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Bag of Spanners
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The online notebook of a professional software developer, freelance web designer and developer, sometime open source evangelist, and recent twitter addict.
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Keyboard Shortcuts for Google Chrome
Tabs CTRL+B open new tab CTRL+TAB cycle through tabs CTRL+SHIFT+TAB cycle through tabs backwards CTRL+<number> go to Nth tab CTRL+W close the current tab CTRL+SHIFT+T open the tab you just closed Font Size / Image Size CTRL+ make everything ...
Calling a .NET Webservice with JQuery
I have been working on a project using JQuery in a webpart, communicating with a .NET webservice. To do so, I had to figure out how to call a standard .NET webservice from jQuery – the answer exists all over the internet, but nobody had really ...
Alternative Interfaces for Google Tasks
While looking around at alternative task management tools to RememberTheMilk, I had another look at Google Tasks, and happened upon a few URLs that might come in handy in the future; https://mail.google.com/tasks/canvas – Full screen view of t...
Uploading Files into Microsoft SharePoint with jQuery, AjaxUpload, and an ASHX file
I have been working on a client project recently where the main aim is to make the user experience “nice” – this typically means no postbacks. Along the way to implementing it via webparts, jQuery, and AjaxUpload, I had one thing le...
4 Great (Free) Project Management Solutions for Freelancers
Over the last few weeks I have been looking around for good (free) tools to aid communication with freelance clients – to get questions answered and report progress during projects. The following solutions are perhaps the most promising; WordPr...
Google open sources the “Google Chrome” operating system
It seems to be a week of big announcements from Google. This week has seen the unveiling of the initial codebase for the much talked about Google Chrome operating system. After having a read of the initial responses to Google Chrome OS, I’m so...

