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Tag: web applications
Be Careful $with Laravel
Following a little surprise on a Laravel project I was developing, I figured best to write a short post about it. Make sure to be very careful when you use the $with property in your models. Whilst this can be a helpful property – it allows the model to always eager load a relationship or […]
LinkedIn – Always finding different ways to send spam
Despite turning off all notifications from LinkedIn last week, I still got an email today entitled “Jobs you may be interested in”.
A lost web
Anil Dash’s recent post, “The web we lost”, is a great round-up of where we came from on the web and some possible failings in the web today.
Silverlight DRM error on LoveFilm or Netflix
Love Film not working? Netflix giving a DRM error N8156-6003? It’s a weird issue with Silverlight and here’s how to fix it.
Commercial recommendations
I was just updating a few things over on the Facebook page I’ve created for this blog and thought I’d see what sort of page recommendations they had for me.
A very very strange collection altogether.
Google Docs finally gets custom styles
Google have rolled out an update to Google Docs which finally grants the user the ability to apply custom styles to headings.
It may not sound like much, but this is an important feature which brings Google Docs a step closer to being a proper word processor replacement.
All so you can poke someone
I recently read this entry regarding time, leap seconds and how it messes with technology on the Google Blog. It’s quite a technical post but I think you should read it all. It doesn’t really matter that it’s written by Google, it was just a handy example – it could easily be from anyone that […]
Gmail adds new people widget, doesn’t screw over Rapportive.
It appeared that Rapportive had their features killed by a Gmail update, which brings new functionality to the default right column in gmail, but Rahul Vohra, CEO of Rapportive, cleared that up pretty quickly!
Xmarks or LastPass deleted my passwords?
It appears that all my saved passwords in Firefox have disappeared. I don’t know why, but the current prime suspect is the Xmarks plugin which looks like it was aiming to shift me over to using LastPass.
