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Dave Verwer

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• Access Manager

  Posted: 14 Dec 2005 at 05:48 by Dave

  I just received an e-mail from Richard Cleaver following up on the VistaDB offer and my comments about it. Richard writes a password management utility called Access Manager and is doing an offer that if you blog about any aspect of security best practice and include a link to him then you get a fr

• WP-Mint v1.2

  Posted: 27 Nov 2005 at 12:54 by Dave

  I have finally got around to upgrading the WP-Mint plug-in for integrating a WordPress theme with Mint too! Download WP-Mint v1.2 Sorry for the delay in getting a compatible release of this up.

• Windows Update in FireFox

  Posted: 26 Nov 2005 at 11:09 by Dave

  This has to be the extension that some people might have been waiting for to make that 100% switch to FireFox. I absolutely could not switch back from FireFox to IE at the moment but there are still sites that do not work in FF and so you have to switch occasionally. Up until now, I [...]

• Scott Adams is Blogging

  Posted: 01 Nov 2005 at 21:12 by Dave

  I know I am late with this one but Scott Adams is blogging!! and to me that is worth a meme just because its Scott Adams (the Dilbert guy, for those wondering). Maybe it’s the way I was raised, but I find that I get mad about all the wrong things. For example, when I hear [...]

• Wait to avoid Spyware? Simple, just pirate your music!

  Posted: 01 Nov 2005 at 19:55 by Dave

  Yes you read it right, If you put certain Sony copy protected audio CD’s into your PC’s CD/DVD drive they will automatically patch your operating system. This article on how Sony are putting RootKits on systems to force on DRM software that prevents the CD being copied is shocking, I wo

• CSS Reboot - Launched

  Posted: 31 Oct 2005 at 21:31 by Dave

  I am very glad I finished this at the weekend so that all I had to do tonight was set the theme live and upload my after screenshot to the CSS Reboot site because I am currently feeling like death warmed up due to a bug I have at the moment. Anyway, the CSS Reboot [...]

• CSS Reboot

  Posted: 29 Oct 2005 at 20:18 by Dave

  Well, I am just finishing up my CSS Reboot design tonight, hopefully I will get it finished in time. It is based around the same photo as above but I do have at least a couple of cool new things in this one and it is mine from scratch rather than a hacked version of [...]

• VistaDB Update

  Posted: 29 Oct 2005 at 04:30 by Dave

  So after my previous post about VistaDB and their dubious blogging PR offer, I thought I would submit my blog URL to their system in the hope that they would read the post and find out what I thought about what they were doing. A strange thing happened, I got a license code for their software…

• Free Copy of VistaDB? No Thanks!

  Posted: 27 Oct 2005 at 10:07 by Dave

  Blog about VistaDB and get a free copy! Sounds like a good idea? right? Well maybe, but if you read on in their page its not so great. To get this free copy, you have to quote verbatim their ‘glossy’ marketing spiel, they don’t encourage you to try the product before you do this (

• Strip Tease with Gap

  Posted: 26 Oct 2005 at 12:33 by Dave

  This from Gap has to be the most bizarre viral advertising I ever saw. You are supposed to create a character of yourself in this little shockwave app and then it will do… errr… well, it will do a strip tease for you… But honestly, I am a 20 year old woman with large breasts!!! I

• Developer Developer Developer Day - Follow Up

  Posted: 23 Oct 2005 at 22:41 by Dave

  Thanks to everyone who attended my session on Saturday at the Developer Developer Developer Day event, I hope you all got something out of it and if you enjoyed it as much as I enjoyed presenting it then we are all happy As promised, I am putting the session slides up here for you [...]

• Microsoft Socks!!

  Posted: 23 Oct 2005 at 21:43 by Dave

  Best… tat… ever… - Come on Mike, admit you are jealous Courtesy of Developer Developer Developer Day 2

• Developer Developer Developer Day

  Posted: 21 Oct 2005 at 21:16 by Dave

  So tomorrow is the Developer Developer Developer day down at Microsoft Reading. I will be presenting there on “Managing your development process using Groove Forms”. I am going to use a practical example of how the company I work for has changed its development process over the past yea

• Flock it!

  Posted: 20 Oct 2005 at 22:19 by Dave

  I just got an invite to join the beta of Flock, a new browser that integrates with del.icio.us, flickr and has blogging tools built right in. It is a pretty early beta by the look of things but given that the browser itself is based on Gecko (the Mozilla/Firefox engine) it should at least be [...]

• The trouble with iPod

  Posted: 17 Oct 2005 at 06:28 by Dave

  Amen! http://www.bythom.com/apple.htm These are the reasons I got rid of my original iPod and will never buy a new one.

• WP-Flickr v0.3

  Posted: 13 Oct 2005 at 22:52 by Dave

  I have updated the WP-Flickr plug-in tonight with some more features: Added a tag preview to the options window for checking which flickr pics you will see without having to cache them all or do the post/edit/post/edit thing Option to suppress the automatic CSS output, although if you use this then

• iPod iPod iPod

  Posted: 12 Oct 2005 at 19:31 by Dave

  iPod iPod iPod iPod iPod iPod Would everyone shut up about the iPod already, please. Yes it will be huge through market and brand dominance. But is it new, or does it push any barriers back? Hell no, its old news and uses proprietary formats again. iPod schmiPod Technorati Tags: iPod shhhpowered by

• WP-Flickr v0.2.1

  Posted: 10 Oct 2005 at 07:30 by Dave

  There was a nasty bug in the v0.2 release of WP-Flickr that completely stopped caching working, oops. Updated release is here:   Download

• WP-Flickr v0.2

  Posted: 09 Oct 2005 at 23:19 by Dave

  This is going to be a very short post because its late but I just finished ironing out the last of the obvious bugs with my new plug-in WP-Flickr. See my previous post for a brief description of what this plug-in does and for some examples of it in use. The reason I am releasing it now [...]

• WP-FlickrTag

  Posted: 08 Oct 2005 at 22:29 by Dave

  I started to write my next WordPress plug-in tonight. I wanted a way to quickly put a small string of flickr photos into a post rather than on a sidebar or in a specific position on every page. The main thing for me when designing this was to make this as simple as possible, I [...]