Phil Leggetter

I’ve been out of contract with O2 for probably around two years now and during this time I’ve been perfectly happy with the XDA IQ that I’ve got.

About a week ago I wrote a blog article at work entitled "What is the real-time web?".

Are we really seeing the real-time web?

function ReadFile($filename) { $fh = fopen($filename, 'r'); $theData = fread($fh, filesize($filename)); fclose($fh); return $theData; }

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="220" caption="Me in the snow in Hertford"][/caption] Jo took some great photos and a couple of videos of Hertford in the snow today.

I follow Chris Garrett on Twitter and he posted a link to a blog post about Which is the worst Transformer?.

Jo and I have decided that we are going to start going for Sunday lunch and are going to keep a list of where we've been and what we thought of it.

JQuery UI Update - 31/01/2009 @ 17:15 Richard Worth just got in touch with me via twitter to let me know that JQuery UI 1.5.3 is only compatible with JQuery 1.2.6.

I've had one of those days.

I remember Darth Vader being much taller!

I think that Live Mesh will be really useful.

To make a cross domain web request with SilverLight 2 really isn't that tough.

Here's a link to a very useful tool that'll download the latest Google Chrome (well Chromium) nightly build.

As I was cleaning up the contents of my desktop I came across a text file containing a list of links to .NET obfuscator offerings.

I've been back at work a week now after my holiday on Colonsay and I still think that I could have done with another week on this beautiful Scottish Isle.

I was awoken on the first day of my holiday to a clattering sound and my girlfriend exclaiming "I can't get the top drawer open".

Liberator FE I work for Caplin Systems who have recently released Liberator FE which is the Free Edition of their real time Comet server product.

I've just updated my Synaptics touchpad drivers and after a restart the scrolling no longer worked.

I recently took a job back at Caplin Systems in London and as a result have started commuting into the city every day by train.

Taken from: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/showpost.aspx?

I've accepted a job down in London so will be selling my lovely flat in Edinburgh.

In June 2006 I started working as a self employed software consultant.

I've just treated myself to a new laptop and one of the first things I found was that I couldn't access my NAS (Network Attached Storage) with windows explorer using Windows Vista Ultimate.

Google is slowly moving away from its simple basic colour look to a new - but still simple - Web 2.0 look.

I've been aware of Microsoft's documentation generation system called Sandcastle for a while now but only recently have I had a chance to use it.

Rob of GIS Consultancy fame recently sent me a link to a website dedicated to tracking and fixing of neighbourhood problems.

With the reasonable success of Bring Back Beckham!

Back in October 2006 I had an idea for a website.

Mapping APIs have been around for ages now and all the big guns (Google, Yahoo, Microsoft) have thrown their hat into the ring. You can even get a Google maps plugin for wordpress plugin to allow you to easily put a map in your blog.

I came a across a fun little tool that estimates what your domain is worth.

Once you know it you'll probably never forget it...but wait, this is the second time I've googled for this.

I was recently in an RTA.

Update: My post on the XBox360 forum was removed - looks like they are trying to hide the fact that it really is a problem My fantastic girlfriend bought me an XBox 360 for Christmas.

The old blog is still over @ http://www.phobos7.co.uk but I've decided to start a new one here on my wonderful new domain.

Since most of the hits to my site will probably be following a search for either "Leggetter" or "JavaScript" I thought that I had best post something about the latter of these topics.