http://www.proverbialmonkey.co.uk Just another WordPress weblog Sun, 14 Sep 2008 20:16:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Nobody does beta's quite like Google, that's a fact. Due to an error with their comic being accidentally released early, Google has quickly released Google Chrome. They may have rushed it but I can honestly say it is one of the best and most polished beta's I have ever looked at. Rendering ... http://www.proverbialmonkey.co.uk/redefining-beta/ If you've missed the lastest fuss about Adaptive Paths latest product concept for Mozilla then, where have you been? Ok if you missed it here's part 1 of 4. Aurora (Part 1) from Adaptive Path on Vimeo. Well, wow. Quite mind blowing stuff. It has generated a lot of comments which some I ... http://www.proverbialmonkey.co.uk/aurora-is-it-the-future/ For a very long time I've been using Netvibes as my online feed reader, it really is a beautiful piece of software but this beauty can only go so far. My main problems with it is the sheer amount of feeds I have, I don't read them all(I know) but having some figures on what ... http://www.proverbialmonkey.co.uk/feed-reading/ OK, this is really starting to annoy the hell out of me. learning a new language and framework is hard enough with out a sodding NDA blocking any conversation on the subject and a host of much needed books. You've got to question Apple's motives for continuing with the NDA even after ... http://www.proverbialmonkey.co.uk/iphone-nda/ Well I've just downloaded the wordpress app for the iPhone 2.0 and o can honestly say so far(using it right now) I have not experienced any crashes or bugs in getting it hooked up to this blog. First impressions Well so far I haven't seen any formating options are there any? I ... http://www.proverbialmonkey.co.uk/wordpress-app-for-iphone-20/ I'm a huge fan of the boagworld podcast. Paul recently took a month off of everything online and also brought the site down for just over a week to implement a new design Well it's back with a great rural design and the new podcast should be live this evening or tomorrow ... http://www.proverbialmonkey.co.uk/boags-back/ I have recently been revamping a feedback mechanism which was built using vbscript, seen as I work on an intranet we were using the now function to take a snapshot of the time that the user made an entry. As usual the JavaScript equivalent doesn't work exactly the same, I didn't ... http://www.proverbialmonkey.co.uk/recreating-the-vbscript-now-function-in-javascript/ Looking at what Live Mesh it's very easy to be wooed by what it promises, but is that strictly true? BBC News has quite rightly run a story about the questions that every developer is asking themselves, is it really going to be totally open? Just looking at Microsoft's (or Micro$oft as ... http://www.proverbialmonkey.co.uk/open-mesh/ I've finally managed to put off playing world of warcraft, PES 08, Forza 2, Mario Strikers (In fact just insert any Wii, Xbox 360 or PC game) long enough to finish this sites design. I bought leopard on Friday which seems to have helped give me a little kick up the ... http://www.proverbialmonkey.co.uk/finally-got-the-new-design-live/ It seems like it has been forever since I last made a post. Over 2 months to be precise. Well just a quick note to say that I've been working on a re-design which should be landing within 2 weeks. I also have a information site in the pipeline which I ... http://www.proverbialmonkey.co.uk/been-busy/