OK this is possibly slightly beyond the scope of this site but it’s something that irks me, so I thought I’d write this post. If you’ve bought a new PC recently (as opposed to building one yourself) then it will almost certainly have come with a bunch of extra software already installed — eg. “free [...]
I already posted about AutoIt a few months back, but recently I’ve had cause to revisit this nifty little tool and have grown ever more impressed with it. So I thought the time had come to sing its praises a little more. To reiterate, AutoIt is at its heart a relatively simple scripting language for [...]
As a developer, the thing I probably prize above all else is an environment (both physical and virtual) where I can concentrate. Anything that distracts me from the task at hand is, at best, an annoyance: at worst it can cause a significant amount of wasted time while I try to recover my train of [...]
For seven years — until the middle of last year — I funded this web site, in its various forms, from my own pocket (in fact until very recently, the old ‘about’ page boasted about the lack of ads on the site — oops). OK, it doesn’t cost a huge amount — I use very [...]
I have a list of web sites that I keep tabs on for when I’m bored at work I want to stay up-to-date with the latest in tech news. I thought I’d share it with you. Ars Technica – I should probably read Digg or Slashdot more often, but I dislike the community baggage that [...]