After almost half a year of refurbishment work the Waterloo and City London underground line will reopen next week, on 11th of September. more »

Those of you who use Microsoft Outlook know about its address auto-completion functionality. You type a few letters into the address field and Outlook presents you with a list of possible completions. The list includes those recipients, to whom you sent e-mails recently. The problems start when an address is no longer relevant, either because the person has got a new one, or you don't write him/her many letters any … more »

According to an article in The Economist, London attracts more capital and hedge fund managers each year. Mayfair starts to threaten NY's dominance as the hedge fund capital of the world. Higher profitability as well as better regulation are quoted as the reasons behind the change. An interesting quote: Amazingly, the FSA (the UK financial regulator) has fined only one hedge-fund manager thus far—and that was for just £750,000 ($1.4m). … more »

An article claims, that the property market in the United States will collapse any moment, since many home owners cannot make necessary mortgage payments. Another one also discusses a problem with payments - this time describing a particular controversial mortgage product, still quite popular in the US, which the article claims was wrongly sold to many people who didn't understand the risks involved. I must admit that both articles were … more »

I wonder whether there are ways to improve ratings of my site without paying for advertisement. Any bright and not too obvious ideas are welcome! Write in comments below... more »

Microsoft is developing a command line environment, which they call PowerShell . I read some negative feedback, but it looks rather interesting and powerful. The main difference from traditional Unix approach is that the commands do not communicate via standard input/output channels, but rather export and consume objects with properties. These properties can be queried and eventually actioned upon. The current release candidate uses .NET Framework 2. It would be … more »

All you Windows developers - there is an alternative to Regsvr32.exe - Reggie . I haven't used it yet, but it looks quite promising. You need it if you experience problems registering your COM+ DLLs or typelibs, and don't have a clue what is the cause. Reggie is more informative, and even provides a shell return code, so it can be deployed in scripts. more »

I really like Drupal - the open source community and blogging software. But their alphabetic sorting drives me nuts - is it so complicated to create proper manual ordering? They have something called "weights", which can be assigned to items in a list, but this is really not convenient, especially when lists change frequently or are long. But given how many great and useful features they already have, I hope … more »

Since I heard about first release of Mozilla browser, and the fact, that most of it was written in JavaScript and XUL, I thought about creating a web testing tool, which would use Mozilla-based browser to test web site functionality automatically. The tool would automatically visit every link on every page and would try to click every button and so on. The tool should be configurable via some sort of … more »

My site exports Google Sitemap , using a module for Drupal. I find it quite amazing, that every time I add content, Google actually go and download the sitemap and then the new content! I guess it is still not very popular, so they can afford to devote quite a lot of resources for individual updates of sites with low rank. more »