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Archive for 2009
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Regular Expressions
Posted on December 18, 2009 | No CommentsI'm not a big fan of regular expressions. They can be powerful, but for anything remotely complicated they can be a nightmare to maintain and re-read. I had an idea... -
Boring Conference Sessions
Posted on November 10, 2009 | No CommentsWhat do you do when you are at a conference and bored? Do you start using the backchannel to start sniping at the presenters taste in clothing, presentation background, or... -
Introducing Scale Camp
Posted on November 4, 2009 | No CommentsI've been to a fair few conferences recently, and something that has struck me is the large number of people who are dealing with similar issues. How to deal with... -
Javascript libraries and offline support
Posted on October 26, 2009 | No CommentsA quick one here. I develop most of the functionality to this website when I am offline on the train. I wanted to use the jQuery library on my website,... -
Christian Voice, Stephen Gately and missing the point
Posted on October 21, 2009 | No CommentsI am a christian and I am proud of the fact. My faith makes it clear that I should be willing to share my faith whenever and wherever I can,... -
Facebook Connect and Identity
Posted on October 19, 2009 | No CommentsThe more I think about Facebook Connect and identity the more worried I get. Lets start with my basic premise, your online identity is much too valuable to be controlled... -
Some new features
Posted on October 10, 2009 | No CommentsSo I've finally added a couple of new features, so thought I'd pop up a quick explanation of what I did and why. Firstly, you should hopefully have noticed that... -
Building a personal website
Posted on October 9, 2009 | No CommentsOne of the requested articles on this site was a comprehensive diary of what went into building this website, and why I did so. Since for shits and giggles wasn't... -
Future of Web Apps – day two
Posted on October 6, 2009 | No CommentsSo what was the highlight of the second day of FOWA for me? Believe it or not the marketing stuff. We were exhorted, repeatedly, that listening to your customers is... -
Future of Web Apps – day one
Posted on October 1, 2009 | No CommentsSo today I've been down to London to attend the Future of Web Apps conference, and it has been a fascinating day for me. Firstly, the talks were a suprising...