What could be better on a Friday afternoon that an dose of regular expressions. Anything I hear you cry. Well of course you’re right, but once you’ve mastered them, regular expressions can save you a lot of time and add power functionality to your applications.
Learn Regular Expressions By Experimenting
RegExr is an excellent tool not only [...]
Apple have released an update to Safari 3.1 which patches a security hole.
If you’re using Safari on Windows you can get the latest update by going to Start > All Programs > Apple Software Update.
You’ll be required to reboot your machine.
Today’s Adobe AIR application is Doomi. I chose this example as it shows you what can be done with a custom chrome settings in AIR. In fact Doomi uses no chrome at all. Ordinarily, the complete absence of chrome can make an application very annoying to use and most developers opt for a custom chrome [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )The second AIR application we’ll be looking at this week is Snippley created by .
I’ve chosen this as it’s aimed at developers in two senses. First of all, Snippley is used for storing and organising code snippets and secondly the source code is available which makes it an excellent candidate for deconstructing and learning more [...]
Some of you may be experience some problems with not seeing your tasks pane in Thunderbird now that the new version of Lightning has been release.
The key things to know about tasks are:
Tasks must be stored in a local calendar. They cannot be synced to Google Calendar.
If tasks have no date information, they will not [...]
Google have just further opened up their resources to developers with the introduction of Google Application Engine. Essentially it’s a web application hosting environment built upon Google’s network so it’s robust, distributed and scalable. If you’re familiar with Amazon’s S3, EC2 and SimpleDB, this is Google’s offering.
However, Google have gone further than Amazon and other [...]
I’ve been out of the office all day at the Adobe AIR On Tour Event in Brussels, but given the way the stats have rocketed for Lightning related articles on this blog it looks like Mozilla have finally released v0.8 of Lightning for Thunderbird and there might be the odd problem with tasks
I’ve been using [...]
Shifd.com (pronounced Shift) is a very simple, very useful web application that arose out of a 24 hour coding competition and which is going to be very successful.
It’s a web application, it’s a browser toolbar plugin, it’s a mobile application and, via AIR, it’s a desktop app as well. Originally it was hooked up to [...]
I’m going to be running another Adobe AIR week on the the blog this week.
Since AIR came out of Beta, some really great apps have emerged and some of the early applications have matured. The Alpha version for Linux is out offering true cross platform applications and version 1.1 is in the pipeline.
Each day I’ll [...]
If you find writing a chore, if you prefer to work from home on days when you have to write up big reports, you’ll love Q10.
Distraction Free Writing
Q10 is a writing tool with very few features and that is what makes it so attractive. It’s a great way to start writing a piece as you [...]
Meet my new laptop. It’s just over 5 centimetres long, it’s lighter than a Macbook Air and you too can have one for only €5.98
During a tidy up of the office the other day I decided to copy all of the files I had sitting on one of my USB keys back to my PC [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )This weeks (yes, I know it’s been a few weeks) free software is an online survey tool that enables you to collect opinions on what people think about your web site.
It’s very easy to implement, it’s very easy for the visitor to use, it’s free and it’ll provide you with invaluable feedback that can make [...]
Amazon S3 is an online storage service which is blisteringly fast and ridiculously low cost. You can store and transfer Gigabytes of data using their service and you’ll end up with monthly bill in single dollar figures.
It sound greats, and it is, but it is just a service and a bare bones service at that. [...]
Safari 3 has recently become a first class citizen in the world of WYSIWYG Rich Text Editors. Until recently, the majority of Rich Text Editors didn’t support Safari so if you were using a content management system or blogging software to edit your content online then Safari would usually default to a plain old text [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )I’ve written a few posts about various problems with the Windows version of Safari 3. As a result, a surprisingly large number of the search engine generated visits to this site come from people using terms like “text seems bold in safari” or “safari text problem“.
All Browsers Are Not Created Equally
There seems to be some [...]
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