Getting Real

Every web developer should read Getting Real by the guys at 37signals and now there is no excuse. 37signals have just released a full copy of the book in html on their website. In case you don’t know 37 Signals is are behind the popular web applications Backpack, Basecamp, and Campfire. They are also the [...]

Fighting Comment Spam

The Blog has only been up a few weeks and I’m starting to see more and more comment spam appearing on the website. I decided to start clearing up but before I do I wanted to llook at ways of slowing it down. I was looking at some info about adding a Captcha (Completely Automated [...]

Wrong location in live.com

I’ve been looking at the newly out of beta Live.com search engine. The biggest problem I have encountered is that the location seems to be wrongly detected. I am located in South Africa – I have checked my regional setting on my computer and they are correct. If I search in Firefox I notice that [...]

Intel offers prize for sexiest PC

Intel is offering $1m in prizes to designers and manufacturers who can come up with sexier alternatives to the “big, beige box”. It seems to me that if Apple entered then they would be the most likely to win this competition currently. Personally I quite fancy a 24″ iMac for Christmas. On the other hand [...]