One of my earliest posts was a jibe at the crazy notion of selling numerous different versions of Vista. It seems that the madness is set to continue with Windows 7, as Microsoft have confirmed that there will be six …
Read moreDTDs and Javascript don’t mix
Remember this diagram from a couple of posts ago: After our previous exciting instalment some of this should start to make a bit more sense. In particular, that post explains why there’s a double-ended arrow going between the ASP.Net layer …
Read moreTranslation, translation, translation
When we began work on our new XUL-based framework we decided that translations should be built in at a low level. Most obviously a translation could be used to switch our applications to run in French, Spanish or some other …
Read moreSticking it all together
As my previous post described, there are a whole load of different technologies that are jammed together to produce the applications I’m writing at the moment. In order to provide a little more insight into what’s happening – and so …
Read moreA mish-mash of technologies
I’m a software developer by trade, working on web-based applications for a small software company in the UK. Recently I’ve been working on a new development framework, plus some real-life applications, based on XUL. This restricts the applications to running …
Read moreAnd they say that Linux has driver issues?!
My work machine runs Windows XP, and on the whole it serves me well enough. Or at least it used to – until a couple of weeks ago when the network connection started playing up every day or two. The …
Read moreAsus A7V600-X (VIA VT8237) with SATA II Hard Drive
This is one of those “I spent far too long Googling and didn’t find anything useful, so I’ll post myself in the hope that it helps someone else” posts… I’ve got an Asus A7V600-X motherboard in this here machine, and …
Read moreWhat colour is your PIN?
I was getting some cash out of the hole-in-the-wall a while back and was presented with the usual warning about keeping my PIN safe by guarding it with one hand while blocking the view with my body and making aggressive …
Read moreWhy is there no AND for regular expressions?
Here’s a Javascript regular expression which will match a string which contains at least one lower case letter: /[a-z]/ And another which will match a string with at least one upper case character: /[A-Z]/ I can even stick these together …
Read morecolorToRGBA()
I’ve recently been working on a XUL application, and needed to fade gracefully from one colour to another. One of the stumbling blocks was trying to work out what my start and end colours actually are – or more to …
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