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HTML5 Multimedia Development Cookbook

July 26, 2011
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HTML5 multimedia development is a fairly comprehensive account of all the main features of the HTML5 specification written in a cookbook, hands on style. Covering the basic changes in html markup this book will show you how to leverage those changes to lay out beautifully semantic html5 web pages which are accessible and cross browser [...]

Interesting Video – HTML5, CSS3 and Browser Performance

April 25, 2011
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Just an interesting video about Javascript, HTML5, CSS3 and browser performance. I’m not sure where to find the slides and the links used in the slides etc. but the authors personal blog is loaded with lots of other useful front-end development info.

“Click” by Bill Tancer

April 3, 2009

I’m not really qualified to write a book review on “Click” by Bill Tancer. Especially considering I’m not particularly knowledgeable on the topic of human behaviour (well, like everyone else I’ve read Malcolm Gladwells books of course) and also considering that “Click” was so easy to read and hard to put down I chewed through [...]

Thoughts on facebook and twitter

March 19, 2009

There seems to be a lot of disquiet about the facebook changes. This installment of UI changes are coupled with the obligatory ‘We hate the changes’ groups and polls counting hundreds of thousands of users. Which might be a healthy sign from Facebook’s perspective – every time they roll out changes they resurrect their own [...]

Hacking your Uniden GNS8350

January 14, 2008

For Xmas I always buy myself something of a technical nature. This year I purchased a Uniden GNS 8350 GPS unit for myself. It sucks and needs serious work that Uniden don’t look like they are prepared to do.

Setting up Outlook to use an LDAP server for contacts

June 10, 2007

I recently got a request from one of our users at a larger site to be able to have all the staff’s contacts in their contact list. Upon investigating what can be done with simple old Microsoft Outlook and Active Directory I was suitably impressed. What these two enable you to do is to link [...]

Pinging [oy] with 32 bytes of data:

May 20, 2007

Where the “oy” have weird little French double dot things on the top of them. You can still ping by IP address but DNS and a whole lot of other stuff is poked. Even a repair install didn’t fix this! I was beside myself until uncovering a little documented command.

DNS Issues

January 19, 2007

DNS can be a pain in the ass. One of the most necessary components of the internet, and yet, one of the most widely misunderstood. I like to think of DNS as a phone book. Instead of looking up someones name and finding out the number to dial to talk to them, your computer looks [...]

Using PodUtil to rip your mp3s off an IPod.

January 9, 2007

Recently a mate of mine wanted a backup of his IPod as he was going overseas and it was likely to see some rough treatment. Easy I thought, plug the IPod in and copy the files off. WRONG! Apple wont let you do this and the music does not come up in “My Computer”. I [...]

Complicated processor specs

November 12, 2006

Anyone tried buying processors lately? What an expensive fiasco this turned into for me. I ordered 10 motherboards and 10 Intel processors and upon recieving them promptly found out that no longer do you just need to look at socket pattern (Socket #) and front side bus speed there are now other variables that will [...]

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