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 …
Read moreTransparently stupid
For a long time now it’s been possible to specify CSS colours as RGB triplets, using hexadecimal, decimal, or percentage notation. These all represent the colour white: #ffffff #fff rgb(255, 255, 255) rgb(100%, 100%, 100%) Lots of flexibility – perhaps …
Read moreRootless Linux on a Windows machine
Update: The Linux end of this tutorial does not work in Ubuntu 9.10, Karmic Koala. Please see this post, and this one, for more details and workarounds I have to work on a Windows machine at work every day. It’s …
Read moreRemoving bookmark favicons from your toolbar
Removing favicons from the bookmarks toolbar in Firefox
Read moreThat took longer than planned
I haven’t posted anything in this blog for a few weeks now for one reason: I decided to move the domain to a new ISP. Now you might think that this should be a simple task – taking a few …
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