This week, I joined my Windows 7 laptop to my Windows SBS 2011 domain. I have been using a local user “Simon” but also have a domain user “Simon” so, quite naturally, I wanted to join them together in some way so that all the stuff and settings I had built up with the local Read More
Windows Installer for Apache Maven 2
I’ve been playing around with Windows Installer XML (WiX) recently – I used it to create the installer for Year Chart and I’ve since converted a couple of internal projects (I may publish them later) which I had originally created InstallShield installers for (with the version that came with older versions of Microsoft Visual Studio). Read More
Displaying Google Calendar Events on a Club Web Site
Well, it was good while it lasted… but now the v2.0 API this is based on has been partially deprecated. I’ve started the job of migrating – but in the mean time I’ve done a quick fix described here. In this article I will explain how I present a list of events from Google Calendar Read More
Tags: Google Calendar, JavaScript, PHP, XML, XML Namespaces
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A Busy Summer
As you might work out I’ve had a bit of a busy summer and haven’t had much time to spend writing articles for my blog – which is frustrating because of the number of things I’ve wanted to write about. In this Post I’ll summarise it as a way of drawing a line under it Read More
Wiki Text Version 0.3 Released
After a month and a half I’ve now released an updated version of the Wiki Text plugin. This release adds Named Links, Horizontal Rules and Line Breaks. Download it here Try it here (and see how fast it is!) Find out more New Features The following new features have been added to this version of Read More
Tags: Convert, JavaScript, jQuery, JsDoc, Plugin, WIKI
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iPhone Tips and Tricks
I’ve had my iPhone 3GS just over a year now and I’ve learned a few useful tricks for using it which I’ve been shown by friends or discovered on the internet or by just messing around with it. Of course, I could have just read the manual – but where’s the fun in that? While Read More
Handling XML Elements with Namespaces in jQuery
The whole point to writing the Wiki Text jQuery plugin was so that I could use it on the Thistle Society web site to enhance the description text from Google Calendar events shown on the Events page. So, I was a bit irritated that it didn’t work when I tried it. Most of it turned Read More
Wiki Text Plugin for jQuery v0.2 Released
I’ve updated the plugin to resolve a couple of small errors and add a tiny bit more functionality. Download it here Try it here (and see how fast it is!) Find out more Changes The following changes have been made to this version of Wiki Text: List item text can now be wrapped by indenting Read More
Tags: Convert, JavaScript, jQuery, Plugin, WIKI
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Wiki Text Plugin for jQuery v0.1 Released
I would like to announce the first release of a jQuery plugin which converts Wiki text to HTML. Download it here Try it here (and see how fast it is!) Find out more Why a Wiki Text Plugin? As you can see by my recent articles about Google Calendar (and there’s more to come) I Read More
Error 310 (net::ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS): When Upgraded to WordPress 3.1
In case anyone else has the same problem, I saw this error when I upgraded my WordPress 3.0.1 installation to 3.1 using the automatic upgrade. The dashboard worked fine, but when I tried to look at the site itself the page wouldn’t load in IE 8 or Firefox 3.6. With Google Chrome I get the Read More