I have had Regex Buddy for both windows and Linux for about 4/5 months now and I really don't know what I would do without it. Regex buddy makes it easy to build up regular expressions with the explanation for each step of the way. There is a section…
I got down to Brighton bright and early for d.Construct Clear:left's grassroots web 2.0 conference. After being ushered in by Richard Rutter through the side door along with a couple of other early birds I sat down and booted up my powerbook to check my mail on…
I'll be driving down to the d.Construct conference in Brighton early tomorrow morning. I'm looking forward to seeing Stuart Langridge, Simon Willison and Cory Doctorow's presentations in particular. This whole conference is about Web 2.0 and having listened to LUG Radio - season three episode 2 I think…
I'm pretty settled in with my powerbook now and so I thought I'd share my experiences using OSX from the point of view of being a windows and linux user. Even if you don't have a Mac now, if you think one day you might switch then bookmark this as…
Ever since the May 1st Reboot I've wanted to change quite a lot about my site. This version has seen those changes implemented. Though at first it looks like not much has happened visually, quite a lot of changes have taken place in this revision. To make the most of…
Learning to develop web-sites using web standards is a bit like learning the guitar, it's fairly easy to get started but to master it takes years of hard work and learning. With the right approach you can become more efficient. Content first Historically I would have started a project by…
This Saturday I will be going to collect my 12" Powerbook that I recently bought on Ebay. I've been hankering after one of these for literally years, and as I need a small machine with wireless for travelling the 12" seems the obvious choice. This is going to be a…
I decided to check out Breezy Badger the latest version of Ubuntu linux. First I thought I would try the in place upgrade from Hoary to Breezy by altering /etc/apt/sources.list to the Breezy repositories and then running sudo apt-get update and sudo apt-get dist-upgrade. First all seemed…