If you have a Dell Precision M6500 with a Synaptic TouchPad + TrackPoint) (rather than an ALPS version) and you are running Ubuntu 10.10 you may find the TrackPoint / TrackStick / Nipple is being detected as a standard PS/2 Generic Mouse and this is causing the movement to be very slow. You can check […]

http://www.hemispheregames.com/osmos/ Very chilled out…

Now for some web specific whys/values I do the in-memory acceptance testing… Semantic Html is my golden hammer Progressive enhancement is my swiss army knife I love JavaScript but try to never write any but if i must I make sure it’s generic. I try very hard to make sure no else writes any either […]

Wow Dyson have done it again: http://www.dyson.co.uk/technology/airmultiplier.asp Interestingly they talk about the fact they had to do “Hundreds of iterative tests” to get the design right: http://www.dyson.co.uk/insidedyson/default.asp#Air_Mult_Tech_Dev

So I noticed an issue with Google Chromium and it not updating the cached entry with new headers on a HTTP 304 response. So I logged the issue last weekend and bang! 6 days later the issue is resolved and I have a new version of the browser on my desktop. Not only was the […]

So after rediscovering the distraction free editors to write reports, it seemed mad not to use the same environment to update my blog. I really like the fact that the editor only supports plain text and didn’t want to reduce the readability of the plain text by having lots of unneeded markup all over the […]