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I am the creator of Auction Nudge, Waymark and OGIS (Open Geographical Information System). I am an advocate for Open Source software!
Posted on 08/02/2010 under Computing
morehawesCommand ('Apple Key') + Shift + Y
Windows :
Ctrl + Shift + YThis will put the text back to sentence case or lower case (whatever it should be before it was being forced into all caps)
Posted on 04/02/2010 under Web Development
Since I have been working on updating this site recently I thought I would delve into the history books (not really that far back) and look at the previous versions of my website.
Although slightly pointless, I have spent a fair bit of time making these so it's nice to remember.
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Posted on 25/08/2009 under e-commerce
For a client recently I had to test osCommerce was accepting Nochex payments. Having never used it before I went through the lengthy and painful process of signing up for a Nochex account.
Well now I know why no one used Nochex. It's rubbish. It's the only thing that would make me recommend Paypal (and I hate Paypal) to anyone but at least their service does what it is supposed to with minimum fuss.
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Posted on 28/04/2009 under Web Development
At work recently I have been looking into usability principles and in particular our checkout procedure. This consists of streamlining the process by reducing the number of hoops the user must jump through whilst trying to build confidence in the customer.
Whilst booking flights to Australia the other day I was surprised that even the big boys can get it wrong! Although the checkout procedure was smooth - this screen was the first thing I saw after I clicked the "pay" button:
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Posted on 10/04/2009 under Web Development
I wanted a quick and easy way of adding Javascript and PHP error checking to my form elements. The benefit of this is that errors can be caught using Javascript before the form is submitted, but if JS is disabled in the users browser then the error is still caught using PHP.
The method I came up with to solve this is very simple and can be easily added to form elements with little extra code. The error checking is done by checking input against regular expressions.
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Posted on 26/02/2009 under eBay
I usually surf the web with my trusty Adblock Plus Firefox extension turned on, but after turning it off recently (I have been working on my works affiliate programme... it actually took me a few seconds to work out why things weren't appearing that should have been!) I got a bit of a shock when I went on to eBay. My usual eBay experience looks like this:
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