Recently, in my day job, a request came in for a single page site. The requesters wanted to edit the content of the site without worrying about the style of the page. The solution we went with utilised our existing CMS system, but nevertheless I felt my developer itch needing…
I love the Galaxy S2, It is a really well built piece of kit. There are, however, a few little annoyances with it, some of which can be fixed if you don’t mind getting your hands dirty. Here’s what you need to do to get going. Root the phone (this…
You’ve gotta take your security seriously when using the web. Your actions on-line are being tracked and monitored constantly by various companies. This might not bother you, but it bothers me. Here’s a few plugins for Google Chrome that give me a little more piece of mind when I’m online…
Git is lovely. You know this. Here’s another bit of Gitty loveliness for you: Custom Config Parameters. The primary configuration file in Git is found in .git/config. In here are the configuration parameters for your repository. Git provides a tool to manage this file – git config. Handily this tool…
It’s not often I write reviews, but the new British Gas app for Android has prompted me to do so. The app offers a curious mix of genuinely clever ideas and some glaring oversights. It’s a beta release, so I’m writing this mainly to help the development team on their…
I don’t often cross post between blogs, but for this one I’ll make an exception. I keep a blog about authentication and authorisation as part of my day job looking after the identity management system at De Montfort University. I recently wrote about how most passwords we use are easy…
This article from NetTuts explains the basics of configuring the command prompt on Linux and Mac. It includes the great idea of displaying the current Git branch in the prompt. However, their method makes use of the vcprompt package, which has to be compiled and installed. A worthwhile exercise, but…
I’ve just got myself a shiny new Samsung Galaxy S2. I’m not going to write a big old review of the whole thing here, there’s plenty of others elsewhere. Ubuntu users may have difficulty mounting the phone via USB. Getting ugly errors like this… “Unable to mount SAMSUNG_Android Error initialising…
Commonly, programs can be configured by passing arguments on the command line.