disab… more »
E17 on SuSE 10
Apr 16th
You can also get eyecandy for SuSE - instructions for installing at the above URL. I did have a small problem getting the menu generator to work - it kept falling over on ksim.desktop, but I just moved that file temporarily and it worked fine after that… more »
E17 on FC5
Apr 15th
Enlightenment version 17 is getting close to completion - it is mostly useable as an every day desktop anyway, and it looks just beautiful. There is a repo for Fedora at this location which makes installation as easy as typing 'yum install' with a few a… more »
Hello! HTML5 and CSS3 available now
Early access to HTML5 in Action available now