Articles
- Portable Git for Windows: setting the $HOME environment variable to allow complete portability (including SSL keys and configuration for use with GitHub) Wednesday, 17 November 2010 08:17
There are a couple of issues which make Portable Git not quite as portable as it could be. In this article I’m going to explain the gotchas and walk you through creating a tweaked Portable Git for Windows install which is truly self contained.
- Why We Should Reinvent The Wheel (Occasionally) Monday, 12 April 2010 09:32
Some thoughts on the idiom “don't reinvent the wheel”, and why it shouldn't necessarily be a hard and fast rule.
- Creating a simple Stopwatch/Timer application with C# / Windows Forms Friday, 4 February 2011 09:26
Working on a project today, I came across the need for a simple stopwatch/timer which would keep track of the total elapsed time until it was reset. It turned out to be a little trickier than I first assumed, so I've posted my code here for the convenience of anyone else who needs to do the same thing.
- Running Google App Engine against Python 2.5 on Mac OSX 10.6 Snow Leopard Monday, 15 March 2010 03:01
How to point the Google App Engine Launcher to the supported Python version on Mac OSX 10.6 Snow Leopard.
- A quick pattern for writing categorised lists in ASP.NET Friday, 12 February 2010 09:46
A simple method of writing out a set of categorised lists in ASP.NET/C#.
- Building a simple Google Chrome extension Tuesday, 26 January 2010 08:41
In this example, I walk through creating a simple extension for Google Chrome which grabs the title, url and any selected text from the current page.