Interactive Linear Gradient Explorer

By On January 4, 2013 · 2 Comments

Linear Gradients in Flex are very powerful, but it’s not necessarily easy to know what values to use. This interactive tool allows you to experiment with adding and configuring as many Gradient Entries as you need so that you can see the effect immediately.

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Isocra Website Refresh

By On December 21, 2012 · Leave a Comment

We’ve finally gone live with a long overdue refresh on a brand new server with 34sp. The custom theme that we were using just didn’t cut the mustard any more so we’ve taken the plunge and we are using a proper customisable theme. Let us know if we’ve broken something [...]

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Exciting times ahead

By On April 9, 2010 · Leave a Comment

I’ve been musing about the future, so forgive me for a bit of crystal ball gazing.

For years we’ve been building complex software systems, confidence that the underlying hardware was getting quicker and quicker courtesy of

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Printer Queue on Asus EEE PC and Linux

By On April 27, 2009 · 2 Comments

My son has an Asus EEE PC and it’s great for what he needs. He can easily carry it around and it has all the power he needs for doing his homework.

The only issue we’ve had is that our HP2605DN network printer keeps getting assigned a different IP address when we occasionally restart the [...]

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MacBook, MissingSync and Vodafone 3G USB stick

By On January 10, 2009 · 1 Comment

I’ve been using a MacBook for a couple of years now and really like. However, one of the downsides is that I can’t simply sync with my HTC TyTn II mobile running Windows Mobile 6 in the same way that you can with a PC running Windows.

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Review: Entourage 2008 vs Apple Mail

By On June 6, 2008 · 9 Comments

I used Entourage 2004 on my MacBook for about a year and then, in January, I upgraded to Entourage 2008. There were a couple of things I found frustrating about Entourage (especially compared with Outlook 2000 on the PC) such as the inability to easily put tables into HTML emails. But I persevered until last [...]

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Image buttons made simple

By On June 5, 2008 · 8 Comments

I read a blog post recently showing how to create a button with an image and text. The button looked very simple and very nice to look at, but the HTML was more complicated than I thought it needed to be.

There is a move now to make the HTML of a document as simple [...]

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Groovy Interchange Format?

By On April 29, 2008 · 6 Comments

Is Groovy a good way to pass complex data from one server to another (instead of JSON or XML)?

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JasperException: Failed to load or instantiate TagExtraInfo

By On March 26, 2008 · 7 Comments

org.apache.jasper.JasperException: Failed to load or instantiate TagExtraInfo class

(I had to shorten the article title to fit!)

I’ve just had a problem when I’ve taken a web application from my local Tomcat 5.5 development server (where it worked fine) and uploaded it onto a public server (also using Tomcat 5.5).

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Table Drag and Drop JQuery plugin

By On February 20, 2008 · 880 Comments

I’ve been using JQuery for a while now and really agree with its tag line that it’s the “The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library”. We’ve also got this code for dragging and dropping table rows that has proved very popular, so it seemed natural to combine the two and wrap [...]

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