27″ of shiny glass fruit?

Well, I’ve finally done it. I’ve switched from Windows to Mac. WHOA hold on there … my site says I dabble in .NET Development, right? How does THAT work on Mac? Ahh well, Parallels Desktop 5 for Mac, which I’m trialling at the moment, is the answer there. Version 5, the newest version, has a cool mode called Coherence that means apps running in the Windows virtual environment...

Microsoft Excel – Delete matching rows

As part of my new role at Fujitsu here in Wellington I’ve been running a whole load of reports from the SAN I’ve been assigned to. I’m not going to go into any detail about the SAN itself other than to say it’s from HP (for obvious reasons) but the reports I get from the reporting tools aren’t that useful in themselves. Many tens of thousands of lines of reporting data is hard to read...

Aptana Studio drops native PHP support

Gutted! Aptana Studio, the editor I use for PHP development, has released the latest version, 2.0, and removed support for native PHP editing at the same time. ...

Resharper Open Source License = Awesome (and free!)

A while ago I heard about an add-on for Visual Studio called Jetbrains Resharper – most people reading this article have probably heard of it, too. Anyway, I downloaded the evaluation version from the Resharper website and tried it out. If you are prepared to deal with a very slight slow-down in your Visual Studio environment (inevitable with add-ons) it’s an add-on well worth investigating. From the...

PHP script to show files in directory with a bit of style – v0.4

I’m undecided on how to go about posting updates that relate to posts I’ve already made so please bear with me until I work it out. As with last time I wrote an updated post for the Digital Formula PHP File List System, a small project I’m using to ‘practice’ PHP, this post is basically a re-write of what was posted last time but with a few changes that relate to this specific...