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Amazon Web Services

By dom | Published: 2011-10-11

I’m suddenly working with a few different AWS setups. I definitely like the flexibility and sheer scope of it. But that’s where its biggest problem comes from: the learning curve is considerable, just based on the massive number of services Amazon offer in AWS. Once up the curve, it’s actually all very simple to work [...]

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Adding extra IP addresses to Debian

By dom | Published: 2011-10-10

I was just asked to add a new IP address to a Debian cloud host. It’s a simple thing, but depending on how often – or how seldom – you do it, you often still need to look it up to remind yourself. So, having previously decided to do a post every time I do [...]

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Bluetooth headphone adaptor

By dom | Published: 2011-03-19

This has been one of my better buying decisions recently. I was looking at Sennheiser Bluetooth headphones, but as I have a few pretty decent ear-canal phones, Sennheiser headphones and others it seemed a little wasteful. So I started looking for a BT adaptor. Sony devices were getting good reviews, so I looked at the [...]

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exim vulnerability fun

By dom | Published: 2010-12-14

Lots of fun over weekend for admins with not-quite-latest exim… I’m getting emails from various services saying their user information databases were compromised, which I assumes related to the rootkits that the vulnerability allows you to install. Which makes me wonder: how many sites are storing passwords unencrypted? If a user database is compromised, and [...]

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IE6 CSS – let them eat cake?

By dom | Published: 2009-05-22

An interesting idea is presented on “for a beautiful web” regarding how best to deal with IE6 and its many failings. Universal Internet Explorer 6 CSS proposes that IE6 always gets sent a standard look and feel, so that the experience for its users is not bad – just not the full shebang. It’s clear [...]

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Protected: Development Standards: HTML

By dom | Published: 2009-04-15

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iPhone SDK 3.0 beta 3

By dom | Published: 2009-04-15

Beta 3 is out and the new OS fixes the non-working Youtube from the previous beta. [Update: and also breaks syncing, which now hangs on "Syncing contacts..."] [Update2: Seems like the contacts syncing hang was a temporary issue...]

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Development Standards: PHP

By dom | Published: 2009-04-15

We might as well start this series off at the bottom and work our way up. So, let’s start with PHP – it’s not the base of our stack, but it’s the first element that heavily requires some coding standards in place. As I said in the intro, this series will be about how I [...]

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Development Standards: Intro

By dom | Published: 2009-04-14

I’ve decided to write an occasional series of articles on coding and development standards. It will be how I see them – the standards I myself follow – so it might not be for everyone. What it will be is a guide to what to expect if I’m working for you, and what to expect [...]

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Screencast as development tool

By dom | Published: 2009-02-26

I’m in the middle of the first phase of building a new webapp and like most web developers (I would bet) when I show someone what I’ve done, it’s not apparent what marvels of engineering I’ve pulled off! So, in order to actually give a quick run-down of where we’re at with the application, I [...]

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