I have both a desktop and a laptop that I work on and use Git Extensions. Every so often I create a branch on one machine, commit it and then push it to my remote origin. My problem is that when I boot up my other machine, I can never remember how to see that [...]
Playing lossless codecs like APE or FLAC in itunes or on your iphone is not so easy as there is no native support for them. Converting them to the Apple equivalent is also quite tricky. Many people recommend installing media players that support this conversion or purchasing a commercial product to do it. However, there [...]
It seems I have gained a reputation amongst my peers to be a diff tool hopper. That is, I am on a quest to find the perfect diff tool for my development. I think I have given just about every free tool out there a good run for it’s money and tend to move to [...]
After seeing a video on using Mecurial on Codeplex I finally took the plunge into distribute revision control. Although Mercurial seemed to have better integration with Visual Studio, which is my main IDE, I decided to use Git instead. This decision was based purely on a gut feeling about which would be the best choice [...]
There has been an interesting problem at work over the last couple of weeks. We are in the process of preparing to move service providers and at the same time upgrading all our servers to run Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008. In preparation for this move, we have been upgrading our staging and [...]
Ever since I have been living away from my home country of England, I have noticed myself picking up on what I would consider misuses of the English language. On the most part, they are Americanisms, for which I take great pleasure and amusement in refusing to understand, until the person uses the English pronunciation. [...]
The slating of Microsofts UAC has recently been reborn now that the early adopters of Windows 7 have found security flaws in the new version. It reminded me of the outrage that occurred when it was first introduced in Vista and at this late stage, prompts me to point out something that was conveniently overlooked [...]
For one of my projects, I use the Media Temple Grid Service for hosting. They offer ssh access to the hosting, which is superb and coupled with svn repositories, enables me to keep all the source there too. Using a nice, secure complex password to log on with the ssh client, my IDE and my [...]
I have spent the last few days at work doing some intense refactoring of a seemingly complex jQuery plug-in. I managed to cut it down by 140 lines and speed it up immensely. Whilst it would have saved time if I had written the plug-in myself in the first place, I cannot be expected to [...]
Slipping musically into my twitter stream earlier this morning came an excited remark by John Resig. He seemed all hyped about the new Atlas product from 280 North that they announced at Future of Web Apps, Miami. Given John’s reputation in web development, I immediately followed the link and watched the introductory video on the [...]
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