What is Pub Sub Hubbub? Well, apart from being a badly named service, it is basically a hub that sits between a server (publisher) and it’s feed users (subscribers). The server talks to Pub Sub Hubbub when content is updated …
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Fifa 10
Just a quick note to say Asda are doing Fifa 10 for £26.71 from midnight (02 oct 09) for 24 hours, and allegedly Tesco will be doing it for £29.99 until the end of Sunday! Go save some money!
Websites don’t like customers returning stuff… shocker.
It’s being reported in the media today that back in May, authorities, such as trading standards departments investigated 369 websites from across the EU in relation to how forthcoming websites were with regard to Consumer Law. This investigation related to …
IE8, Javascript includes & Apache Error Logs
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 exist” errors for pages using rewrites. For example, you could …
With SkyBB? Can’t get online with your PS3?
It appears Sky BB’s updates to it’s services over the past few weeks have caused alot of PS3 interweb fans quite alot of anguish. If you’re getting a DNS error when trying to connect to the PSN, then you might …
Oh great, IE8 has broken pin placement in Google Maps API…
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 (rc1 atleast) doesn’t place the pin where you click it. …
M$!
For those of you looking to blame Microsoft for the current econimic climate, here is the proof!
O2/Orange SMTP Problems
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 port on your server 587 and connect using that instead!
Photoshop failing to save to web
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 (CS2). I was getting the following error “Could not complete …
Freeagent External H/D vs. Linux
I had a weird problem at work (going back quite a while now as I haven’t touched this block in months/years!). We have a 750gb Freeagent Pro External Hard Drive (USB) which was connected and mounted correctly on our linux …