November 2006
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- Fixing the WAG54G
I’ve had my Linkssys WAG54G (a wifi router and four-port switch) for about eighteen months, but ove...
Published on 01 November in general - XHTML hilarity
It’s funny to watch this Sending XHTML as text/html not-considerd-harmful after all (which is wrong, of course) post get a load of co...
Published on 02 November in general - Wikis in the public sector
One of my colleagues, Marieke Guy, has just written a puntastically-titled article entitled W...
Published on 02 November in general - Things that annoy me about Firefox 2 UI
No close button on every tab No close button at the right of the tab bar highlight text, right-click, search uses the selected Search Box engine, not Google scrolli...
Published on 05 November in general - Opensearch in Firefox 2 and IE7
We recently rolled out the Google Search Appliance at work, replacing the ageing (and dreadful) htdig (wikipedia link since the website appears to b...
Published on 06 November in general - War (on XML), what is it good for?
Were switching to XML a requirement for reaping compelling benefits, the public would indubitably have moved. So would the majority browser engine. So if the major...
Published on 07 November in general - Automating web testing
We’re just starting to ramp up the amount of testing we do on our web apps at work, mostly via the use of JUnit and some ...
Published on 10 November in general - Web application uptime
Is it better for a web app to be up and broken (parts working, others not), or for the whole thing to be down when something is broken? Is there more of a case for leaving an app up and brok...
Published on 13 November in general - Trains forever
I’m sure that if I added up all the time I spent waiting on train platforms, I’d have plenty of time to get all my work done. I know, that’s it! The reason my project is behind is because it’s the ...
Published on 13 November in general - Mobile Teletext
I q...
Published on 14 November in general - Teaching website shambles
The...
Published on 16 November in general - Sony Ericsson W950i - better than the Nokia N91?
I like Symbian, and I can write code for it. This has mostly limited me to the Nokia brand of phones so far. I am interested in getting a new phone, but am slightly out of touch on the lates...
Published on 16 November in general - UK Biometric Passports cracked
I hope that you’re not putting a lot of faith in the new biometric passports (my wife just got one) because any half-capable pro...
Published on 17 November in general - REST vs WS-*
I think that James Snell’s post on this pretty much covers my thoughts on
Published on 17 November in general - XBox 360 advertising splurge
I thought I was going mad this morning as I was reading the metro (a free daily newspaper in the UK) – there seemed to be ads for games *everywhere*. I realise...
Published on 17 November in general - Twittering
I’ve finally signed up to twitter now I realise that it’s not SMS-only (because what fool pays for that?) and I can update via IM. It seems cute. The IM ...
Published on 21 November in general - Dumping BlogBridge
I was doing OK with BlogBridge, but in the last month it’s dropped all my data twice and then prevented me from re-importing all my feeds by disabling all t...
Published on 22 November in general - Google Books inaccessibility
I know that the accessibility is somewhat of an old topic, but still: <span class="pseudolink">Fu...
Published on 23 November in general - Calling Yahoo REST web services with Ruby query parameter problems
I’m an idiot and req = Net::HTTP::Get.new(url.path+'?'+url.query) is my friend.
Published on 29 November in general