Archive for February, 2010
Hosted Testing of Web Sites
There are other providers of this service but I like Adobe® BrowserLab. It is an online hosted service that lets you test the pages of your web site across a variety of web browsers and operating systems. The service works by taking screen shots of your web pages in different browsers, and then displaying them [...]
Social Networking comes to Outlook
Microsoft is extending its connector system. Its original incarnation simply allowed connections to web based mail systems. Integrated into the new Office 2010 (available in June) and available as add-on to Office 2007 comes a new Outlook Social Connector (OSC). This will allow content from social network sites to be viewed directly from within Outlook. [...]
Dewsbury Beer Festival
Developed new website for Dewsbury Beer Festival which is on May 20th to 22nd at the Town Hall which is in the centre of the town. For more information - Dewsbury Beer Festival.
Google Latitude
Neat use of geo-mapping from mobile phones - Google Latitude. The first implementation I saw of this was the tracking of a mobile sandwich van here http://www.golunchtime.com/wheres-delivery-van-right-now
Website Content Monitoring
The problem Having suffered downtime with a number of sites due to problems with MySQL user id’s I needed a method to monitor and alert when website/s was/were unavailable. The Options Use a site that provides free monitoring and alerting but they are mostly limited to single sites. If require more it is a premium paid for service. Use [...]
RAID is a saviour
Following a sudden disk crash a number of months I decided to review my whole configuration, storage and back-up strategy. C:\ – 200gb boot drive running Windows 7 purely used for OS and installed applications G:\ - installed a raid controller with simple configuration of raid 1 across 2 512gb SATA drives. This is my home [...]
Topsy – A search engine powered by tweets
What links are being shared the most on Twitter? This site not only shows you the top most links that are Tweeted but allows you to search on any URL. Topsy – A search engine powered by tweets.
