Articles about software, tools and technology.
Singing the praises of Opera’s new privacy features I have long been a fan of everyone’s favourite “other other other browser”, as The Register put it this week, Opera. Opera uses the same rendering engine as Google…
One million school children in the UK will soon be receiving their own computer without having to pay a single penny. The BBC, in collaboration with 29 partner organisations, has recently begun the delivery of its new…
No more IE bug hacks Last week I was speaking to a joint class of management and computer science students about our experiences of working with web standards through the years. Someone asked me what difference…
Let’s think about the future, and specifically about connected devices. Say you have a smart coffee maker – it’s tied into your alarm clock and knows to make your coffee just how you like it for when you get…
Support for older versions of Internet Explorer ends on 12 January 2016 Ah! Internet Explorer what a relationship we’ve had over the years, eh? Internet Exploder we often called you. The hours of frustration working…
Yesterday I came across a really useful application for web development which has already sped up my workflow when needing to look for documentation: Zeal. Zeal is available for Linux and Windows only, because it’s…
It’s no secret that we are big fans of Trello here. A fabulous feature they added in August—which may make the tool more useful to some people—is the addition of a calendar view. For as long as I can remember, Trello…
If you’ve been following this blog for a while then you’ll know that almost a year ago we moved our Agile board to Trello. It has been a great success. Last year the University also moved both our email and meeting…
As we all (should) know testing out software on live environments isn’t particularly sensible. For the last five years in the office, and longer at home, I’ve been running XAMPP from Apache Friends as a test server on…
I like this self-deprecating advert from Microsoft about Internet Explorer 9. Only today I was thinking how refreshing it is that I now don’t have to worry too much about testing webpages in Internet Explorer 9.…