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  1. The Tube (London Underground) gets free WiFi from this summer! tfl.gov.uk/corporate/medi… 2:33 AM Jun 1st via web
  2. Chrome not supported on Facebook! Always seems fine to me but look at the non support page: facebook.com/unsupportedbro… 2:37 AM May 30th via web
  3. I thought the Facebook API was difficult until I started integrating VKontakte.. Basically the same but the documentation is in Russian 7:04 AM May 29th via web
  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 8:12 AM May 25th via web in reply to andymilligan
  5. Ah, playing with Omniture tracking codes... Didn't think I'd be doing that again. Joy.. 3:19 AM May 24th via web
  6. Script to back up SQL Azure database into blob storage nightly britishdeveloper.co.uk/2012/05/export… via @britishdev 7:12 AM May 22nd via Tweet Button
  7. Giving @SendGrid a go for my Azure emailing needs 4:01 AM May 21st via web
  8. combres.codeplex.com is awesome for minifing, combining and compressing CSS and JavaScript #aspnet May be redundant with MVC4 mind.. 7:08 AM May 17th via web
  9. Bing sounds like it might be awesome... soon... microsoft.com/en-us/news/fea… 1:47 AM May 15th via Tweet Button
  10. Set maxlength on an HTML textarea britishdeveloper.co.uk/2012/05/set-ma… via @britishdev #aspnet #web 6:07 AM May 10th via Tweet Button
  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 4:30 AM May 9th via web
  12. @theplastictoy Having the same issue. One #azure DB exported fine but other is perpetually 'Pending'. What was your outcome? 9:29 AM May 4th via web in reply to theplastictoy
  13. Mobile UI patterns: mobile-patterns.com 7:06 AM May 3rd via web
  14. Monday morning and IntelliSense doesn't work. Uh oh... 2:44 AM Apr 30th via web
  15. STOP THE PRESS: Bing just found what I wanted better than Google 1:14 AM Apr 25th via web
  16. Do the French seriously park like this?! Interesting campaign too: autoblog.com/2012/04/20/for… 6:37 AM Apr 23rd via web
  17. @Pheedbak Well done! Bed early tonight... 2:34 PM Apr 22nd via web in reply to Pheedbak
  18. jQuery - Don't use bind() and definitely don't use live() britishdeveloper.co.uk/2012/04/jquery… 8:41 AM Apr 18th via Tweet Button
  19. Resize your browser to a select size easily with this: resizemybrowser.com 3:11 AM Apr 17th via web
  • Name Colin Farr
  • Location London
  • Web http://www.britis...
  • Bio Microsoft Azure technical consultant. Software Architect and Developer of ASP.NET MVC C# EF Azure and SQL
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