Archive for the ‘Web’ Category
Last.fm Loved Tracks RSS Feed
Ever wondered why last.fm don’t provide an RSS feed of your loved tracks? Me too. So using the freely available audioscrobbler web services i’ve created a very basic last.fm loved tracks feed which. The main reason for doing so was to update twitter with my loved tracks via twitterfeed. The feed can be called with […]
Publish / Subscribe With jQuery
With a view to writing a jQuery UI integrated with the offline functionality of Google Gears i’ve been toying with some code to poll for network connection status using jQuery.
The Network Detection Object
The basic premise is very simple. We create an instance of a network detection object which will poll a URL at regular intervals. […]
Tips for Using JQuery with ASP.NET Ajax
Dave Ward has put together an excellent and extensive post on his experiences integrating jQuery with ASP.NET
There are the usual number of pitfalls you’d expect when integrating [insert widely-used microsoft technology here] with [insert useful open source technology here]
Want to consume a JSON Web Service with jQuery? Sounds simple. That’s kinda the point of JSON […]
Microsoft SQL Server Vs MySQL
A collegaue of mine - a VB developer - sent me a link to this page on the Microsoft website which attempts to comapre MySQL to their own SQL Server by drawing some.. shall we say creative comparisons.
By no means is the article completely factually inaccurately. There are many valid points which no one […]
imagettfbbox() Could not find/open font
This evening I noticed a problem with the script which generates the image headings for this site. It had stopped working. I hadn’t noticed until now because the process caches all previously generated images and as such it hadn’t actually run for a while.
The error
imagettfbbox() [function.imagettfbbox]: Could not find/open font
The specified font file existed and […]
