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Author Archives: Angus Hardie
10.5 support
At the moment I believe that both SQLEditor and HTMLValidator are compatible with Mac OS X 10.5 and should work without functional difficulty. A minor issue that I found is that the toolbar icons don’t look very good against the … Continue reading
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OneMonthApp and SQLEditor
OneMonthApp is using SQLEditor! OneMonthApp is a project where they are building a complete web application in a month. It’s going to be a simple and easy to use cash flow application, apparently. And they’re going to make it free, … Continue reading
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DHL
Got a package this morning delivered by DHL and an interesting thing happened. I recognised the delivery person and the delivery person recognised me. Which was nice. 🙂 I think they must work a particular route, because the same woman … Continue reading
Automatically fill in captcha fields
I get tired of filling in captcha fields on forms. Wouldn’t it be handy if there was a facility in web browsers to fill them in automatically. 🙂
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Television
This says it all really. (Though saying that there are still some smart shows on tv. I just wanted to link to that page)
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Google Tech Talks
I’ve been watching educational stuff on the internet recently. One of the things that I really like is Google Tech Talks on Google Video. These are talks given at Google on different subjects and many are now available online. Amongst … Continue reading
iTunes tv shows in the UK
Well the iTunes store is finally offering tv shows in the uk. It’s totally disappointing. The prices are ridiculously expensive and the list of shows is small. All of the MalcolmHardie software sales are denominated in dollars so I watch … Continue reading
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XML, UTF-8 and Java
Apparently, valid UTF-8 strings aren’t necessarily valid XML. You can get a situation where you have valid UTF-8 strings which fail xml parsing. Fortunately Mark McLaren offers a solution.
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Retro Mac OS WordPress theme
This made me laugh when I saw it: http://www.modernlifeisrubbish.co.uk/article/retro-mac-os-wordpress-theme Definitely memories of simpler times 😉
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Native Mobile apps almost impossible to develop?
I’ve been reading stuff recently about creating native (non-java) mobile phone apps. The key thing is application signing. In an attempt to prevent viruses and malicious code from being run on mobile devices, the major platforms require that applications are … Continue reading
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SQLEditor 1.4b2
Another day, another beta. (Kind of) SQLEditor 1.4b2 is now available, which is pretty much bug fixing against 1.4b1. There were several issues with 1.4b1 including an annoying bug that would sometimes delete foreign key connectors when you deleted an … Continue reading
Site redesign
So, if you’ve visited the MalcolmHardie.com site today you’ll have seen the new site design. It’s Blue. But that’s not all. The layout structure of each page has been substantially changed (for the first time since 2004, I think) . … Continue reading
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HTMLValidator 1.0
HTMLValidator 1.0 is finally released. As I write this, it’s been out since Friday, so I guess I’m a bit late in writing this. HTMLValidator 1.0 is identical to HTMLValidator 1.0b8, except of course that it 1) doesn’t expire and … Continue reading
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OpenMoko developer hardware
I love the idea of the OpenMoko platform, an open source mobile phone. It uses linux as the operating system built on a fairly open hardware platform. (Some of the drivers are closed source, apparently due to licensing restrictions) You … Continue reading
Disable “You have new mail” terminal message
By default in linux you get a message saying something like You have new mail in when you log into a linux machine. Sometimes this gets annoying because you always have new mail, or because there seems to be a … Continue reading
The phrase ICT
I really hate the abbreviation “ICT”. Somehow every time I hear it I get slightly annoyed with it. Fortunately it looks like other people don’t like it either. 🙂 ICT which stands for Information and Communication Technology is usually the … Continue reading
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“I would argue that the fact that there are 100,000 people in China who are paid to play the boring parts of World of Warcraft is evidence of serious flaws in the game’s design.” Brandon Berg [link] (in the comments) … Continue reading
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Email legal statements in headers
Graham Miln at Dssw has an interesting article talking about adding legally required information to emails using headers instead of using signature blocks. He also talks about a defined microformat for the data. This is interesting to me, because I’m … Continue reading
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WWDC: Windows
It looks like Apple is not moving into any kind of virtualization or emulation of Windows. Although Boot Camp is said to be included, it doesn’t appear that it will work noticably differently to current arrangments (ie. dual boot). This … Continue reading
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WWDC keynote: Games
(Watching WWDC keynote log over at MacRumors.com) (It seems to be a blogging day for me?) Gaming seems to be one of the big things at this year’s WWDC keynote. EA is apparently going to be doing simultaneous releasing of … Continue reading