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For a while I've had a number of subversion repositories on Dreamhost for source control. Much credit to Dreamhost, it's a doddle to setup and I've never had any reliability issues. The problem with having a remote SVN though is that it's a bit slow. So, as most of my development is done in the office, I decided to move the repositories to a local server.

I’m a game freak. I love games, especially arcade games. I used to spend some of my time as a kid wasting/spending 10p’s on Defender, Tempest and sometimes Pacman. About five years ago (it could be longer) I discovered MAME and recently I’ve been speaking to people who’ve never heard of it, so I thought I’d write a quick get started guide.

It’s actually very easy to convert MIDI files to the SMAF format. Firstly you need to download a free piece of software from Yamaha called SMAF Sound Decorator.

OK, so here it is. Those loving providers of polyphonic ringtones have been stripping us of our money for too long. So I’m going to show you in one very simple move how to find pretty much any midi polyphonic file, in another post I’ll tell you how to convert it into a SMAF for all of those lovely Yamaha powered cells.

I could probably write a small book on the virtues of jQuery and how it’s changed my JavaScript programming life and actually made it enjoyable…. however, let’s cut the crap and talk plugins!

In our first look at jQuery we established that we could use JQuery to “fix” some of the discrepancies of certain browsers handling of CSS. We used jQuery to simply append (or prepend) a little bit of information inside of a tag enabling us to make site wide changes to certain visual cues very quickly and simply.

I’m a bit funny when it comes to semantic markup. I really don’t like putting visual cues into the markup that I may want to change later. You know those little symbols that we put at the end or beginning of a sentence, that we sometimes no longer use as literary symbols.