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Web Components are the future of web development
Building applications by bolting together components is standard fare for developers; encapsulation and reusability have been key concepts donkeys years. So why does a practice that’s so ubiquitous across almost every aspect of software
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The quick, quick slow death of the website
Despite being an author of published novels, a friend of mine is having trouble finding a publisher for his latest tome. Discussions have been so protracted that he’s already well on the way to
Read More »Grunt – a build system for front-end professionals
In most programming language eco-systems, a comprehensive build system is taken for granted. Some are more convoluted than others: Java developers have long had to wrestle with the visual spaghetti of XML in order
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Would you prefer dinner with Pamela Anderson or a psychometric test?
The first time I came across psychometric tests was when a schoolfriend told me he’d just had to sit one as part of a recruitment selection procedure. He could only recall one of the
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Threema – private, secure messaging
Privacy is the new black and SnapChat looks like it’s wearing last season’s colours. What was supposed to be a secure, private service for sending time-expiring mobile messages was, according to the US Federal
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Safe Harbour is dead and ubiquitous cloud computing too
The US government is fighting desperately on behalf of the US cloud computing industry with its announcement that US privacy laws will probably be extended to non-US citizens. This is somewhat counter to a
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Do you talk shop at parties? But you’re in IT; boring!
My previous family doctor joked that when attending a party he would never tell anyone else exactly what line of work he was in. If he did, the response more often than not would
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Getting started on StartMail – part two
Email encryption Setting up encryption on a native email application is a bit convoluted and, frankly, beyond the perseverance of the average user. And is it actually possible to do this in a web
Read More »Getting started on StartMail – part one
Six months ago, due to privacy concerns, I migrated my domain’s email hosting from Gmail to MyKolab (you can read about how to do that here) and very happy with the results I’ve been too.
Read More »Getting started on StartMail – part three
This is the third part of a three-part series. Contacts At the time of writing, StartMail’s contacts implementation and contacts import functionality has yet to be completed. However, the following fields are currently shown
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