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Mr Numpty’s hair stood on end. It must be the static!

One fine day (well, it was raining – it is the UK after all), not too long ago (yesterday), there was a man called Mr Numpty (names changed to protect the innocent).  Mr Numpty was a seasoned Synergy developer and wrote Toolkit applications in his sleep (amazing what Workbench can do for you these days). [...]

Blunt Pencil?

I guess all jobs have their perks. This week visiting the office in California, in July, is certainly one of mine. OK, so being stuck in an air conditioned office all week is not exactly lapping up the sunshine, but today is Saturday and I’ve been loaned a bike!  Now, when I say bike, let me explain. It’s [...]

XP: The O’Hare of Computer Network Traffic

Not long ago, I found myself with a lot of time to kill while sitting in an airport and waiting out a flight delay. The culprit, I was told, was a weather system circling over Chicago. At first this seemed odd, since the plane I was awaiting had neither originated in nor connected through O’Hare. [...]

Starting Services on Linux

For a while now I’ve been wondering about what the correct way is to start boot time services such as the Synergy License Manager, xfServer and xfServerPlus on Linux systems. A few years ago I managed to “cobble something together” that seemed to work OK, but I had a suspicion that I only had part [...]

Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Hangs After Office Upgrade

Just incase you run into the same issue… This week I had to revert back to using Visual Studio 2008 while working on a customer project, and I pretty quickly found that I had a problem. I was working on an ASP.NET web project, and found that each time I opened a web page for [...]

Linux ls Color Coding

It’s always driven me CRAZY the way that RedHat, Fedora, and presumably other Linux systems apply color coding to various types of files and directories in the output of the ls command. It wouldn’t be so bad, but it seems like the default colors for various file types and protection modes are just totally unreadable [...]

Learning from Stupidity

I'll be the first to admit that I've done some really stupid things in my life. Like the time I decided to paddle a canoe across a mile-wide river even as threatening clouds loomed on the horizon.  Or the time I got stuck on a hike by taking a "short-cut" which involved shimmying around an overhang, leaving me suspended [...]

Windows Live SkyDrive

Have you ever wished there was an easy way to view and edit your documents on different computers, in different locations, in fact … from anywhere, and without having to carry USB thumb drives, or log in to a VPN. Well there is, and it’s free. For some time now Microsoft have offered a free [...]

Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

I’ve been writing web applications for years, but I’ve never really had to put too much thought into whether search engines such as Google and Bing were finding the sites that I have worked on, or whether they were deducing appropriate information about those sites and giving them their appropriate ranking in search results. The [...]

Using Workbench to build applications on remote servers

I recently went to a customer site, to help them integrate Workbench into their OpenVMS development environment.  As a source code editor, the “integration” is relatively simple, you just need to have NFS/CIFS/SAMBA installed, and use it to make your OpenVMS (or UNIX) drives look like they’re actually Windows drives.  However, when you want to [...]

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