Author Archives: Douglas Radburn

I mentioned yesterday that Google Chrome Extensions are in the here and now as opposed to a distant figure on the horizon. You’ll need to go grab the beta of Read More »

I recently uttered the words “If Chrome supported the web developer tool bar, I’d switch from Firefox”. Suppose it’s only a matter of time :) https://chrome.google.com/extensions

It won’t have escaped note that Google are updating their PageRank algorithm soon to take into account the speed of the web server that supplies the information. This throws up Read More »

Noticed an article over at Smarterware – http://smarterware.org/3898/namebench-benchmarks-dns-services – which introduces “NameBench” – a service for determining whether your DNS is services are quicker or slower than alternatives. Great thing Read More »

The words Google and DNS in the same sentence fill me with both excitement and apprehension. For those that don’t know, we all rely on DNS (Domain Name Servers) to Read More »

I mentioned this over at webdeveloper.com a while ago, and it’s still an issue that I’m running in to. Apache error_logs are showing quite a lot of “file does not Read More »

I’ve been doing some work with Google Maps recent, and a small part of it involves you clicking on the map to place a marker. Nothing too technical! However, IE8 Read More »

For some reason broadband from O2 and Orange both block SMTP access on the default port (25) to anything apart from their servers. You need to switch on the submission Read More »

Had a little bit of a falling out with my PC yesterday (perhaps a later post), but today, I found that I could no longer save for web in Photoshop Read More »

I don’t know about you, but data management can get a bit of a head-ache sometimes. At work we’re in a situation where our managed backups failed to back up Read More »