Since I started using twitter, there’s been a constant up-hill battle of how to collect the right followers, keeping all your friends as followers, work people, social networks and online communities etc… This should be easier. Given a group of people all wanting to follow each other, a si mple submission to a group should [...]
18
Dec
Macbook Air – Hash Key
Okay, this is a bit ‘niche’-ey. I have a US Macbook air with UK Keyboard layout and have spent a few months passively looking for the ‘hash’ key, whilst sort of admitting to myself that I’d probably bought a £1200 machine with no DVD drive, no changeable battery and NO HASH KEY. But.. about that [...]
14
Oct
Can a blog be a professional internal tool?
I don’t often talk about my job on here, mainly because it’s not often relevant. But recently I’ve been in a lot of meetings / discussions about creating a system to keep the executives up to date on the progress of various projects. It was an interesting meeting in which the system changed from a [...]
09
Sep
Preview Site Rendering Tool
While trying to see if a peculiarity in the rendering of this site was due to the IE6 install on a machine in my work (eurgh… companies) I stumbled accross a service that will produce a screenshot of your page rendered an any and all browsers available. And what’s best.. it’s free! Browsershots will render [...]
15
Apr
Eve Source Code Leaked Online!
It would seem that the Python Source Code to the popular game ‘Eve’ has been leaked on the internet. While apparently downloaders of the Eve Source utilizing torrent links are being banned, there is a MegaUpload link from which I’ve heard no such rumours. You can find it over at: REMOVED (hit up your favourite [...]
09
Apr
Wonderful Success Message
Error messages have gotten a lot of flack over the years for unintuitive wording or programatic creation (causing odd succesions of phrases to the effect of ‘there was an error’) to which all you can reply is ‘okay’ implying that somehow it is acceptable for the computer to erase all your data. Today, however, a [...]
25
Mar
C# DWM Glass
Okay, I’m about to go in to demo ‘Giggle’, but I just found a way of rendering readable text on glass in C#’ without adding to the onPaint() functions etc… and it’s really easy! As you can see, it’s easily adaptable in to a function for ‘universal painting of text on to Glass, although [...]
