It’s been a while since I made a blog post.  Today, however, there is something worth writing about. XIP-1324 went live today in Talis Aspire.  That code number won’t mean anything to most people but it’s indelibly imprinted into my … Continue reading →

A while ago I wrote about an issue with CPU spiking in Internet Explorer 7, recently I encountered another instance of this that required a different fix. To recap, we have a rich-client drag-drop interface across two scrolling panes.  You … Continue reading →

Internet Explorer has a way of driving web developers up the wall.  Every version has its own glut of bugs and quirks, some just irritating and some downright bizarre.   It's one of those bizarre ones that I've been looking at … Continue reading →

A couple of weeks ago I was out on a lunchtime walk around the Business Park and bumped into someone I used to work with a few years ago at Severn Trent Systems (about 200m from where I work now).    … Continue reading →

I've known for a good while now that I need to make more time out of work hours to look at the things I don't get chance to do at work.  This list gets longer and longer and the time … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →