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A quick tip for traveling abroad with gadgets If you’re anything like me (by which I don’t mean greying & fat) then you’ll probably take more than a couple of gadgets on holiday ...
dconstruct 08 compo Those fine fellows at clear left are once again running dconstruct the peerless Brightonian one day web conference. I was there last year and thoroughly ...
How not to deliver a good customer experience When purchasing software online you expect the process to go something like this: Choose your software Add to cart Pay Download Software nice and simple ...
FOWD 2008 London - (the conference) FOWD 2008 got off to a promising start when I met Jeremy Keith getting off the Tube, we chatted as we waited in the monster ...
jQuery Intellisense in Visual Studio 2008 We’ve started using jQuery quite heavily to power our javascript widgets - without exception everyone who’s used it here has had their own little jQuery ...
Sky broadband customer? Moving house? Read This! We’re moving house next Thursday, so last week I phoned Sky to let them know. I booked in installation of Sky TV at our new ...
I Changed my theme After threatening to do it for almost a year, I’ve finally got round to changing the theme for this blog. I had planned to create ...
TomTom Go 520T On Christmas Eve Laura apologised to me because the gift she had ordered for me online over two weeks previously had failed to arrive from ...
fiftytwo o-eight I’ve started my little photo challenge. For fiftytwo o-eight I’m planning to post a new photo each week to my flickr account. The hope is ...
This year… I don’t tend to make New Year’s resolutions, I guess it’s because generally I’m happy with the status quo. That said, last year I promised ...
A better way to update your facebook status from Twitter I just noticed that Facebook have stopped pre pending their statuses with “is:” which, in my opinion is a good thing. Unfortunately they haven’t stopped ...
How to create a sticky footer in ASP.net pages When we were developing the Tesco Property Market website there was a requirement to be position the footer either at the bottom of the browser ...
Quick tip for using XHTML Strict with ASP.net One thing that has always infuriated me with .net is it’s insistence on adding an invalid name attribute to the asp.net form*. About a month ...