fordie’s blog

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 pre pending “is twittering: ” to updates that come in from twitter.
Fortunately Dustin Brewer has come to the rescue by developing twittersync which, as the name sort of suggest syncs [...]

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 window or at the end of the content if it was over one screen high. On the original site I wasn’t able to acheive this, due to the way some [...]

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 ago I found a nice easy cure for this, so I thought I’d share it. All you need to do to stop .net adding the name attribute to the form is [...]

I think I’ve finally cracked the various PC issues I’ve been having - last night I reinstalled XP on my laptop (again). I’d done a reinstall last week, but I’d neglected to format the HDD first; the upshot of which was my hard disk was almost completely full of folders XP wouldn’t let me [...]

I was looking the stats for this site earlier and saw that someone had come here having searched for “dreamweaver 8 ftp password registry”.
I can’t be certain, but I suspect who ever it was had lost or forgotten their FTP password and was hoping to recover it from Dreamweaver. I was in the same position [...]