Category Archives: Technology

TestSwarm for JQuery

Posted on October 26, 2009 by Doug Porter

At my day job I have started working again on our websites and after hearing many people talk about how great the JQuery JavaScript library is, I’ve started working with it. This library is absolutely incredible. If you are doing … Continue reading →

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Must-Have FireFox Plugins

Posted on September 28, 2009 by Doug Porter

Anyone that browses the web on Windows should have years ago kicked Internet Explorer to the curb in place of other options. The web browser that I recommend is called FireFox and is a fantastic improvement over IE. One of … Continue reading →

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TurnKey Linux Software Appliances

Posted on September 21, 2009 by Doug Porter

When testing out new software packages or development environments, part of the hassle tends to be downloading the package, finding a spare machine, installing it on that machine, and then getting it configured and ready to go. A great site … Continue reading →

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EasyVMX Empowers the VMWare Player

Posted on September 14, 2009 by Doug Porter

At work we use the VMWare product suite extensively. We have the luxury of having licenses to almost all of their products. At home though I do not have personal licenses to many of these products but still want to … Continue reading →

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PushPin Keeps Windows Always On Top

Posted on September 7, 2009 by Doug Porter

I have started using Hulu Desktop at home and ran into the annoying problem that I wanted to keep the Hulu Desktop window always on top of all other windows. I looked for something built-in to Windows Vista but did … Continue reading →

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