So I’ve been working a fair bit with C# and Excel automation, and I’ve picked up a few things from the whole experience so far – namely that the thing is really poorly put together and requires a whole lot of work to make things work nicely.
The emphasis there is on nicely. You can hack [...]
It’s time for one of my favourite angry posts on the Social Utility That Could.
Facebook recently announced a new developer policy for applications publishing content to the Mini-Feed (which filter up to the global News Feed depending on quality.) The News Feed is the default page upon login, while the Mini-Feed is the area on [...]
Just checked out the Eclipse SVN site and apparently the issue with dashes in new PHP filenames has been resolved. I upgraded my work copy to the latest nightly build and things seem to be going well. (The October 1st integration build might be better stability-wise, but I’ve had good luck with the nightly builds.)
For [...]
I’ve made a few changes to the site, specifically applying the latest upgrade to WordPress 2.3 and a few new plugins. Here’s what’s behind the engine now:
The All-In-One SEO Pack: Modifies titles and meta tags for better search engine optimization. The site was doing fairly well before, but it’d be nice to make sure all [...]
It must be a banner day for Eclipse projects, since the primary IDE I use for both work and personal projects has been released as a 1.0 version at eclipse.org.
The primary download mirror from eclipse.org is fairly slow (I’m pulling about 50-60K/s from my work connection from it, when normally I get much speedier [...]
Let’s say you have a shared web hosting account on a random cheap provider, and the only way to access the MySQL server is to either connect from an SSH command line or use phpMyAdmin. While both of these options are okay, in some circumstances it’s not exactly wise to have a phpMyAdmin installation publically [...]
Also tagged howto, mysql, network, putty, sqlyog, utilitiesOne thing I recently found out from looking through some example CSS: when doing web development or design, you may want to apply certain attributes to one type of input field but not another. For example,
is coded:
<input type=”button” value=”A Button” />
The problem therein is that you may want different borders, backgrounds or sizing attributes for [...]
Also tagged button, css, element, html, styling, web development, xhtmlOver the past few days I’ve seen a plethora of really inane applications on my Facebook news feed. At this point, I primarily use the site for stalking other people, since I get any relevant status updates and private messages sent over to my cell phone.
Seriously, though, “Glitter Text”? “X Me”? These sorts of items [...]
There’s been a lot of whinging and amateur-lawyering over the past few days (including a massive dupe on Slashdot), about a controversy surrounding an app called TestDriven.NET. As far as I understand the situation, the primary developer is currently in a whine-fest with some people from Microsoft about licensing for a Visual Studio 2005 Express [...]
Also tagged eclipse, ibm, microsoft, php, rimQuick editor I whipped up for a friend using C#. It edits your Windows hosts file. If you’re running on Vista it’ll probably require administrative mode.
Hosts Editor (0.0.3)
Source code to be available soon once I’ve cleaned things up a bit. This post was more for my own personal use.