Your iPhone & its dock: Disabling the mute feature
I recently purchased a dock for my iPhone from a guy on Ebay. It’s not an official Apple product, because $5 is a far better price than the $29 Apple wants for a piece of plastic. All-in-all, its a...
View ArticleBuying a Dremel in South Africa
I’d been wanting to get myself a Dremel rotary tool for ages, but only started looking into it recently. Immediately, I was overwhelmed by the variety of options thrown at me – do I get the tool by...
View ArticleAnnouncing Manta
It’s taken much too long, but I’ve finally created an online project for Manta, which until recently didn’t even have an official name. Manta is an open source .NET library that currently features a...
View ArticleGetting to the (Reparse) Point: Notes
These are the links, notes and resources for my presentation Getting to the (Reparse) Point, which I’ll be giving at Microsoft Devs4Devs on Saturday, 20 August 2011 at 09:30. Code Manta, my open source...
View ArticleThe Legend of FinkyPieheimer@zoobatz.com
Occasionally, you want a quick disposable email address for registering on suspicious websites, or in my case, for testing your own website’s registration system. While there are several options, I use...
View ArticleGmail From Sorter 1.4 released
I recently noticed that my Gmail From Sorter Greasemonkey script stopped working, but as usual “out of sight, out of mind”; having sent the email, I promptly forgot about the problem. I was reminded...
View ArticleGmail From Sorter 1.6 unleashed
Having released Gmail From Sorter 1.4 the other day, I continued fiddling with it based Robert’s feedback. One thing I hadn’t realized was that, as a user of Google Multiple Sign-In, the URLs I see...
View ArticleHow to download .NET Reflector 6 for free
If you like, you can skip the introduction and jump to Downloading .NET Reflector. A brief history of .NET Reflector In the beginning In case you somehow missed it, .NET Reflector is a class browser,...
View ArticleOn silly Java mistakes
So you’re getting started with your Java EE web project and you’re using JPA, annotations, dependency injection, all that good stuff. Except when you launch your awesome web app, your Glassfish 3...
View ArticleFixing wadl2java
On a recent project, I was given a WADL file and wanted a way to quickly knock out some client code for calling the web service described by the file. I quickly came across two tools that, annoyingly,...
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