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It’s been a few months since I attended a Microsoft event but last night I made the trip to Reading for a session on planning and deploying Microsoft Office SharePoint Server. Hosted by a vendor (rather than one of the IT Professional technical evangelist team), I was initially unsure of how useful the event [...]

I’m really trying to use good, semantic, XHTML and CSS on this website but sometimes it’s hard work. Even so, the validation tools that I’ve used have helped me to increase my XHTML knowledge and most things can be tweaked – I’m really pleased that this page current validates as both valid XHTML 1.1 [...]

Yesterday, I wrote a post about using Alex King’s WordPress Mobile Edition plugin (wp-mobile) to generate WordPress content formatted for the mobile web. wp-mobile makes the code generation seamless; however I did have a few issues when I came to validating the output at the ready.mobi site. After a few hours (remember, I’m [...]

A few nights back, I was reading a .net magazine article about developing websites enabled for mobile content.
As my blog is written primarily for technical people, it seems logical to assume that a reasonable proportion of its readers could make use of access from a mobile device, especially as the magazine article’s author, Brian Fling, [...]

I just stumbled upon Jeff Atwood’s Coding Horror blog and it’s very interesting reading (even for those of us who write very little code). The article that I found was commenting on Jakob Nielsen’s latest tome on web usability. Although Nielsen makes some valid points, the comments are worth a read as they [...]

If you read many Apple or Mac OS X forums, magazines or listen to Mac-related podcasts, soon enough you’ll come across a comment about how Windows Vista was late to market, only just competes with Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) and how OS X 10.5 (Leopard) will rewrite history and further boost Apple’s growth. [...]

Here’s something that no webmaster wants to see:

It’s part of a screenshot from the Google Webmaster Tools that says “[Google] can’t current access your home page because of a robots.txt restriction”. Arghh!
This came about because, a couple of nights back, I made some changes to the website in order to remove the duplicate content [...]

It’s generally accepted that Macs are great computers for graphic design and audio-visual work – so why is it so hard to play Windows Media content on a Mac? I know that QuickTime is the centre of Apple’s audio-visual experience – so why should Apple support competing formats – but perhaps I should really [...]

I know that modern cars contain several computers (obviously there is engine management, then there is access control, in-car entertainment, possibly satellite navigation, etc.) but I’ve just returned from the local Saab dealership after having to have the electric windows reprogrammed! Next month the car is going back to have some bits of trim [...]

Earlier this week, I needed to play back a .AVI file in iTunes/Front Row. That’s not really a problem as it’s easy to convert the video to a .MOV file using Apple QuickTime Pro but one major issue was a complete lack of sound.
Now, before I go any further I should explain that there [...]