With Spotify releasing their browser player a while go, all of the major streaming services now have web-based applications. While this is good, I do a lot of work within the browser during the day and have a habit of killing groups of tabs or the browser itself reasonably often. Then there’s a moment of […]
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Adding Business Layer Caching Using Castle Windsor AOP
Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP) is a programming paradigm that allows separation of cross-cutting concerns. But you probably already knew that if you’re reading this. If not, go have a read at the Wikipedia page on AOP or the introduction page on the Castle Project site. The Problem If we have an existing application to which […]
Build a Media Centre PC for £129.86
Building a media centre PC for your living room doesn’t need to cost a fortune. With new low power processors with onboard graphics, you can put together a system capable of playing 1080p videos with DTS sound and still get change from £130. I’ve split the components into two categories – Core and Additional. You […]
Create a Windows 8 Dual Boot on a Windows 7 Machine
I’ve been really impressed with what I’ve seen of Windows 8. I seem to be in the minority but the tile layout, type to search and (almost) instant-on seem like a huge step forward to me. Also, the ability to create desktop apps using HTML5 and JavaScript is set to open up app development to […]
Force your Raspberry Pi to mount an external USB drive every time it starts up
I spent a while figuring this out about a month ago with a Linux expert colleague (hi, Caz!) but didn’t write any of it down because it was going to be “fixed in the next release of Raspbmc”. I’m still getting the issue with the latest release so thought I’d best document the steps for […]
Enabling bundling and minification support in a .NET 4 application
.NET 4.5 is going to offer support for bundling and minifying content on the server before passing that down to the client. If you want detailed information on what this is, go and read Scott Gu’s blog post about the features. In a nutshell, bundling is combining several files into one combined file and minification […]
Publishing a Node.js Express App to Windows Azure
Windows Azure has really come on in the past few months. With the new management dashboard, support for other web technologies (even horrible ones like PHP) and removal of Silverlight, it’s actually become a pleasure to use. One of the new supported technologies is Node.js. I’ll not go into the reasons for using Node again […]
Two step authentication in Facebook – go do this now
Do you have anything on Facebook that you wouldn’t want anyone hacking into – photos, private messages, your endless list of Paolo Nutini likes? If you’re nodding your head vigorously just now, it’s time to ramp up the security of your Facebook login. Two step authentication Two step authentication is a mechanism where, if you […]
Getting Sublime Text 2 to Compile CoffeeScript on Windows 7
Okay, this is maybe a bit niche but I might as well document this for whoever else comes across it. Sublime Text 2 is a pretty nice text/code editor in the same style as TextMate for Mac. CoffeeScript is a reduced syntax for writing JavaScript code. Getting them to work together isn’t all that straightforward but is possible. […]