What's in the ongoing learning category?

Quote Calculator mini web application

Wednesday, December 31st, 2008

In Agile software design they have an expression called DRY or Don’t Repeat Yourself. But it can be extrapolated beyond the realms of software. And here I am repeating myself answering emails that require much the same answer.

Clean install means fast boot?

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

The quest for speed goes on and having messed around with RAID block sizes I was about to give up and put my system back the way it was. Then I came across an article which said that they had experienced much faster performance from a clean install.

Embedded Flash content working with Internet Explorer

Saturday, April 12th, 2008

I noticed that there were numerous mentions of the ieupdate.js in various forms. Some put the code snippet directly into the page source and others called it from the head. Some used conditional comments and others didn’t. I tried all of these that I could find but none of them seemed to do the trick. So what was I missing?