Dev
Why is it so Difficult?
A famous blogger discovers the obvious. Yes, Writely “supports” the Metaweblog API, as people have been discovering over the past week. I put “supports” in quotes because the support sucks. Why is it so hard? Even Dave’s hastily hacked together mobile blogging tool makes a correct post to my WordPress blog, but Writely drops the [...]
RIP PalmOS
We interrupt your normal broadcasting with this special bulletin from our reporter in the field.. For over 5 years now I’ve been a PalmOS developer working in three different companies, developing a series of interesting and cutting edge products in this niche market. I’ve developed on PalmOS devices from the Palm Personal to the Treo650 [...]
Vista Rewrite Malarkey
There has been a ton of hot air circulating about a spurious claim that Microsoft is planning to rewrite “up to 60%” of Vista before release, hence the retail release delayed until 2007. Scoble jumped all over this immediately, denying everything and being hugely defensive – as you would. Not that it makes a jot [...]
Amazon Launches Web Storage Service
Amazon has preemted any sort of official Gmail data storage system by launching S3 or “Simple Storage Service”. TechCrunch has the scoop. Admittedly this systems is aimed at developers rather than end users, but it’s still a damn big deal.
Fun StackTrace of the Day
I love a good ambiguous error message as much as the next guy, and injecting some fun into those error messages always makes my day. We came across a strange error in our database connection code the other day, and the following (100% genuine, Microsoft generated) stacktrace was part of the error: [code]Stack Trace at [...]
Out Damn Ampersand!
I’m a bit of a stickler for perfection, and in terms of the interweb, perfection starts with valid XHTML. I just can’t help but feel dirty in some way when the all powerful validator returns errors. So you can imagine my chagrin when the validator started complaining about a dirty ampersand in my page. Upon [...]
Response.Redirect Draws a Blank
Found a nasty little bug in ASP.NET 1.1 this morning. Once again I’m documenting it for my personal archives and the Googlers. This one results from using a combination of Response.Redirect, SmartNavigation and secure (HTTPS) connections. The page in question was designed to save changes, then redirect to the original calling page, so the contents [...]
Going Mobile
I figured since I’m such a PDA geek, I’d better at least have a mobile version of this site. And why do something yourself when someone else has already made a WordPress plugin to do it for you? Anyway, you can see how the mobile version works here (or spoof your useragent to something like [...]
Avast!
Arrr ye scurvy bilge rats! In celebration of the best day of the year, I’ve tweaked the site layout. However I be havin’ a bit o’ a problem with that great bane of all pirates, Internet Explorer. Take a gander at these two shots and tell me why Internet Explorer is givin’ me a whole [...]
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