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Movember

By Jim | November 4, 2008

My old work pals are taking part in Movember which is a great campaign for increasing awareness of prostate cancer. Check out their progress and sponser them here.

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Asp echo()

By Jim | October 3, 2008

This could be seen as a slightly lazy piece of classic asp code but it works for me. Php coders should understand this one. sub echo(input) response.write(replace(input,”‘”,”"”")) end sub The single quote is now essentially being used an escape character similar to php echo which saves having to do double quotes when using response.write to output [...]

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IMO Download – Embedded player test

By Jim | September 17, 2008
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Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1

By Jim | September 10, 2008

Now, I love my iPhone and generally hate Sony Ericsson but there is somthing I find quite sexy about the new X1. Flashy websites can only go so far, I guess we will just have to wait a few days yet to find out. http://www.sonyericsson.com/x1/

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Tortoise SVN Extension for Dreamweaver

By Jim | September 9, 2008

I use this loads but can never seem to find it on the internet. It allows you to commit and update direct from the Dreamweaver context menu. The old URL it was hosted at (nearlygeek.com) is no more. You do need to have Tortoise SVN installed and it only seems to work with Windows. Enjoy [...]

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Track used in Living TV “Ibiza” viral

By Jim | September 7, 2008

I forgot all about this, but stumbled across it again yesterday. Its a trance track I made a while back with a friend Dan which got picked up and used in a Living TV (Virgin Media) video. They played with the filtering a little to much for my liking but I’m still chuffed nonetheless. The track [...]

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OSX Terminal / Command Colouring

By Jim | September 6, 2008

Essential tip for OSX users. Not just pretty on the eyes but bloody useful. Just add the following lines to ~/.bash_profile export CLICOLOR=1 export LSCOLORS=ExFxCxDxBxegedabagacad http://www.mactips.org/archives/2005/08/02/color-your-os-x-command-prompt/

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Chrome First Impressions

By Jim | September 3, 2008

A few us have been using Chrome here in the office today a and first impressions are generally good. I’m not going to run down the whole feature list, only what was obvious to me right away. Pages render at lightening speed, it feels faster than FireFox. Element inspector – a firebug style debug tool built [...]

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Google Chrome Imminent

By Jim | September 2, 2008

Following on from yesturdays web comic teaser the world is eagerly awaiting the full release of Google’s (Open Source) Chrome browser, which according to the Google Blog should be at some point today. There are already some screenshots floating around the web and I’m as interested hell to get my hands on it. From a web developers [...]

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By Jim | August 29, 2008

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