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Browser Wars – the next generation

Posted on Thursday 23 October 2008 by

On Monday Steve and I attended an Opera Software University Seminar hosted here at the University of St Andrews, one of many stops on their world tour of educational institutions. I found it an interesting and encouraging hour long presentation … Continue reading →

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101 Five-Minute Fixes to Incrementally Improve Your Web Site

Posted on Thursday 20 March 2008 by

Spotted on Nate Koechley’s (Yahoo!) blog: 101 Five-Minute Fixes to Incrementally Improve Your Web Site

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Hard drive domino rally

Posted on Friday 1 February 2008 by

As spotted on CustomPC: What do you do when you’ve got 1,500 spare hard drives? Watch the video

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Sun buys MySQL for $1 billion

Posted on Thursday 17 January 2008 by

If you’ve been reading Sun CEO and President Jonathan Schwartz’s blog recently (as I’m sure you all do) you’ll know that Sun have bought MySQL AB for US $1 billion. Here it is from the MySQL AB end. Whose SQL … Continue reading →

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Version control and bug tracking

Posted on Wednesday 10 October 2007 by

A Web 2.0 hamster and owner (photo from stock.xchng) For the last couple of months I’ve been using a couple of free tools for personal version control and bug tracking issues. While there may be bigger, better products out there, … Continue reading →

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Tokbox – cool live video many to many free Web 2.0 app

Posted on Friday 21 September 2007 by

Folks – check out http://www.tokbox.com/ and see Brian Kelly live at: http://www.tokbox.com/ukwebfocus (note: no slash at the end of this URL)

Posted in News, Video, Web 2.0 | 1 Comment

IWMW discussion topics for Abertay meeting

Posted on Friday 21 September 2007 by

Re discussion topics for Abertay, I spoke to Brian Kelly at some length yesterday, and he would very much like the Scottish Web Folk group to take a leading role in IWMW 2008. Elements he’d like us to lead on … Continue reading →

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