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2008The value of front-end web development
Front-end web development (that is the writing of HTML,CSS and JavaScript) has been the talk of the town in the blogosphere this week. People have been complaining about Internet Explorer 8’s new rendering engine switching meta tag and people have also...
Blogged by phil @ imgiseverything.co.uk
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2008January - The Scene in review
I should have learned by now: January is a rubbish month for most things. Not least because it follows a time of high spirits, but the bleakness of watching people fail their resolutions, struggle with credit card bills and deal with a slow bus...
Blogged by Paul Robinson @ blog.vagueware.com
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2008Microsoft Offers $44.6bn for Yahoo!
In just the last ten minutes, news has come out that Microsoft, in its seemingly never ending courtship of Yahoo!, has now proposed an acquisition valued at $44.6bn. This follows suggestions from analysts in the last few days that someone should buy Yahoo...
Blogged by Peter Cooper @ petercooper.co.uk
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2008Friday Fun
Back in the day when I worked with the guys at Nemark we had a spot of trouble with HR who didnt like us dissapearing for 10 mins on an afternoon when we went to the shop just to get out of the office and clear our heads, and now I no-longer work there......
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2008Goals for 2008: January Update
No point having goals if you’re not going to follow through on them. So here is my January score-card: Revenue. No 10% gain, in fact, it’s down on December. FAIL Hours: Averaging about 50 hours a week. FAIL Marketing: Outside help contacted, begin...
Blogged by Rahoul Baruah @ 3hv.co.uk
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2008Firefox 3 Beta 2
As the BWII (Browser War 2) heats up with the controversy over IE8, Firefox solidify their war efforts with the latest Beta of Firefox 3....
Blogged by Paul Stanton @ havocstudios.co.uk
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2008Sneak preview
Hi All, Last week I gave you an update on the functionality that we have been developing. While the development has now finished, we are adding the final touches to the usability and I just wanted to show you the screenshots for the important information...
Blogged by slaycock @ btbizbox.com
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2008TDD and random numbers in ruby
I’m about to TDD a Ruby class whose behaviour will involve the use of random numbers. I expect the algorithms within the class to evolve as I implement new stories, so I don’t want to design and build a testing mechanism that will be brittle when tho...
Blogged by Kevin Rutherford @ silkandspinach.net
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2008My Mac has died!
I am actually quite upset. It just stays on this screen. I have had a little cry already. ...
Blogged by Plip @ weblogs.asp.net
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2008GTDInbox 1.981 (2.0 RC6) Released
You’ll notice I craftily avoided the incremental numbers problem there That doesn’t mean 18 more releases before 2.0 (I hope!); but it does take some pressure off. Ok, this is the release 1.98 shoudl have been - i.e. much tidied up. Please let me kno...
Blogged by Andy @ blog.productivefirefox.com
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2008Drupal 6 RC3 Released
There's a shiny new release of Drupal 6 just around the corner (RC3, the final release candidate came out earlier this week), complete with a new installer making what was simple process in 5, an even simpler process in 6. Other new key features includ...
Blogged by matason @ samatason.co.uk
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2008A nice alternitave to Print Screen
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Blogged by Ross Dargan @ blog.the-dargans.co.uk
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2008Windows Vista and UAC
I wanted a way to automatically start Fonebook with windows but I wanted to be able to change if it started automatically from within the application. The easiest way to do this was through the registry but not all users will have permission to edit the r...
Blogged by Ross Dargan @ blog.the-dargans.co.uk
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2008What could Microsoft's and Yahoo's marriage mean for developers?
For many the marriage of this rather unlikely coupling is both disturbing and terrifying, but I actually think it will be great for both Microsoft and Yahoo should it go ahead. In this post I'll try and explore why I think that. Something Yahoo...
Blogged by Plip @ weblogs.asp.net
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2008OpenId in ASP.NET
Just wanted to commit this to my memory and share it with others! Mads Kristensen recently blogged about his ASP.NET Implementation of OpenId. It seems to be by far the simplest solution I've seen thus far. ...
Blogged by Plip @ weblogs.asp.net
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2008Windows Vista UAC and programs starting automatically
A little side note to yesterdays post. For some reason vista will promote a program to full admin rights if it starts automatically without requiring UAC authentication.An example of this is Fonebook. When you start it manually and change the st...
Blogged by Ross Dargan @ blog.the-dargans.co.uk
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2008Rendering IE8 As IE7 Doesn't Have To Be A Bad Thing
There's been much discussion over the A List Apart articles regarding the IE8 plans the implement version targeting and especially its suggested default behaviour of rendering as IE7 if the meta tag is omitted. I wanted to share my thoughts....
Blogged by Ryan Taylor @ havocstudios.co.uk
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2008Microhoo!
I stopped reading FSJ a while back but he certainly has the best analysis of the proposed Microhoo! deal I've seen so far. It's also worth noting that nothing has...
Blogged by Baz @ made-of-stone.blogspot.com
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2008Leeds Ruby Thing, Victoria Hotel 7th Feb 2008.
Some of the people of the North West Ruby User Group (who usually meet in Manchester) have organised the first little Leeds get together. No real name yet, so it’s the Leeds Ruby Thing for now. No clear plan yet either, but expect unstructured discu...
Blogged by john @ johnleach.co.uk
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2008Google’s Take on the Microsoft/Yahoo! Deal
David Drummond a Google SVP has written a blog post suggesting that the deal could have serious implications for open Internet standards. Image credit: swamp_of_dumb over at fark.com I’d indeed be worried about services such as flickr and the YUI Ajax t...
Blogged by James Holden @ jamesholden.net
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2008DataPortability
There's a new kid on the block, another potential standard that's trying to unify the web ... the problem is clear: - "As users, our identity, photos, videos and other forms of personal data should be discoverable by, and share...
Blogged by Plip @ weblogs.asp.net
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04
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2008Leeds Ruby Thing
If you’re in or around Leeds this Thursday, pop over to the Victoria Hotel pub at 7pm for the inaugural Leeds Ruby Thing (for want of a better title!). No clear plan yet, but expect unstructured discussion of Ruby and Ruby on Rails at least. Plus nice p...
Blogged by Jeremy Jarvis @ brightbox.co.uk
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2008Leeds Ruby Thing
If you’re in or around Leeds this Thursday, pop over to the Victoria Hotel pub at 7pm for the inaugural Leeds Ruby Thing (for want of a better title!). No clear plan yet, but expect unstructured discussion of Ruby and Ruby on Rails at least. Plus nice p...
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2008The Social Graph API
In "Thoughts on the Social Graph", Brad Fitzpatrick wrote: There are an increasing number of new "social applications" as well as traditional applications which require the "social graph". What I mean by "social graph" is the global mapping of everybody a...
Blogged by James @ jimmahdigital.com
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2008Y: The Last Man
Like many late 80s geek teenagers I was consumed by adult comics and graphic novels such as The Dark Knight Returns, V for Vendetta and Watchmen; many of which have been recently re-released as gorgeous hardcover 'Absolute' editions by DC's......
Blogged by Imran... @ imran.ali.name
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2008The Leeds Ruby Thing
Expertly named by £2000/hour marketing consultants, the Leeds Ruby Thing is taking place at the Victoria Hotel at 7pm on Thursday the 7th February. I probably can't get there till 9ish though. ...
Blogged by Baz @ made-of-stone.blogspot.com
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2008no more iterations
This week Wayne Allen is starting an experiment: one of his teams is going to drop the “traditional” agile approach of iterations and velocity, in favour of a kanban-style pull system with capped work in progress. The team will do no estimation, and...
Blogged by Kevin Rutherford @ silkandspinach.net
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2008Windows Server 2008 has RTM'd!!
Great news and well done to all the teams involved with Windows Server 2008 - Earlier today it was announced that Windows Server 2008 has RTM'd - ...
Blogged by Andrew Westgarth @ andrewwestgarth.co.uk
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2008Windows Server 2008 has RTM'd!!
Great news and well done to all the teams involved with Windows Server 2008 - Earlier today it was announced that Windows Server 2008 has RTM'd - ...
Blogged by Andrew Westgarth @ andrewwestgarth.co.uk
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2008An Update to the YMP Web Control
Tonight I was going over my YMP Web Control that I released in December. However I noticed that I could end up having multiple controls render onto a page. This could happ...
Blogged by Michael James @ blog.mjjames.co.uk
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2008More Web Controls - jQuery
Ok so I have an obsession with web controls and since my last one, Yahoo! Media Player, I have been toying with the idea of doing one for John Resig...
Blogged by Michael James @ blog.mjjames.co.uk
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2008SVN Commit/Update - Developer Best Practice
Today I have been asked to write a brief process document for a new group of developers working on a website which had only newly been integrated into Subversion. Here are a few of suggestions I will be making. The command line syntax is very easy, this w...
Blogged by mark @ svn-checkout.co.uk
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2008Leeds City Centre Vision Conference 2008
Last Thursday I braved the howling winds and driving rain to attend the 2008 edition of the Leeds City Centre Vision Conference, at the invitation of the city's Chief Economic Services Officer, Paul Stephens. Upon entering the main hall, I......
Blogged by Imran... @ imran.ali.name
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2008PyRoom
A while back I was discussing FOSS alternatives for cutting out distractions, and one of the pieces of software that I couldn’t find a decent alternative for was Writeroom which is commercial software for the Mac. Now Bruno Bord (who’s basically Fren...
Blogged by schwuk @ schwuk.com
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2008Unboxing an Original 1988 Apple IIc
This lucky chap scored an unopened Apple IIc from eBay and, rather than sitting on it to accrue more collector value, decided to “unbox” it, 20 years after it left the factory. I find it fascinating how there has been so little change to their approa...
Blogged by James Holden @ jamesholden.net
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2008Lent & How it Helped Me Learn Code
There is a very high percentage of the development community that is atheist. Percentage wise, we give the general population a run for their money - it is made of perhaps the most pro-secular and anti-theist people out there in one industry w...
Blogged by Paul Robinson @ blog.vagueware.com
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2008The World’s First SMS Enabled Toilet?
Working in the messaging industry, I’ve seen my fair share of oddball applications for SMS, but this one’s taking the, erm…. whatever. In an effort to curb vandalism, some public toilets in Finland are now kept locked until you text the Finnish wor...
Blogged by James Holden @ jamesholden.net
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2008The search for Japanese balloonist Michio Kanda
Michio Kanda is a Japanese town office employee and world-record-holding balloonist who has gone missing over the North Pacific while attempting to fly from Japan to North America. My brother and sister-in-law are part of his support team. They’ve set u...
Blogged by mattedgar @ matt.me63.com
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2008ASCII changes cause strange artifacts
Why does Squeak use the underscore _ as an assignment character[1]? Because in 1963 the ASCII code for _ ...
Blogged by Baz @ made-of-stone.blogspot.com
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2008Jumping the Shark
One of the advantages of being almost 30 is that people less than a decade younger than you tend to think of you as being “wise�. Some of the staff in my local bar will ask me about everything from US politics, the Renaissance, Alan Turing...
Blogged by Paul Robinson @ blog.vagueware.com
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2008I’M ON THE TRAIN!
After months of never quite making it, I managed to get myself over to Leeds and to OpenCoffee. It’s a beautiful space and an interesting mix of people, self-consciously slightly less geeky than GeekUp, although there were a few familiar and cheeky...
Blogged by tom @ theotherblog.com
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2008I need one of these
Every ASP.NET developer should get one from Microsoft! ...
Blogged by Plip @ weblogs.asp.net
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2008The Grid and how to Plug in, Tune out, Drop off
A totally useless guide of how to reclaim a bit of privacy Seven ways to drop off the grid, totally lacking in any practical advice whatsoever. It says… There is sophisticated software that deletes all traces of your activities from your computer &...
Blogged by tom @ theotherblog.com
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2008mapserver syntax file for gedit
Gedit is my editor of choice at the moment, but, with all it’s great plugins, it was kinda lacking when working with Mapserver map files. So far vim, textpad and notepad++ have syntax support for map files, and now I’m happy to announce, Gedit does! ...
Blogged by tim @ thinkwhere.wordpress.com
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2008The wheels on the bus (can't) go round and round
The mechanical impossibility of this Metroshuttle illustration of three cogs has been amusing plenty of the city's commuters....
Blogged by Sarah Hartley @ blogs.manchestereveningnews.co.uk
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2008next NakedAgilists: April 26th
The date of the next NakedAgilists virtual conference has been set for Saturday April 26th 2008, at 8pm GMT. Previous events have been packed with great sessions and debate, so add this event to your calendar now to avoid disappointment! As always, the c...
Blogged by Kevin Rutherford @ silkandspinach.net
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20086 Rules for Effective Conference Calls
In this day and age the conference call is a fact of life. It may no longer be on the telephone - Skype, VOIP and iChat have seen to that - but a group of geographically disparate people trying to speak without any visual contact is an increasingly commo...
Blogged by Rahoul Baruah @ 3hv.co.uk
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2008What's wrong with RSpec?
I don't know. I've tried, really tried to like it. And I don't know why I don't. Something just doesn't feel right.It's testing. It's test-first. ...
Blogged by Baz @ made-of-stone.blogspot.com
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2008Going Solo
Stephanie Booth was the first person I met exclusively through Twitter. Steph met my friend Ian at a conference last year, she mentioned her grandmother was from Leeds and Ian suggested we meet next time she came to visit her......
Blogged by Imran... @ imran.ali.name
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2008You Go Girl!
Maz, Linda and I started talking about a Leeds chapter of Sara Sarah Blow's Girl Geek Dinner a few months ago as a response to the modest turnout of women at tech/geek meetups in Yorkshire. We'd planned to shoot for......
Blogged by Imran... @ imran.ali.name
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2008OpenSocial 0.7 Released
The latest version of the OpenSocial spec has been released, 0.7: The best news is that, based on numerous discussions with both app developers as well as container sites, we believe OpenSocial 0.7 has all the necessary pieces to launch OpenSocial apps to...
Blogged by James @ jimmahdigital.com
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2008Interesting off road mod
You know when people think... "I'll modify this car so it can go off-road better" ? ...
Blogged by nige @ nigel.spowage.info
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07
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2008I knew it!
There are Geek Girls out there, at least more than the 2-3 I already know!http://www.manchestergirlgeekdinners.co.uk/...
Blogged by nige @ nigel.spowage.info
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2008OpenCoffee Leeds {February}
I don't get it. When I promote OpenCoffee we get a smaller turnout than when I don't...fortunately, I didn't this month and we had a buzzing and vibrant mood with over thirty people dropping in thoughout the course of the......
Blogged by Imran... @ imran.ali.name
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2008Geek Girl Dinners - Great Idea, However..
Well this post could go wrong, very wrong, the latest in the Geek Girl dinners has just been announced and this time it’s in the North, Manchester to be exact, and I think that’s fantastic, I’m in support of anything that helps women...
Blogged by Dominic Hodgson @ thehodge.co.uk
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2008Shiny New Website!
If you’re reading this on the website, you can’t help but of noticed that http://productivefirefox.com has been visually updated. The old site, while pretty handsome, felt a little home-brewed. All the text on this site has also been revised. Producti...
Blogged by Andy @ blog.productivefirefox.com
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2008ANNOUNCE: Blogs n Wikis again
Blogs amplify individual voices. Unlike mailing lists, they don’t get lost in the hubbub. Wikis are different - they blur authorship, and drive towards a consensual style. Blogs’ temporal flow creates an affordance for conversation that is dil...
Blogged by tom @ theotherblog.com
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2008OB10 - Get ready for some real global competition
Up to now, the e-invoicing market has been dominated by OB10 due to their global expansion strategy, but this is soon to be threatened by a new M&A deal between two players I have come to respect. I cannot go into detail at present without breaching c...
Blogged by Manoj Ranaweera @ manojranaweera.com
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2008Breaking News: FundTech Acquires Accountis
Acquisition further expands Fundtech’s product suite in the corporate banking financial supply chain JERSEY CITY, N.J., Feb 07, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Fundtech Ltd. (NASDAQ: FNDT), a market leader in global corporate banking solutions, today announce...
Blogged by Manoj Ranaweera @ manojranaweera.com
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2008The role played by this blog in FundTech’s acquisition of Accountis
Whilst I cannot take any credit for the deal between FundTech and Accountis, I feel exhilarated at the service this blog provided in above acquisition. Here are some clues: OB10 #8 - Ready to be acquired! James Governor # 1 - Learning from a Pro I actua...
Blogged by Manoj Ranaweera @ manojranaweera.com
