Meebo, the web-based IM service, have proposed a new standard called XAuth. Using a new feature of HTML5, similar to cookies, an authentication token is stored in ‘LocalStorage’ within the browser. Therefore this will only work with modern browsers (IE8+, Safari4+, Chrome3+, FF3+).
You can see a demo of Meebo’s proposal at [...]
As Twitter grows, so the number of potential spammers to my daily tweet stream increases. Twitter’s user model is the saving factor in all of this ‘noise’. It prevents me from being overwhelmed and could have important advantages over existing legacy internet services like email. In this blog post I’ll look at whether other internet [...]
I’ve been learning a whole raft of new things lately as I get back into developing for the iPhone in earnest. There is a series of blog posts I’ve been planning on setting up Continuous Integration and Test Driven Development for iPhone applications. However, this post is more of a “where I’ve got to so [...]
Not too long ago, companies chased the illusive ‘Web 2.0′ buzz-phrase which seemed to only consist of glossy icons and sticking ‘BETA’ somewhere on your new site design. These days it’s ‘social networks’ that is the ‘must-have’ feature for the success of any new online service.
Social networks have their uses in finding out what your [...]
In case, like me, you’re having trouble enabling the newly supported ‘Greylisting’ feature after upgrading Plesk to 9.2.1, I managed to find the solution.
Every time I tried to enable Greylisting I got
Failed to exec glmng cli. file does not exist or is not executable: / usr / local / psa / [...]
I’ve been working with our Esendex Email MMS service which forwards any inbound MMS picture messages to an email address. As the picture is MIME encoded I needed a quick way to check the image included.
Thanks to a post by Zmeeagain I found the very handy trick [...]
For those of you who are monitoring or stripping keywords from referrer strings from Google you may be seeking out the query string parameter ‘q=’.
Beware that a simple string match on ‘q=’ could lead you to match on the additional Firefox parameter ‘aq=’. This appears in a Google referrer string if the search [...]
Today was the first fully packed schedule. Lots of notes still to write up but here’s a quick overview of what happened.
First off I went into the Building Rich Web Applications using Silverlight 2 session. Kathy introduced a 200 level session on what kinds of things Silverlight 2 can do over Silverlight. The answer [...]
As we were ushered in to an imposing auditorium It seemed the three DJs and VJ were entertaining a lonely, featured HP server rack on stage.
Having a tiny special ‘Early Bird’ section down the front did seem a little pointless when I’d hazard a guess that well over 70% of delegates would’ve been signing up for [...]
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- @nealharper Not least because it mentions WordPerfect in the first page!
- @darrenliddell impressive! i think the earliest i have is MSDOS 6.1
- If anyone from 1989 calls and needs a database reference manual get them in touch with me! #dataease #mandrawer http://t.co/CbnFBuUq
- @KnackeredCoder oh I agree. It all helps. 2nd in the table is a great start. I'd just like wins to be try based,penalty light tussles
- @KnackeredCoder not exactly singing. As they said it was Scotland that lost not England that won.
How to be one step ahead of UK Roadworks
Elgin is a UK government website that lists any roadworks currently underway or planned for the near-future. It’s custom-search option allows you to hand-draw an area and create an email or RSS notification; allowing you to be one step ahead on your commute!