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Nearly there

John Jones — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 14:52:20 +0000

The new venture is nearly complete to launch on the world.

An alternative to paypal..

John Jones — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 21:09:56 +0000

Well today after getting rightly annoyed with paypal, I found this service Moneybookers they look to do all the same stuff as paypal, but seem to allow me to verify my bank account, something that paypal would not allow, as they said my bank did not allow direct debits (now I know my bank does do direct debits, as I see the monies go out of my account each month)

Magento theme, one of the best I have found

John Jones — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 15:47:35 +0000

A good resource for mobile apps push notifications on ios

John Jones — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 23:30:05 +0000

http://mobiforge.com/developing/story/programming-apple-push-notificatio...

Copied the text here to ensure if the link goes I have a copy.

Programming Apple Push Notification Services

One of the key limitations of the iPhone is its constraint on running applications in the background. Because of this, applications cannot keep running in the background when the user switches to another application. So, applications that require a constant state of connectivity (such as social networking applications) will not be able to receive timely updates.

online accountants for limited companies

John Jones — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 09:22:11 +0000

Got told of a new accountancy service, that allows you to interact completely through their web site there are other services around on the internet, but this one has been the only one that I have seen sofar that does the end of year filings as well as the VAT submissions, you can create a demo account here

Its been done with contractors in mind, but will work for any limited company.

Creating apple notification certificates

John Jones — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 14:15:02 +0000

To get started with APNS you need to generate an certificate unique to each applications which will support APNS. You need to log into your iPhone developer portal with “Team Agent” access. Only users with “Team Agent” access can do the below mentioned process. The iPhone developer portal with “Team Agent ” has a detailed steps to generate an APNS certificate. You should be able to see the screen shown below in the portal to start creating your APNS certificate. Follow the steps mentioned below:-

Setting up multiple memcached instances

John Jones — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:06:10 +0000

http://spf13.com/feature/running-multiple-memcache-instances

Little bit of snow :)

John Jones — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 16:16:20 +0000

installing memcache on centos through yum

John Jones — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 09:56:37 +0000

http://www.lullabot.com/articles/installing-memcached-redhat-or-centos

Also upgrading php to v5.2 on centos JSON is the issue on 5.1.6 (issue is its not supported till 5.2)

http://bluhaloit.wordpress.com/2008/03/13/installing-php-52x-on-redhat-e...

adding images to drupal

John Jones — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:57:44 +0000

Good PDF can be got here

http://www.jenlampton.com/wysiwyg.pdf

Largest file in the disk for unix

John Jones — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:22:26 +0000

http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=30599&seqNum=4

Removal of a e46 rear bumper

John Jones — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 10:26:12 +0000

A very good guide on how to do this on a facelift saloon is here

http://forum.e46fanatics.com/showthread.php?t=358017

and some more information on the clips is here

http://forum.e46fanatics.com/showthread.php?t=655802

Going racing...

John Jones — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 18:01:59 +0000

Well to make more of my love for cars, I am going to racing a car in a racing series this year.

The championship is called the BMWRDC (www.bmwrdc.com) and my car is being prepared by myself (apart from the cage as I need it to have a certificate)

You can see the progress here www.going-racing.com/blog/ for the build diary.

Putting firefox into developer mode.

John Jones — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 11:13:33 +0000

Putting the following in a browser url bar, can put the page into a editable mode.

javascript: document.body.contentEditable = 'true'; document.designMode = 'on'; void 0

Which new phone...

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 10:57:04 +0000

Well looking around for a new phone as the contract on my Blackberry is up in one month (although for the last 12 months I have been using a unlocked Apple iPhone ;) )

The phones I have considered are as follows :

Apple iPhone on pay as you go
Blackberry storm
sony X1
HTC Touch HD
Googles G1

comparison of the phones in sizes and weight as below

Phone	Width (mm)	Height (mm)	Depth (mm)	Weight (g)	Operating System