December 2011
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A Complete Development Server in 5 Minutes
Years ago, Thoughtworks developed Buildix, a combined download for those who just wanted a quick way to install a standard development server stack. Their main reason for doing it was to provide a quick way to create a Continuous Integration server but, since it also bundled OS, SVN Server and bug tracking, it was also useful to the solo developer or small development team.
Unfortunately they...
October 2010
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New MobileMe Calendar - Fixing Disappearing...
Today, Apple released an upgrade to the MobileMe Calendar. The upgrade went fine and afterwards I could see all of my data when browsing to the MobileMe website directly. However it had all (apart from Birthdays!) disappeared from the iCal app on my Macs and from my iPhone calendar. This was despite having up-to-date software on all devices.
Investigating further, I found that the new version...
April 2009
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Fixing JPG and PNG Colour Matching in Safari
When styling a website, one of the main techniques is to match the CSS colour codes to the colours in the images to blend sections together seamlessly. But on a couple of sites recently I have found that the sites looked perfect in IE and Firefox, but there were mismatches when viewed on Safari on my Mac.
The Problem
Investigating further, I found that if I changed the Monitor Colour Profile...
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Resolving Eclipse's "No Repository Found" Error
I have encountered a recurring problem with Eclipse 3.4. When performing an update of application components it fails during the download, and in the error it details “No Repository Found” for one or more (frequently a large number) of eclipse update site URLs.
I originally found the workaround solution several months ago, in the Eclipse bug tracker, and each time recurs I have to...