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WordPress 3: Thelonious

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A brief video introduction of WordPress version 3: [...]

Firefox woes

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I have been a huge fan of Firefox for a few years now.

My chief motivation for the switch was Firebug, and the adherence to standards.

As of yesterday I switched to Internet Explorer 8. Firefox was simply freezing up my machine — hogging memory and processor power like no-ones business. I have found it almost impossible to [...]

Facebook Chat Skype v4.1 integration

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I have just upgraded to the newest version of Skype — version4.1, and noticed that there is a Facebook / Skype integration…

If you have Skype running on your machine, you can see the status of other Skype Contacts in the Facebook Chat list, as well as next to their names in your New Feed. Clicking on the Skype icon starts a Chat or [...]

Plaxo no longer free as of end of July

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As of the end of this month (July 2009), Plaxo started charging in the region of $50 per annum for premium services, like the Microsoft Outlook synchronize function. I have often wondered what I would do if any of these free services / applications suddenly started charging.

I have been using Plaxo for years now to [...]

Stop the Skype plugin from breaking your design

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It took me a bit of searching to find this line of code to stop the Skype browser plug-in from automatically styling all the telephone numbers in your [...]

WordPress 2.7

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I have just upgraded to the latest version of WordPress. As usual, it was an absolute breeze!

CSV to MySQL conversion script

A handy script to quickly generate MySQL INSERT statements from CSV data. This script will create SQL INSERT statements from your pasted CSV data. Enter the name of the table (which you have already created), and then paste the data into the main input block.

Create your MySQL database – I use phpMyAdmin
Open your Excel [...]

Google Chrome – first impressions

I have just downloaded Google’s new browser, Google Chrome, after overhearing someone in the office mention it. My first thought was naturally (as a developer): OMG – not another browser to support. I am using it to write this post – so far so good…

It imported my settings (Bookmarks, etc) effortlessly from Firefox.
It has an [...]

Time and date

As the sites I work on at Touchwork are all business intelliegence reporting portals, I do a lot of coding around time and date functions.

My colleague sent me this quote today which seems very apt:

Our units of temporal measurement, from seconds on up to months, are so complicated, asymmetrical and disjunctive so as to make [...]

TinyMCE HTML Editor

There are some great Inline HTML editors available for use on web-pages. I have used TinMCE’s offering before, and turned to them again for when created a content managed site for a new site.

The client specifically wanted to be able to paste text directly from Microsoft Word documents. Those of you who have tried this [...]