Technology

EKM Powershop

October 25, 2009

Extremely irritated by services that insist I change my password. The latest is EKM Powershop, an online ecommerce service. Now I have yet another new password to remember. Posted via email from Kevin’s posterous Use Facebook to Comment on this Post

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Dell madness

October 25, 2009

I bought a cheapish Dell desktop (Studio 540 with Q8200 chip)  a couple of months back and have been pleased with it so far. However, I've just had occasion to go to the "Power Options" panel (not something you do often on a desktop) to find that I've been running the "Dell Recommended" plan which [...]

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PS3 frustration

October 21, 2009

Recently moved from XBox 360 to PS3 but am finding the need to update every single game before I can play it driving me NUTS. Bought “Little Big Planet” yesterday, slotted it in, spent the next hour downloading and installing 500MB of updates! Can’t they get the bloody thing right before releasing it? Why is [...]

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Best Practices for Speeding Up Your Web Site

October 20, 2009

Yahoo’s developer team has come up with 34 best practices (http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html) for speeding up your web pages. Now, some of them are marginal in effect but all the tips get you thinking about how you go about the most common activities (for example, inserting images into a web page) and how they affect the page [...]

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the genius of the BBC

October 19, 2009

The BBC’s new look website has now made it impossible to quickly see what is going on during a radio programme. I heard someone being interviewed today on Five Live and wanted to know who it was. Previously, by going to the website, I’d see the programme schedule for that day and be able to [...]

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Carbonite

October 16, 2009

Just been prompted by Carbonite to renew my subscription. That’s odd, I thought, it didn’t seem as though a year had passed. On clicking the prompt, you get sent to a screen that invites you to pay but doesn’t tell you when your current subscription expires. Curious, I logged into my account to find that [...]

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Facebook application development

October 15, 2009

I’m enjoying my first foray into Facebook app development. Unfortunately, the documentation is relatively sparse and the book I’m reading (Wrox’s “Facebook Application Development”) is not entirely helpful. Basically the process is: 1) download the PHP Client Library (http://svn.facebook.com/svnroot/platform/clients/packages/facebook-platform.tar.gz) 2) Upload it to a new folder on your server (eg “facebook”) 3) Create a blank [...]

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Loving codeigniter

September 16, 2009

I’m building a site using the CodeIgniter PHP framework and I’m absolutely LOVING the form validation function. I’ve just turned a full day’s work into (literally) 20 minutes. Posted via email from Kevin’s posterous Use Facebook to Comment on this Post

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Google Toolbar

September 14, 2009

Google Toolbar doesn’t work in Google Chrome. Go figure! Posted via email from Kevin’s posterous Use Facebook to Comment on this Post

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CSS for Form elements

September 9, 2009

Just working on a login form for a new site. Having achieved this using tables before, was delighted with the CSS-only solution offered in “The Art & Science of CSS” from Sitepoint. Posted via email from Kevin’s posterous Use Facebook to Comment on this Post

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