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Technofog

Technofog (/tɛkˈnɒ/fɒɡ/) - the confluence of domain specific jargon, technical debt and knowledge gaps that negate sensible use of even…

Posted on: June 11, 2019
By: jammer
With: 0 Comments

Bookmarks Toolbar in FireFox Full-Screen Mode

This is a neat trick that I use in FireFox. I like to use FireFox in full-screen mode and I…

Posted on: May 13, 2016
By: jammer
With: 1 Comment

The Dangers of Self Build Web Site Platforms

This might at first appear like a form of scare mongering, or a thinly veiled sales pitch on my part…

Posted on: April 23, 2016
By: jammer
With: 0 Comments

Enable ASP.NET 4.5 On Windows 10 or Windows 8/8.1

By default IIS and ASP.NET aren't configured as part of a Windows setup (for obvious reasons) so developers are used…

Posted on: September 22, 2015
By: jammer
With: 11 Comments

View IISEXpress Hosted Sites On Your Local Network

This is a useful little tidbit of knowledge to have. Suppose you can browse to your new spanky site using…

Posted on: July 2, 2015
By: jammer
With: 0 Comments

Upgrading MVC4 to MVC5 and WebAPI1 to WebAPI2 – MEF – DotNetOpenAuth

Originally Written 20 June 2014 So, if you have found this blog post as you are going through this process…

Posted on: June 30, 2015
By: jammer
With: 2 Comments

Microsoft to Retire IE – Project Spartan

This is actually quite a momentus occasion! Hearing that Microsoft is going to retire the IE brand is something I've…

Posted on: March 22, 2015
By: jammer
With: 0 Comments

WordPress & IIS Permalinks

When hosting a Wordpress site under IIS you can run into some troubles when not getting things set-up exactly right.…

Posted on: March 7, 2015
By: jammer
With: 0 Comments

Shopify

So we've just had the pleasure of building my first Shopify application for a client project. Am I impressed? Very.…

Posted on: March 7, 2015
By: jammer
With: 0 Comments

Enabling CSS Hover Selector on Touch Enabled Devices

Most web developers and designer make use of this common CSS selector to help make pages easier to consume by…

Posted on: November 8, 2014
By: jammer
With: 0 Comments

D3 Limiting Pan & Zoom on Time Axis

Just cracked this problem and thought I'd share my fiddles!

Posted on: November 6, 2014
By: jammer
With: 0 Comments

Safari Web Inspector for iOS Debugging

Whilst I'm building web pages I make a lot of use of the development tools that modern browsers include. These…

Posted on: September 20, 2014
By: jammer
With: 0 Comments

Gmail & Thunderbird

So, Gmail access using a desktop client. Should be easy right? I ended up going round and round in circles…

Posted on: August 18, 2014
By: jammer
With: 0 Comments

SSL Certificate, FindByThumbprint and the Occultist Codepage

Have you ever ran into a situation where for some reason you cannot load an SSL certificate from the store?…

Posted on: July 10, 2014
By: jammer
With: 0 Comments

FireFox – Back on the Menu

So, I just updated to FireFox 30 and FireBug 2.0 ... So far, rock solid and none of the issues…

Posted on: June 17, 2014
By: jammer
With: 0 Comments

OpenSSL Hits The News Again

Good grief, this latest issue with OpenSSL (the library that keeps most of the internet encrypted and safe) is no…

Posted on: June 6, 2014
By: jammer
With: 0 Comments

CSS3 – Safe to Use?

Just found this amazing site going through CSS3 and how to safely implement or ignore certain features due to varying…

Posted on: June 4, 2014
By: jammer
With: 0 Comments

Google Chrome Auto Complete Hash! (autocomplete=”off”)

Hmm ... Not sure I like this one tiny bit Google. Google has decided that it's policy in regards to…

Posted on: June 1, 2014
By: jammer
With: 0 Comments

RIP FireFox (at least until v30 anyway).

That's it. I've stood by you and defended you but today was just it for me. I really don't know…

Posted on: May 30, 2014
By: jammer
With: 0 Comments

Firefox 29.0.1 Update

What on earth has happened. I'm getting script errors left right and center making my favourite browser extremely lumpy. Seems…

Posted on: May 16, 2014
By: jammer
With: 0 Comments