Michael S. Clark

I’ve recently been using Dropbox.com to keep my files in sync between home and work. I’ve also been on the hunt for a (free) site to host ClickOnce deployments. It was only in a revelation whilst I was in bed last night that I wondered if I could use Dropbox’s Public directory as the target [...]

I’ve updated Alfie’s blog with videos from his first birthday party. Click here to view them.

A London cash machine operator has turned some of its ATM units into Cockney rhyming slang outposts. Five of the Bank Machine’s ATMs have been updated with the backdated vocabulary option and, for example, may ask users for their Huckleberry Finn instead of their PIN. Both inventive and forward thinking, those Cockneys. [Via: L'Inq]

Tayside Police have restored their website following an embarrassing defacement late last week. Surfers visiting the site from late afternoon on Thursday were confronted by a defacement, claimed in the name of Scottish comedian Frankie Boyle, and accompanied by notes more in the style of Irvine Welsh than Jim Taggart. The text included in the [...]

URL shortening services are ubiquitous on Twitter and other cramped online spaces. They won’t all last, as tr.im has demonstrated, and their shutdowns could annihilate your linking history. If you own a domain, though, you can host your own service. [Via: lifehacker] Updated: Since I’m using Google Apps, I simply installed Google Short Links from Google [...]

A couple of useful links for registering domain names: http://domai.nr http://www.gandi.net

I’ve officially launched Alfie’s own website, also based on WordPress. You can find it at http://www.alfieclark.com

The Pro Shop that I developed at Computa Services for the Carnoustie Golf Links, is now live. It uses concurrent AJAX, calling a lightweight PHP+XML web service layer to communicate with a Microsoft SQL Server. The management application that the staff at the Links use to administer the bookings is written in C#, using C# [...]

The online tee-time booking system that I developed at Computa Services for the Carnoustie Golf Links, is now live. It uses concurrent AJAX, calling a lightweight PHP+XML web service layer to communicate with a Microsoft SQL Server. The management application that the staff at the Links use to administer the bookings is written in C#, [...]

Thanks to Songbird Karaoke who were on at the Commercial Inn in Arbroath. This is me singing “Two Princes” by the Spin Doctors.