I always remember speaking to a gas fitter who came to install a new boiler at my house once about how things in his trade had changed. He said ten years ago it would take a couple of men a morning or even the best part of a day to replace a boiler. Nowadays it’s [...]
Need a good looking prompt that shows which branch your working from, try this; PS1=’\[\033[00;32m\]\u\[\033[01m\]@\[\033[00;36m\]\h\[\033[01m\]:\[\033[00;35m\]\w\[\033[00m\]\[\033[01;30m\](`git branch 2>/dev/null|tr -d \*\ `)\[\033[00m\]\$ ‘ Check it….
So, after leaving full time employment and becoming self employed I worked for a digital agency in Ipswich on a short contract. Whilst I was there I came to realise how important SEO is, I mean, I knew how important it was before but this place did it well, really well! So I knew if [...]
Discovered the opacitymask property today! If you want to be able to apply a gradient brush to an object in one direction, but change the opacity in another (think blending out objects horizontally against a background with a gradient running vertically) then you can do it like this… <Rectangle> <Rectangle.OpacityMask> <LinearGradientBrush EndPoint="0.0,0.5" StartPoint="1,0.5"> <GradientStop Color="#FF000000" [...]
Discover a nasty little problem with EF today. If you design an Entity Framework object against a instance of SQL Server 2008 and then try and use said objects against an instance of say 2005, you can run in to all sorts of problems with data types unknown to 2005. If this does happen, pop [...]
Anyone who knows me is very aware of the fact that I am a big Linux fan and have no doubt sat in despair as I have bawled on and on about how great it is, which it is. I can certainly remember sitting working on a website with a colleague using ASP and VB6 COM components [...]
I have just started renting a brand spanking new server in the heart of a super-fast German data centre. So I am currently moving sites over from my Slicehost virtual server, sorry Slicehost, nothing personal, its just for a little bit more cash I can get a dedicated box. This is a resurrection of my old multitouch blog [...]