Fordie
Hype 2.0
There is a huge buzz in the web community at the moment about “web 2.0″. Web 2.0 is the term applied by some people to products of the recent trend for developing web applications using technologies like XML & AJAX, providing “social networks” – where people are able to interact with each other and manipulate… Read note →
This blogging lark is hard work
I started my blog just over a month ago now. Ever since then I have been working on an article about using lists for form layout, and it’s still not quite ready; most of the content is there, but it lacks a certain finesse. It is extremely frustrating that describing the system I’ve devised should… Read note →
moblogging…
It would be dead handy if I could post to my blog from a mobile. I rarely find time to right entries for my blog at the moment, being able to post quickly from the phone would be realy nice. I’ve been playing about over the last day or so with lifeblog from nokia. It’s… Read note →
New online back up tool
Last night I downloaded a new tool called “Carbonite” at home. It backs up your files from your PC to their servers over your broadband connection. There’s a 15 day free trial, after that it’s $5 a month, as far as I can tell there’s no limit to the amount of data you can back… Read note →
Sometimes the little thing you forget causes you the most pain
I spend a lot of time wrestling with CSS working round IE’s broken box model. A lot of this pain could have been avoided, if only I’d remembered about the “doctype switch”. If you don’t know what a box model is, or why IE’s is broken, have a look at this. There are lot’s of… Read note →
Get your free copy of “Computer Weekley”
Those lovely people at Reed business are offering you chance to get your hands on a free Computer Weekly subscription. Get yourself signed up. Read note →
Get ready for IE7 – now
The IE team have Today announced on their blog that IE7 (Seven) will be pushed out to Windows XP users using MS automatic update (contrary to what Chris Wilson told Vitamin). This will happen some time in the fourth quater of this year. I believe this has huge implecations for anyone that develops commercial sites,… Read note →
my first wordpress “hack”
xhtml compliant flickr widget I’ve made some changes to the flickr sidebar widget. When I installed it I didn’t realise that it used tables for layout, then I validated my page and found there where a number of issues in the widget; so I took it upon myself to sort out the xhtml. I have:… Read note →
Baby scans
They’ve been a long time coming, but here are the ultrasound scans of baby Ford #2 (due November 2006): 20 week scan 12 week scan 9 week scan Read note →
Hello!
I’ve been looking for a decent blogging tool for some time. What I really wanted was an ASP or ASP.net based tool, however after a great deal of searching I was unable to find anything written in ASP or .net that met my main requirement of being xhtml compliant and using CSS for layout. I… Read note →