Yesterday lunchtime, Lewis Peckover (@lewispeckover) noticed that mobile browsers on O2′s UK network were sending the phone’s number to websites as an HTTP header, resulting in this information being available to the websites browsed. This information is not present when … Continue reading
Wrong! The wording of the proposed SOPA legislation means that a huge number of websites can be classed as “facilitating the commission of copyright infringement”. For example: A blog which allows users to post comments An e-commerce site which allows … Continue reading
Yesterday, the world lost a great visionary in Steve Jobs, who is synonymous with the Apple brand he co-founded. While reading reports of his death, I came across this great quote of his which I thought I’d share: No one … Continue reading
For years and years, I’ve used open source applications and libraries. The more I used, the more I felt guilty for taking advantage of other people’s hard work. I’m not sure I’m alone in feeling that, but for years I’ve … Continue reading
Today, I decided to install a NuGet gallery on our development server at work, in order that we can host our internal packages there, and make them easily available to all projects. The problem, our development server is not exactly … Continue reading
Since the launch of Google+ last month, I’ve seen quite a few blog posts about whether Google+ has anything new to offer in the social media space, or indeed whether it will even survive. I thought I could maybe add … Continue reading
We’re now supposed to believe that Internet Explorer is no longer baked into the Windows operating system. So, why is it when I upgrade to IE9 via Windows Update, that it needs me to close so much stuff. The list … Continue reading
Setting up Mercurial to serve repositories using IIS has been on my to do list for months. I had a quick go at it late last year, but was thwarted by confusing solutions which quite frankly, just didn’t work for … Continue reading
I’ve been following the harrowing news this week about the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear accident in Japan, triggered by the 9.0 magnitude earthquake which struck last Friday. I can’t even begin to imagine how devastating it must be for those … Continue reading
This one has caused me some problems recently. I have a Visual Studio solution I downloaded, yet double clicking on the solution file in Windows Explorer does not open the solution. I know it’s a Visual Studio 2010 solution, because … Continue reading