The exciting Raspberry Pi project is nearing fruition but it seems their attempts to boost the UK economy by getting the boards made over here has been thwarted by lead times and an insane tax law.
It seems UK manufacturers end up paying tax on components, but if they get the [...]
Some of my colleagues have been applying the Pomodoro technique to their pair programming of late, so I thought I’d give it a try. I’m trialling a combination of tools which now integrates my Pomodoros more with my daily working life and I’ll set them out in this post.
The Git integration in XCode 4 is very welcome however it seems to be a bit flaky when it comes to dealing with remote repositories. In this post, I list the 12 steps I’ve attempted to work with GitHub with new XCode projects.
With an increasing amount of technology to help you communicate, the job of keeping your multiple contact lists up-to-date across these devices and services has mainly fallen to you.
Contact information lurks in many places and is often locked to serve one purpose. Whether it’s contact details in your mobile phone; on the [...]
In the process of moving a .co.uk domain over to 1&1 for someone this week, I encountered the undocumented status code of ‘Domain Update Done’.
The domain had previously shown as ‘Ready’ in the control panel and I was able to set the server and mailserver for them using 1&1′s nameserver.
The gotcha is that [...]
I’ve been chasing problems with MSDTC today. We were trying to get one machines on a different domain to use MSDTC through COM+ to talk to a remote SQL Server on a different domain.
Select / Read operations seemed to work fine but when it attempted to use an UPDATE method in a transaction, it [...]
Google have changed their terms of service on their Contacts API in a seemingly simple way, but with hopefully bigger consequences. It might force Facebook to open the doors on external access to the data we choose to store there.
Gibraltar Software provides a richer feedback experience if you’re used to using log4net; just remember to tidy up after yourself.
How to solve a BadImageFormatException when your Visual Studio 2010 solution has a console application and class libraries and you’re running on a 64-bit machine.
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Getting Windows Git Bash to Hitch
Hitch is a great little Ruby program that manipulates the Git author settings to properly attribute pair programming work