It’s written using jQuery, which I’m thoroughly enjoying; as is another larger project that I’m working on.

More on that soon, but until then, have a look at the Bingo at let me know what you think…

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 to publish my files.

It works! Here’s how…

1. Install the Dropbox client,
2. Once installed, navigate to the Public sub-directory in whichever directory you assigned as the Dropbox directory,
3. Right-click on the “How to use the Public folder.rtf” file,
4. In the Dropbox menu item, click “Copy Public Link”,
5. Paste it into any notepad application,
6. In Visual Studio, in the Publish tab of your project’s properties, use the following information (substituting your own locations as required):
   • Publishing Folder Location: C:\My Documents\My Dropbox\Public\Project1\
   • Installation Folder Location: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/xxxxxx/Project1/ (Paste the link from step 4, removing the How to use the Public folder.rtf portion and adding the project directory)
   • Click the “Updates” button,
   • Update Location: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/xxxxxx/Project1/ (I always do this just to be on the safe side)
7. Publish
8. That’s it! The files will sync to the Dropbox servers, and the project is deployed!

Now all you have to give out is the URL to either the http://dl.dropbox.com/u/xxxxxx/Project1/index.html file if you chose to generate one in your publishing options, or http://dl.dropbox.com/u/xxxxxx/Project1/setup.exe directly.

Easy-peasy, lemon-squeezy.

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 defacement suggests the site – tayside.police.uk – was compromised via poor password security, though this remains unconfirmed.

[Via: The Register]

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 Labs.

Google Short Links allows users to easily create descriptive shortcuts to web URLs. This makes it easier for users to recall and share the locations of important documents and web sites.

[Via: Google Solutions Marketplace]

http://domai.nr

http://www.gandi.net

You can find it at http://www.alfieclark.com

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# web services back to the SQL Server.

Like the online booking, the AJAX layer is based on "The Ultimate AJAX object" by Patrick Hunlock, which I’ve found to be one of the only objects that elegantly supports concurrency.

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# web services back to the SQL Server.

The AJAX layer is based on "The Ultimate AJAX object" by Patrick Hunlock, which I’ve found to be one of the only objects that elegantly supports concurrency.