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A comparison of online wireframing / prototyping tools

Submitted by tom on Mon, 21/12/2009 - 14:47

Wireframing is an important aspect of web development. A decent wireframe developed at the start of a project can really help to reduce development times further down the road. Read more »

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Case Study : Concern Fast

Submitted by tom on Wed, 11/11/2009 - 15:11

Each year, thousands of people around Ireland join Concern Worldwide in the Concern Fast. During the Fast, people give up food for 24 hours and raise as much money as they can for some of the world’s poorest people. Read more »

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BT: unlimited != unlimited

Submitted by tom on Thu, 19/02/2009 - 16:19

I have an 'unlimited' broadband connection from BT. So I used it to download some of my music off a server that I have in England, at the same time I was in the process of rebuilding a machine and so I had to download a lot of (free) software. I downloaded a few gigabytes, and now BT have throttled my connection, with an estimation of it being back to speed in 17 days time. Read more »

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Mirror an svn repository with svnsync

Submitted by tom on Sun, 07/12/2008 - 18:49

If you like to keep all your work under svn source control, you're probably going to also want to keep a backup of your svn repositories in case of a hardware failure or some other catastrophic event. svn comes with a utility to help you do this - svnsync, which we can use to keep a real-time, read only backup of our svn repositories. Read more »

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Nginx proxy to Apache - access remote host IP address using mod_praf

Submitted by tom on Sat, 23/08/2008 - 07:48

These days it i getting more and more common for people to use a lightweight webserver such as lighttpd or nginx as a frontend, and proxy to an Apache backend if they really need to. Read more »

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