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Sometimes work is good. Sometimes it’s interesting and exciting and all the other good words that you can think of. Sometimes though it’s not so good, and today definitely falls under that category. The frustrating thing is that I cant really talk about whats going on (not publicly at least) but suffice to say it’s [...]
Best….idea….ever! Vegetarians and health freaks look away now, because Burger King has launched a stomach-churning Windows 7-themed Whopper. The software-sponsored sandwich is filled with not one, not two, but an unbelievable seven meat patties. The burger went on sale in Burger King outlets in Japan today to mark the major OS upgrade. Our Japanese isn’t [...]
Just to clarify (since i read this after making my last post)….this is not the reason for me considering a mac purchase….though i am surprised that no-one has thought about sticking a touchpad on the end of a mouse before tbh It began with iPhone. Then came iPod touch. Then MacBook Pro. Intuitive, smart, dynamic. [...]
Cant sleep again so yet more blogging…. I’m working on a new internal application at work which will be used by various people around the world and i’m stumped! I’ve been asked to give it a name so that it can be recognised easily. This has basically left me with the following options – Call [...]
The company I work for in their infinte wisdom have decided to change their authentication methods for LDAP. The change iinvolves restricting binds to sessions which are connected over SSL instead of normal LDAP connections. This seems sensible enough but when you have 8 bajillion applications all using different authentication mechanisms (but still tied to [...]
For the past week or so i’ve been playing around with jQuery at work since discovering it when searching for themes/plugins/etc for here and I have to say that it’s pretty nice. It really takes the pain out of writing some pretty nifty javascript code for all sorts of stuff. The best bit about it [...]