Our future with gadgets and technology
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…
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Support for older versions of Internet Explorer ends on 12 January 2016
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…
Zeal and Dash—Offline documentation browsers
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…
Trello now has a calendar view
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…
Using Trello from within Microsoft Outlook 2010
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…
Using XAMPP web server
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…
What developers think of Internet Explorer
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.…
Upgrade to TerminalFour Site Manager 7.0 planned
This summer the Web team are planning to upgrade the University’s enterprise Web content management system to TerminalFour Site Manager 7.0. One of the main features of Site Manager 7.0 is a completely redesigned…
My favourite Web developer add-ons for Firefox
Mozilla released Firefox 4.0 on Tuesday—it has already been downloaded 16,041,437 times; that’s about 92 downloads a second!— and there is a lot to commend it for: a clean look, that’s not too far away from both Google…
Internet Explorer from version 1.0 to 9.0
Since Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 was released Andy—you know! Andy!—wondered what it would be like to install every version of Microsoft’s Web browser starting at IE 1.0 under Windows 95 and working all the way up…