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hCard Photo’s
Posted by Richard Cooper | Filed under Random
We recently soft launched a minor site for friend, with an hCard enhanced contact page and a link to transform the hCard into a vCard using the http://technorati.com/contacts/ web-service. The “client” was over the moon, but asked if it was possible to include their logo on the vCard that was produced. Now I know from [...]
Tags: #fowd09
Why free software is worth what you pay for it…
Posted by Richard Cooper | Filed under Coding, Random
We have recently swapped from running our virtual machines in VMWare to Sun’s Virtual Box. The performance of virtual box is equal if not better than VMWare, and we will save quite a bit of money on licenses, as all our users would require the workstation version of VMWare. All was well with this plan [...]
Tags: Open Source, rant, Software.
My Tool Chain…
Posted by Richard Cooper | Filed under Random
As a developer I must use one of the strangest tool chains around as I combine FOSS and Microsoft tools freely. For my Platform I use something I like to call VIMP.NET – running Vista, IIS7, MySQL, Python and .NET. I’m using Vista Ultimate with the additional “Subsystem for UNIX-based Applications (SUA)” installed to give [...]
Tags: development, tools