It’s not called brown bread!
Scott Hanselman: I’m asking for brown bread rather than wheat, …
cURL for Windows
I had a look around yesterday for an up-to-date binary of cURL to run on Windows. The build I had already didna€™t support SSL. This page has a builds with b...
What if there already was broad support for XHTML?
W3C XHTML 1.0 Appendix C: This appendix summarizes design guidelines for authors who wish their XHTML documents to render on existing HTML user agents.
Investigating git
Sam Ruby: Whenever I find myself updating a script I wrote months or even years ago, these days my first step is to do a git init.
Well-formed mark-up?
Therea€™s an interesting debate going on in the W3C HTML working group about whether well-formed HTML is important in the specification process for HTML5. It...
Installing Vista unattended
Ia€™ve been spending some time on a side project to create a Vista boot image that installs unattended and configures a development machine with all the tool...
Comfy Chair
I finally got around to buying a proper chair to sit on to use my PC at home.
Have another SWIG…
This is mostly a bookmark for me because this isna€™t something I need right now but is definitely something I can see needing in the future. According to th...
XMLStarlet Command Line XML Toolkit
I’ve recently been writing some scripts to automate a test harness. The test harness takes in an XML file as it’s input. It turns out that most of the tests ...
A trip to the US Embassy for a visa interview
Back in early July, I had to head off to the US Embassy in London for the interview for my work visa to come and live out in Seattle. While there was lots of...
Upgrading to Subtext 2.0
I followed the last few changes to Subtext 2.0 through the Subtext mailing list over the last couple of months and fully intended to upgrade to the pre-relea...
Running managed code from a network share
Since the launch of .NET all those years ago now, one issue keeps coming up for me. You create a quick proof-of-concept and stick it on a network share so th...
Puddle Jumping
I realise that this post is way overdue but I’ve finally made the time to sit down and write up my news.
What does “done” mean to you?
Scott Hanselman discusses Scrum with Ken Schwaber in his recent Hanselminutes podcast. A large part of the conversation centres on the meaning of a€oedonea€...
Nostalgia
Clearing out my loft I came across my collection of Sinclair paraphernalia. I worked my way up through the Sinclair systems, ZX-81, ZX-Spectrum and ultimatel...
Cake irony
Apparently, the IE team sent a celebration cake to Mozilla to congratulate them on shipping Firefox 3. It’s ironic that the mozillalinks.org page describing ...
MVC vs. MVP
Phil Haack has a succinct description of the difference between MVC and MVP based on an explanation of why MVP evolved. Good stuff.
My AutoHotkey Script
James asked for the script I use. It’s actually very simple and doesn’t take advantage of any advanced features of AutoHotkey at present. Here it is:
Elevated command prompt from a hotkey
While I think UAC is a good thing, it gets pretty annoying when running lots of commands at the command line that just turn around and say “sorry, I need to ...
Dell’s lack of service - no M1330 after all
I ordered the Dell XPS M1330 with a specific trip in mind. Before ordering, I confirmed with their online sales agent whether if I ordered at that moment I w...
.NET Framework Fixes
There’s a big long list of problems that are fixed in the .NET Framework Service Pack 1 in this knowledge base article (945757). Some of these have very gene...
Dell XPS M1330
I’ve been considering buying a new laptop for home for a little while. I want something I can take away with me that contains no work stuff so that, especial...