For a while now, I’ve been wanting to learn how to build and develop mobile applications on Android, I made a start using Appcelerators Titanium, but not long after during a press conference, a certain fruit seller announce his phone was banning apps developed using 3rd party tools. While this didn’t affect me directly, as […]
Missing TortoiseSVN Shell Icon overlays
This has been bugging me for weeks and today I finally found and resolved the problem so thought I should share in case anyone else has this problem too. I couldn’t remember when I first noticed they were missing but when ever I checked a working folder on my laptop the tortoise svn icon overlays […]
Verify your domain via DNS
Google have announce another way to verify you own a domain in their webmaster tools, via a DNS TXT record. This solves a problem I have had many times in that it verifies the whole domain. Until now, you had to verify you owned every sub-domain on a domain before you could use webmaster tools […]
First IE9 Platform Preview Available for Developers
Microsoft’s IE development team have announced their first developer preview for the latest version of Internet Explorer. IE9 is rumoured to include several <html5> and CSS3 elements, making it a real contender in the new range of “modern browsers”. You can read more about the release on the IE Blog, or jump straight over to […]
Enable broken image placeholders in Firefox
Something that has always bugged me about Firefox is that if it encounters a broken image it doesn’t display an image place-holder. Instead it displays the alt attribute as in-line text. This can cause problems if your primary development browser is Firefox, as you may not notice broken images on a page. For a while […]