Archive for January, 2009

Google Chrome 2.0 Pre-Beta

There’s a new release of Google’s browser, Chrome that is doing the rounds; which has a set of new features including support for Greasemonkey (Yeay!). There’s still some way to go before it has all the features I’d need to make it my mainstream browser (I’m just too comfortable in...

Secure your ZIPs

I’ve just come across SecureZIP, a secure compression program by PKWare, the people behind PKZip. I used PKZip for a long, long time in the past, but I’ve never really used a compression program to secure my files. I had dabbled a bit with PGPDisk when I needed to encrypt...

Another HoneyPost

Regular readers will know that every now and again I dump a collection of links to things I have found interesting over the last few days. It’s called HoneyPost, nice and sweet! Here you go: 10 Killer WordPress Hacks: Some great tips here for all the WordPress gurus around A...

BenSpark’s holding a contest

Just got a Tweet from BenSpark who’re running a contest with some T-shirts to give away. I was singled out because I had commented on a previous competition of his because it was only open to people in the US. This one, however, is international, so everyone can participate. The...

Unit Testing, Test Driven Development and Behaviour Driven Development

The Isle of Man section of the BCS is holding a talk next Tuesday on Unit Testing, BDD and TDD which should be interesting for anyone involved in software design. Here’s the blurb from the BCS website: An introduction to a number of development practices, particularly discussing Unit Testing, Test...

6 Applications that made 2008 special

I wanted to list a couple of applications that made a difference for me in 2008. Some of these have changed the way I work on my computer, some of them have been instrumental to my knowledge and online experiences. I thought I’d share them here for others to learn...

The winner of the Twitter Mug is ..

Congrats to Elizabeth (@Table4Five) for coming up first in my Twitter Mug competition. The draw was very random, I dumped people’s names in bits of paper and got Arthur to pick one our of a bucket. (I really wanted a hat, but couldn’t find one, so had to make use...

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