Part of me chuckled at the so called hack that affected Twitter today, not that something like this couldn’t affect any site (although given the simple and well known nature of the attack, it really shouldn’t have hit a site like Twitter) but it did remind me of the days in the early 00’s when this sort of thing was common place and the sort of problems we all had to face when coding sites in that era. What did strike me was whilst I did notice it (whilst random JavaScript tweets are always fun doing the same one over and over again is sort of labouring any joke) I wasn’t affected by it. Why...

The post was going to be initially titled, why Visual Studio 2008 is like a VW Bora, in reference to the current fun I’ve been having with my current Silverlight adventures. Unfortunately that particular episode will have to wait although I might give it as my Ignite presentation at our companies away day, watch this space as I’ll only give it if we don’t get enough other presenters. Anyway I digress, or should that be ramble, the current post has been sparked by two things, watching Doctor Who episodes with my daughter and fixing a simple connectivity problem in Silverlight. Sonic What? Just in...

As you can see I’m not one for short posts, but sometimes a great article needs to be pimped. Smashing Magazine has lots of those and whilst I’m mostly a Web Developer and not a Web Designer (I do have an iPhone so there may be hope for me) it’s good to keep an eye on the current design trends for web applications. Smashing, super, great, well not so great with IE6. Their current article “CSS Differences in Internet Explorer 6, 7 and 8” is a change from the normal rant at Microsoft fare, but aims at understanding all the differences that occur in the Microsoft browser segment of the market...