Archive for November, 2007

Browsershots

Thursday, November 22nd, 2007
Browsershots in IE7

Browsershots is a very useful tool if you’re a web developer, or even if you just have a web site. By submitting the address of a site, you can get back screenshots showing how the page is rendered across a wide range of web browsers and operating systems.

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Don’t Do This

Wednesday, November 14th, 2007

It should be basic common sense, but this issue is coming up again and again. Service X asks for your login details for service Y. Two things:

  • Don’t provide them
  • Walk away from service X

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VMWare vs Microsoft Virtual Server

Saturday, November 3rd, 2007

Just a few notes from personal experience rather than any attempt at a formal (or fair) comparison. I’ve been using VMWare Server fairly extensively for a while for various tasks, including quick and portable server provisioning, repeatable testing and general virtual machines for experimentation. Although I’ve had a few minor issues, in general it’s been a rock solid platform for me. Recently I was forced to use Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 for a particular task, and I’m not quite so keen on that.

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