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Heroku is a development hero

Every now and again I need to stretch my brain, remember that I once used to actually code applications and make sure that I still understand the many processes involved in creating an application...

PayPal… you may never void a transaction

It pains me to blog about the same topic straight after a previous post but, I just couldn't let this one go.

Paypal VISA payments not working?

We're having some serious issues with the Paypal standard payment. It works perfectly for all payments except for VISA credit cards.

PHP MD5 not the same as .NET MD5

I'm in the process of writing the API for our fancy new web management platform (I think you'll like it, watch this space).

A tiny, weeny Google Mail tip…

The other day my friend saw me using Google Mail and was intrigued by some subtle but noticeable differences in my layout and functionality compared to that which he'd experienced through his own use of Google's webmail interface.

jQuery AJAX username availability lookup

One of the key design goals of our new Simple Web Management platform is ease of use. We want to deliver a joyous user experience.

Source code of Random Friend Photo

A while ago now I wrote a very simple Facebook application to show a random photo from one of your friends. It was the facebook app I built and was really only to play around with their framework.

Twitter as a way to generate nice passwords

We're working on an exciting new web based management interface at the moment which we hope is going to make the lives of web developers and designers a lot easier. I can't say too much about it now but I just wanted to quickly post about an interesting use I've found for Twitter.

My Back end is bigger than your back end

I posted a very simple question to a web development/designer mailing list today. We've got a new product in development and I thought that I'd do a little research on what UI's people liked the best from the current crop of online applications...

Has Safari 3.1 broken Gmail?

The Safari 3.1 update has just landed on my Macbook pro. It's quicker, more compatible, has Javascript that seems to work more consistently, but Gmail has gone decidedly odd.

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