I can access T-Mobile UK WiFi HotSpots with my T-Mobile Mobile Broadband account (I have a 3G USB stick) but I find the signing in process rather painful. It goes something like this: I have to remember my phone number (I never call my USB Stick so I've never memorized it) and type in my [...]

If you're on T-Mobile Web 'n' Walk on a Mac, you probably use the imaginatively-named "stick manager" to connect to the Internet. While it is a remarkable piece of software engineering (with helpful alerts like "Success to Connect!", "Fail to Connect!", and, my favorite, "Success to Disconnect"), it is actually an entirely unnecessary bit of [...]

The Yahoo! Flex Skin is a lovely minimalist skin by the good folks on Yahoo!'s Flash team. However, it has an issue that you need to work around if you want to load it in dynamically at runtime. It's a simple thing, but I thought I'd document it here in hopes that it will help [...]

Update: Beta 2 Released! See the Gaebar Beta 2 announcement. Here's my Christmas present for the Google App Engine community: Google App Engine Backup and Restore (or Gaebar, for short). Gaebar is an easy-to-use, standalone Django application that you can plug in to your existing Google App Engine Django or app-engine-patch-based Django applications on Google App Engine [...]

For my latest project, I decided to bite bullet and go with git and GitHub. It's a little disconcerting as I'm really comfortable with SVN but a good move nonetheless since that sort of comfort is rarely a good thing (there are many things I wish SVN did differently but I use it because I [...]