I found AutoIt a while ago but only just got around to doing anything useful with it. It’s a simplified environment for scripting in Windows, giving easy access to GUI widgets and a variety of reasonably powerful commands for building small Windows apps. What makes it especially useful is that you can compile your finished [...]
For some time now I’ve been watching with interest the emergence of portable applications. In this context, that means applications that can be installed and run entirely from a portable device, such as a USB memory stick. What’s astonishing is the speed with which this new breed of software has developed. Unsurprisingly the open source [...]
I didn’t want to have to put barriers in the way of anyone wanting to comment on my site, but today my hand was forced. After being hit with nearly three dozen spam comments in just a few hours, it has become clear that my site has been logged, somewhere, as a nice easy target. [...]
The observant among you will have noticed that this site carries a number of (hopefully, not overly obtrusive) advertising banners. These, if you look closely, are provided by Google’s Adsense service, which I have to say is remarkably painless to set up and manage, and works very well. It was, initially, a tough decision to [...]
So I finally got around to switching from the default WordPress theme! In the end I chose Marcos Sader’s equiX (page in Spanish), which I found here. I’ve made some minor changes and may still make more, but I think it looks pretty good as it stands.