From the BBC news website – Living without money and swapping skills
So if someone told you there was a way to claw back some of those treats that eat into your disposable income, you would probably jump at the chance. Well, actually there is a way, and it is older than money itself.
It used to be [...]
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Its that time again – upgrading OS. This time to Windows 7.
I figure its been long enough now for the serious kinks to be worked out and I’ve been putting it off long enough. Its not the installation itself that is hard – mostly its a simple as bunging in a DVD, selecting a few [...]
Microsoft have possibly the most comprehensive and generous partner program of any technology company. Unfortunately, just like Microsoft its self and any large organisation the program has become so big and so complex that its overwhelming.
Empower or Bizspark? Action Pack or Certified? Which specialisation – ISV,Small Buisness, Custom Development . How to get [...]
I’ve been using WordPress for a little while and whilst its generally very good at what it does I do get frustrated by limitations in the editor.
The two things I miss the most are being able use tables and to set styles such a “Quotation”, “Note Callout” in the same way that you do in [...]
I’ve been using Rimu Hosting for about 6 months now to host various applications (SVN/Helpspot and others) and am very very impressed so far. True they are not the cheapest out there and don’t offer ‘unlimited’ bandwidth (which is the classic marketing lie anyway) but they do give a solid, reliable service. You get what [...]
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Jason over at Expat Software has written about how much friction is involved in signing up for StackOverflow because of their choice to use OpenID.
Compared to the zero friction process required to sign up to use his Twiddla service (just click new meeting) StackOverflow comes in at a frustrating 14 steps or so.
And he’s right [...]
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