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britishdev

  1. The Tube (London Underground) gets free WiFi from this summer! tfl.gov.uk/corporate/medi…
  2. Chrome not supported on Facebook! Always seems fine to me but look at the non support page: facebook.com/unsupportedbro…
  3. I thought the Facebook API was difficult until I started integrating VKontakte.. Basically the same but the documentation is in Russian
  4. @andymilligan True. Good idea. Writing only occurs daytime in house so not too fussed for me but worth a note on my post I think. Thanks
  5. Ah, playing with Omniture tracking codes... Didn't think I'd be doing that again. Joy..
  6. Script to back up SQL Azure database into blob storage nightly britishdeveloper.co.uk/2012/05/export… via @britishdev
  7. Giving @SendGrid a go for my Azure emailing needs
  8. combres.codeplex.com is awesome for minifing, combining and compressing CSS and JavaScript #aspnet May be redundant with MVC4 mind..
  9. Bing sounds like it might be awesome... soon... microsoft.com/en-us/news/fea…
  10. Set maxlength on an HTML textarea britishdeveloper.co.uk/2012/05/set-ma… via @britishdev #aspnet #web
  11. Chrome extension to fake your user-agent to be something it's not chrome.google.com/webstore/detai… test mobile device handling in your #aspnet app
  12. @theplastictoy Having the same issue. One #azure DB exported fine but other is perpetually 'Pending'. What was your outcome?
  13. Mobile UI patterns: mobile-patterns.com
  14. Monday morning and IntelliSense doesn't work. Uh oh...
  15. STOP THE PRESS: Bing just found what I wanted better than Google
  16. Do the French seriously park like this?! Interesting campaign too: autoblog.com/2012/04/20/for…
  17. @Pheedbak Well done! Bed early tonight...
  18. jQuery - Don't use bind() and definitely don't use live() britishdeveloper.co.uk/2012/04/jquery…
  19. Resize your browser to a select size easily with this: resizemybrowser.com