I /was/ hoping that I could write a nice piece about how Tesco pretty much gave me a free tablet, and how pleasant a thing it is.
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Mam Tor
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Vim-Csharp Updated
I’ve updated Vim-CSharp with a few new features. The original aim of this project was to eventually provide autocomplete support for .NET projects. Omnisharp does this so well, there’s no point in duplicating effort. Vim-Csharp is now focussed on increasing developer productivity through better syntax highlighting, snippet completion, and any...
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Lenovo X1 Carbon and Ubuntu 13.04
I’ve had the Lenovo X1 Carbon for a few months, and in all honesty, it’s the best laptop I’ve ever owned (including Macbooks). Under Windows, everything works flawlessly, and I’ve had no problems. In Ubuntu, almost everything works out of the box with 13.04, but there are a couple of...
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Sql Server 2008 R2 Reporting Services – 503 Error
I was up til 2am on this one.
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Ruby Game of Life
I am learning Ruby and Vim. I’m also attending the Preston Codejo hosted by Magma Digital, where were using Ruby as the driver.
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It’s All Aquarion’s Fault
It’s all Aquarion’s fault</a>.
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SF Gateway Christmas/New Year Offer
</a> SF Gateway (publishers of classic Sci-Fi), are holding a sale between Christmas and New Year, where all of their e-books are going for £2.99.
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Conway’s Game of Life
This weekend saw the global Coderetreat happen, where developers all around the world worked in regional groups to improve their coding techniques, and to try out new ideas/languages.
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Gadaffi Dead – BBC and NU.nl go for Gorefest
So, Gadaffi appears to have been finally hunted down and killed. We know this because it’s all the news channels are showing, and it’s all the news website can show.
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Drag And Drop Problem With A Screen Extender (Airdisplay,DisplayLink, ScreenRecycler) On Lion
Using OS X Lion on an older Macbook (in my case late 2008), if you attempt to use a third party graphics driver, for example as a screen extender, you may experience a problem with dragging and dropping and other graphics related problems (VMWare not releasing your mouse).
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Barcamp Blackpool 3
Love Our Sponsors – From catashton.co.uk
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Leeds Hack 2011, Or That Was The Hack That Was
LeedsHack 2011 has been and gone, and again was the flurry of excitement and frustration we’ve come to expect from the event. @the_hodge, @heathervamp and the rest of the team managed to organise an excellent venue, a world class pic ‘n’ mix and the world’s largest simultaneous takeaway order –...
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Nottingham Barcamp 2011
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Do More With Less (or How I Learned to Stop Worrying And Love the Code)
Slides from my talk on anti-pattern productivity (applying levels of common sense to getting stuff done vs formal productivity systems).
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JsonRequestBehaviour.AllowGet & Visual Studio Regex
Nice quick win – currently upgrading a client Intranet project from ASP.NET MVC1 to MVC2. Microsoft changed how get requests are handled in this release and disallowed GET JSON requests by default. Before going any further, note that there are security implications in allowing JSON get requests.
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Tips for Contractor CVs
I spend quite a bit of time recruiting for clients, helping place contractors and full time placements for them. As such, I sift through rather a lot of CVs. CVs are notoriously hard to get right, you’ve got to get a potentially complex personality and skill set across in a...
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National Rail – Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Cow
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Does Anyone Else See Smiley Faces?
From the Visual Studio Regular Expressions documentation…
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Application, Service and AIDL
Our demonstration Android application for Leedshack came in two parts – a user-facing application which the user could use to drop “markers” (points used to attach triggers to) and a background process which checked a remote web service to look for any triggers to fire.
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Barcamp Manchester 4 – 04/12/2010
Hey folks,
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Gorillas BETA
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Because Good (Free) Fonts Are So Hard To Find
Those who have to dip their toes into the life of a designer once every so often understand the importance of typography. One of the hard parts of typography is finding the right typeface that isn’t going to break your piggy bank (or your client’s piggy bank).
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Bob In Sheffield
At BarCamp Sheffield we were asked to create a tag cloud to represent our interests. Rather than quickly doodle one out at the venue, I took a blank back with me on the Friday evening to my hotel and drew one in Bob instead. A few people have asked me...
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Beefing up Mail.app
Mac OS X’s default mail browser, Mail.app, is a pretty straightforward e-mail client with a few bells and whistles. But for those coming across from e-mail clients such as Thunderbird or Outlook, especially from daily workflows that revolve around e-mail, they may find the out-the-box functionality a little lacking. Cleverly...
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