The topic of the, seemingly, detiorating levels of respect, politeness and consideration came up several times today. A few of us went for a walk around the Business Park over lunch and it probably came up after I recountered an event that happened on the way into work today… I needed petrol today and left […]
Author Archives: andrew
Frustrating week
It's been a frustrating week so far but thankfully it is nearly over….just one more day. I've been up to my neck in IE7 performance issues, debugging JavaScript events en masse and generally trying to juggle too many balls in my head with numerous distractions going on around me. There are a million and one […]
Recruitment agents and LinkedIn
I'm getting a bit tired of lazy recruitment agents and their tactics to try and have an easy ride. Normally it's just endless email spam about totally irrelevant roles in totally ittelevant locations for a pathetic amount of money. Most get totally ignored but the exceptionally irrelevant ones get a reply with something along the […]
W3C Case Study: A Linked Open Data Resource List Management Tool for Undergraduate Students
For the last few months at work I've been lucky enough to put my RIA hat back on again after a period of absence doing traditional J2EE and PHP apps with a strong accessibility bent. Working on these kind of apps is something I have enjoyed immensely since first doing a 'rich client' webapp back […]
Subversion 1.5 on Gentoo
A couple of weeks ago I needed to look something up regarding Subversion and headed off to grab the latest copy of “Version Control with Subversion” online. Whilst looking through it I noticed that Subversion 1.5 had been released without me noticing and that there were a couple of interesting new features. The main one […]
Windows 7 – just let me download it !
After noticing an announcement on availability of the Windows 7 public beta the other day, I sat at home last night and waited for 8pm GMT to come along to try and get my hands on one of the 2.5 million keys. Needless to say public demand overloaded the servers and MS decided to pull […]
BT iPlate- bargain gadget for improving your broadband speed
No, it's not another Apple product. It's a rather simple, yet brilliant, device for those of us suffering poor broadband speeds with noisy lines, a 3-day camel journey away from the 'local' exchange. I bought the iPlate from BroadbandBuyer and it turned up today. More top service from the excellent BroadbandBuyer site. It's a 5 […]
Draytek vs. Belkin – no contest!
Over the Christmas break I decided it was time to replace my aging ADSL broadband modem/router. I've been using a Draytek Vigor 2600We for quite a few years now and it has given me solid, reliable service. I hardly ever have to reboot it, months apart, and normally only when I've flooded the wireless connection […]
New year; fresh installs and stuff
Well a new year is here and with it I have some nice fresh dev tools to use. PDT 2.0 was released on 29th December 2008 and is something I've been looking forward to as a keen PDT user for a while. PDT 2.0 is much better with dynamic languages now that it's using the […]
Scriptaculous 'Draggable' in scrolling container ignores Position.includeScrollOffsets=true ?
UPDATE: This only happens when “ghosting” is set to true on the draggable – unfortunately, I need ghosting to be enabled on what I am doing… I've been chasing a problem round for about a day now and am convinced there is a problem in the latest version of Script.aculo.us (v 1.82) – I've created […]