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Technology

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

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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

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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

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Secure Cookies

August 24, 2009

Excellent article on creating more secure cookies at Carsonified: http://bit.ly/ZbBH5 Posted via email from Kevin’s posterous

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The Power of democracy

August 21, 2009

I used 99designs.com to have a logo devised for a new site I’m creating. To some web designers this would be seen as a sin and a betrayal of the design community but I think 99designs is the ideal place to get a logo created. I wouldn’t want my website itself to be designed that [...]

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Changes in Flex 4 to Flash Builder 4

July 2, 2009

Flex has become Flash Builder Beta and, in the process, a number of changes have been made to the earlier version of the Text Layout Framework. The TLF is a revolutionary set of classes that enables you to include very rich text, even editable, into your Flash applications via Flash Builder (or the next version [...]

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Flash Builder

June 22, 2009

I’ve been using the Flex SDK 4.0 in beta form for a couple of months now and I absolutely love the extra functionality the Text Framework gives. It’s finally become possible to incorporate live, editable text in just about any form you like thus opening the door to all sorts of new applications.

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Flex becomes Flash

June 22, 2009

Oh for heaven’s sake. I LIKE the name “Flex” but Adobe have decided, for marketing reasons no doubt, that “Flex Builder” must become “Flash Builder” when version 4 is released later this year.

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