HTML5 Video Playback on Xbox and the Playstation

The ultimate guide to how to create and program a website that can play mp4 videos in the native browsers on both the Xbox and Playstation consoles. The code supports playing multiple videos in sequence according to a playlist and will auto run when ready.

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• 23 October 2016

Passing post variables to includes in Jekyll

In Jekyll includes do not have access to variables defined in your posts or pages. But don't worry here is how you can do it very easily.

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• 18 October 2016

A Complete Guide To Building a Bookmarklet App in Javascript

How to export GPX data from strava.com without being a premium member. strava.com is an excellent site to track cycling or running activities. Unfortunately they've paywalled their GPX export feature. However all this data is already downloaded by the web-browser when the user opens an activity. So I created a simple bookmarklet to display this data.

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• 11 July 2016

MapsToGPX.com website

This is the sixth update and a major rebranding of my old Google Maps to GPX converter tool. The tool is now called Maps-To-GPX and has its own dedicated domain mapstogpx.com.

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• 4 July 2016

WebP Image Generator for Jekyll Sites

Using WebP compression for images can be hugely beneficial for web-browsers that support this new format. This article is a complete guide and includes working source code for a fully automated WebP image generator for Jekyll websites.

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• 22 June 2016

Detailed GPS tracks from Google Maps

This is the fifth update to my Google Maps to GPX converter tool. The tool now supports fully featured and smooth track point path generation and a much simpler user interface.

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• 6 June 2016

Fixing a dead 30" Dell 3008WFP Monitor for $89 USD

The Dell 3008WFP monitors have a very common manufacturing fault in their power board. This fault manifests in the monitor suddenly not turning on (the power indicator light doesn't light up). This is due to a faulty $2 diode in the power board controller. Here is how you can fix it by replacing the entire board yourself for about $89 USD and 1 hours work.

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• 1 June 2016

Detecting which screen a fullscreen app occupies

Correctly detecting the screen that an app is running in a multi monitor setup on requires that the code supports both a windowed as well as a fullscreen app.

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• 29 May 2016

Control Orange Livebox internet router using C#

C# library that allows you to access and control your Orange Livebox internet router (SoftAtHome) using C# and .NET

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• 24 May 2016

WebRequest and related caching issues in .NET

It can be hard to deal with excessive server-side caching when using .NET's WebRequest and HttpWebRequest. Incorrect server-side setup can result in your networking code constantly fetching out-of-date cached data. Here is how you solve it using custom sockets.

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• 20 April 2016