My Weblog
Remote access to Visual Studio Development Server
If you wish to extend the ASP.NET Development Server's scope beyond the local host and allow remote access, such as I did when wanting to test a website against a work college's browser, then I've put together a rough guide that will hopefully be of some help... Read the full article...
Map of every McDonald's restaurant in the UK
The map shows the position of all 1197 McDonald's restaurants dotted around the United Kingdom. Roughly correlating with population density... Read the full article...
Adding an auxiliary input to my portable radio
Like many people I love listening to podcasts, so when I was finally given permission to bring a small personal radio into a previous job I figured that instead of listening to the radio I'd use it to play podcasts from my iPod... Read the full article...
Magento: Displaying custom attributes in e-mails
Recently whilst working on a project that used the Magento e-commerce Platform I needed to display custom attributes within transactional e-mails. After spending a day looking into the documentation and making the required changes I thought it would be well worth my time writing a brief entry detailing the steps I took. Read the full article...
Ring-pull bowl
After being inspired by Carlos Montana's "A La Lata" Candy Bowl and realising that I had a draw full of ring-pulls left over from a previous project I set about trying to make my own version of his ring-pull bowl. Read the full article...
Converting a shapefile's projection
Just recently whilst working on a project that utilized Google Maps I found myself needing to convert the projections for a set of ESRI Shapefiles that I'd acquired from the Ordnance Survey website... Read the full article...