I’ve just posted the source code to an application I wrote 2½ years ago, whilst at the same time started using it again. The Reporting Services Job Monitor (RSJM) application was originally written to monitor long running reports in Microsoft…
If you’re using WordPress on 1and1.co.uk then you may find that WordPress isn’t quite as fluid as you’d been promised. Random 500 errors, plugins not upgrading, installing, deleting properly, that sort of thing. There is something you can do! With…
Programming can be an unhealthy occupation. It’s easy to spend the whole day stuck in your chair, staring at the screen. The more exciting or involving the work, the longer you sit, the more you stare, the worse your posture.…
If you maintain any sort of Twitter application or automatic functionality, you’d better have got sorted out with oAuth, because Twitter have just turned the lever on Basic Authentication…and it’s gone to Off! Effective immediately, the request limit for Basic…
I’ve just finished a new small project I started to try out Twitter’s oAuth API. The BBC produce an output of TV listings in XML format, which they make freely available at It’s hosted on a HTTP webpage, zipped…