October 2006 - Simon Angling

Getting Real

Published by Simon Angling on October 30, 2006

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…

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Fighting Comment Spam

Published by Simon Angling on October 22, 2006

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…

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Wrong location in live.com

Published by Simon Angling on October 10, 2006

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…

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Intel offers prize for sexiest PC

Published by Simon Angling on October 1, 2006

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…

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Month: October 2006

Getting Real

Fighting Comment Spam

Wrong location in live.com

Intel offers prize for sexiest PC