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Private Beta Update

Friday, May 5th, 2006

For those unlucky buggers who are on the private beta, we have yet another download for them. It's really important to read the release notes and that's why I'm blogging this as no-one ever seems to read the README.    ?????? do not use this beta on production data. I'm serious ...

Making It Purty: a user interface gripe

Friday, May 5th, 2006

We're implementing some user-interface gubbins tonight and we've bumped into one of those things that remind you were dealing with a work in progress and not the be-all and end-all of Integrated Development Environments. I'm not a coder so it just annoys me. The annoyance? I like rounded text fields for ...

Apologies for feed spam

Tuesday, May 2nd, 2006

I moved the blog to a new server (one which actually allows me to run PostgreSQL), and this may well cause a feed refresh for people (it did for me). Apologies for that. As MJ said, we had the long weekend off—it's been more like two weeks off for me ...

Ch-ch-ch-changes…

Sunday, April 30th, 2006

Still don't know what I was waiting for And my time was running wild A million dead-end streets and Every time I thought I'd got it made It seemed the taste was not so sweet So I turned myself to face me But I've never caught a glimpse. - Bowie, David This has been a week of changes ...

The incredible disappearing, reappearing developer

Monday, April 24th, 2006

You may have noticed I've not posted anything to our blog for the past couple of weeks. Unfortunately, my wife's grandmother died about two weeks ago, and we've spent the intervening time preparing for a trip back to the UK (Yorkshire) for the funeral. Given that we'd already planned a ...