With new Google Reader Play: https://www.google.com/reader/play you can browse a slideshow of recommended feed items tailored to your Google reader profile in a slideshow format. Very slick and easy to use give it a try for yourself! Related posts: QR Codes Are Great! Recently I saw a symbol on the side of the...

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Google Reader Play: Stumbleupon for feeds

Another really useful item from Oleg Burlaca. AreoSQL is a free web based database management solution which, given some development could be a decent replacement for the awful phpMyAdmin.

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AeroSQL an alternative to phpMyAdmin

I don't know if this is just my account, but from the point that Google Buzz got integrated with my Gmail Account (6 days ago or so) Gmail hadn't collected any email from the main pop accounts I have it setup to retrieve from. I've just forced a collection now and hopefully it'll all work going forwards, but I wonder if anyone else out there reading my blog has seen something similar... Related posts: QR Codes Are Great! Recently I saw a symbol on the side of the...

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Buzz in Gmail Potential Issue

It’s been live for a couple of weeks now, although I haven’t done much promotion of it, so here is word of an “official” announcement of my new portfolio site. Please take a look around and if you have any constructive criticism, feedback or advice, feel free to let me know through the usual channels… So without further ado, I pronounce www.jamestitcumb.com officially open!

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Announcing My New Website

Well this evening Facebook have revealed what PHP developers globally have been speculating about and revealed their big secret . And boy, this could really change the landscape of PHP as we know it. I’m a great fan of compiling PHP for one reason or another, but I’ve never seen it reliably work.

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Very Exciting – HipHop by Facebook

I haven’t done a “personal” update for some time now, so I thought I’d briefly brush over our recent lives. The photo you can see on the left is the current state of our new house that is being built in the new Dickens Quarter development in Portsmouth

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New House & Growing Freyja

I had an interesting argument earlier today. One of our websites is being redesigned at the moment, and the page layout has the logo and company name at the top, and below the menu is a subtitle

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Semantic Markup – What should h1 Be?

If you use an unsigned MySQL int to count seconds you can count up to roughly 136 years before the field is full On another note I also got my Google Wave invite today, so if anyone wants to connect just add chrisjohndean@googlewave.com to your list! Related posts: Using Linux Saves Money And Helps Save The Planet Recently I bought a new cheap Toshiba laptop which came... Google storage update: More space for your photos and email No google storage team, thank you..

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This won’t have been the first time I’ve written about degrees … But I recently noticed a job posting for a server-side developer at Headscape , and in just the third sentence it already got my back up: We are looking for a graduate who is passionate about the web This sort of thing in job postings really annoy me. The notion that a degree makes a person better than someone with 3+ years of experience to me is a very narrow-minded way of thinking

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Job Requirements

Olark is a very neat new service from as US company called Habla, Inc. that lets you integrate a live chat box on your website directly with one of a number of common Instant Messaging clients.

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