Archive for February, 2007

I recently had a problem when working with SVN on an old website. I was taking the rather dated site off a Windows server and placing it onto a Linux machine.
This was great although the site was littered with case insensitivities, one example was a spacer.gif which was called SPACER.gif in the filesystem, meaning any [...]

A few days with Xbox live

Feb. 27, 2007 No Comments Posted under: Games, Technology

I have had a few days with Xbox live now and have mixed feelings about it.
First off the idea is fatastic. You can have a list of friends, be notified when ever they come online, invite them to private chats or even into the game your playing.
The problem is it’s not quite all there yet, [...]

My flatmate emailed me about this yesterday:
“The BBC plans to launch an on-demand tv service which uses software that will only be available to Windows users. The BBC should not be allowed to show commercial bias in this way, or to exclude certain groups of the population from using its services. The BBC say that [...]

Fun with google maps

Feb. 24, 2007 1 Comment Posted under: Ajax, Development, JavaScript

Over the last few days at work I had some time to get creative with Google maps. I was asked to implement google maps in a pop up window, which having never done before I expected would take a fair amount of time. However implementing what we had seen on another site was more or [...]

Xbox live-ing it up

Feb. 21, 2007 2 Comments Posted under: Games

Yesterday myself and Tom took the plunge. After a quite launch of Ceros 1.7.3 we went to the ABCE meeting on web statistics (which in its self was fascinating). After, we headed home via Oxford street and after checking out a few shops went for the 360 pro system for £275 plus Rainbow 6 Vegas. [...]