Mark Edgington

Category: misc

  • Productivity through sound and timing

    Don’t be slack, take hold of those ‘between interruption’ moments and expand them to become effective periods in the day. Multiply this a few times and before you know it you’re on the road to ultimate productivity! I wish this were completely true, but read on and i will explain the simple repeatable steps that I’ve…

  • Bima Digital Day 2013

     The BIMA Digital Day is about making young people aware of the opportunities within Britain’s burgeoning digital industry – a sector which not only uses technology and applications beloved of youngsters but which also promises them a career which offers higher than average salaries and features working environments characterised by being that bit more relaxed than those…

  • How to Publish to the Amazon Kindle & IBooks

    The key things you need to know and do to publish to the Amazon Kindle and IBooks.

  • 100+ contacts, not one little wave in 5 months – Is google wave dead?

    Like many others i was interested to get hold of a Google wave account.  I tried to make the most of it for months, inviting many to join and testing waves and the varied add-ons.  But, it just seems to have no present use in my life, or by the looks of it any of…

  • Anterior Lumbar Interbody Fusion (ALIF) – Back Surgery

    I recently had a back operation in February and only found articles that scared me half to death, so thought I’d write a little on my experience; hopefully to put you mind to rest. What is an Alif ? Anterior Lumbar Interbody Fusion (ALIF) is a back surgery that involves approaching the spine through an…

  • How do i delete SVN folders?

    When deploying websites, all SVN folders should be deleted, but SVN doesn’t include any built in commands to do this. The registry hack below can do this for you – it adds “Delete SVN Folders” to the context menu for folders. When you select it, it removes all folders named .svn inside the folder and…

  • Can you Predict the X Factor Winner using Twitter?

    I thought this was pretty interesting,  the  full article is worth a read, see the link below. Bil Tancer at Hitwise occasionally tries to predict talent show winners by studying Search activity, but there are now too many dynamics to interpret to be able to use internet data to easily predict X Factor winners and losers this year.…

  • Cookie Sniffing and Trading

    What does that mean? There are networks of  companies  who create cookies on your machine and use these to track  your behaviour  across multiple websites.                         And in English? You will see ad  based content on one site based on  your activity on another and you won’t even  know it  happened.                         Who invented   it?…

  • Amazon CloudFront – Replacing the content database

    Amazon launch of Cloudfront, a tightly integrated content delivery service built over their S3 offering promises content delivery routed to the nearest edge location, giving optimal performance to the content user. This extension to S3 should get the content management system (CMS) providers and companies such as Akamai thinking. The service will allow the database…

  • Steve Jobs’ 2005 Stanford Commencement Address

    If your going to spend 15 minutes watching a video, make sure it’s this one.