Doing a quick test of the major browsers (on OSX Snow Leopard) and of the 160 HTML5 features tested these are the scores: Chrome 5.0.342.9b 137 Safari 4.0.5 113 (this is the score I got on Chrome Windows which suggests an older version of Webkit) Opera 10.10 38 (I expected much better from Opera as [...]
Snippet sites first cropped up as a way of sharing code with others in IRC and forums where formatted code with syntax highlighting wasn’t practical. Since then they’ve grown to provide version control, sharing and other features. Here’s a quick list of the major players. Personally – I’d recommend Github. dZone Snippets Part of the [...]
Writing extensions for Chrome is so refreshingly simple it’s exciting. So as a result I produced another one and this time for a slightly more specialised use. If you’re UK-based and interested in politics then this plugin will enable you to keep tabs on your MP with their latest parliamentary updates and links to further [...]
Just released first Chrome Extension: Augment Search. Its been heavily inspired by BetterSearch which is available on Firefox. I wanted this mainly for myself nut thought it’d be worth releasing to. Will hopefully be the first of many. Get It Download from Google What It Does Adds links to other search results pages for: Google, [...]
No it didn’t. According to a quote on the Telegraph website the GMail downtime affected only a small subset of users but if you look at the comments on the story it was hitting people in Florida, France, UK and Canada. That’s quite a big, “small subset”! This is the second time this month – [...]
Just as I’m in the process of moving my sites off Slicehost onto Linode completely I spotted a tweet of someone asking about the advantages of of the big green “L” over SliceHost. Well although I did a post reviewing the top developer webhosts a while back I thought I’d jump into answering this very [...]
Can’t believe I’ve not spotted this before. Freebase is a freely editable store of structured data. If you want a table of programming languages or Greek poets then Freebase can provide. This has endless possibilities for tinkering and scripting with. If you’ve not seen before then I strongly recommend a visit.
I’ve never broached this subject with other Brits so I don’t know if its an annoyance to anyone else but I’m going to get on my soapbox. It REALLY pisses me off having to misspell COLOUR and CENTRE all the fu&^%ng time when using CSS!! I don’t want to get into the linguistic history, the [...]
I’ve been through a hell of a lot of different hosts in the past few years so I thought I’d give my take on what to go for. I will state first off that I currently use: Slicehost and Linode. Slicehost They recently announced their takeover by Rackspace and although that worries me they have [...]
CheapVPS / A2B2 / VAServe This is a UK company and I’d heard great things about their service at the WHT forums. Unfortunately it didn’t go well and I’m no longer with them. Here’s my key gripes: Poorly designed ‘out of the box’ management systems. These were just confusing. It took 15 minutes for me [...]
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