Al Priest’s Blog

Open Google Chrome developer tools. Click the cog in the bottom right of the window Choose “Preserve log upon navigation” This was tested with Google Chrome 14.0.835.163 m on Windows.

Fiddler is a Web Debugging Proxy which logs all HTTP(S) traffic between your computer and the Internet. Fiddler allows you to inspect all HTTP(S) traffic, set breakpoints, and “fiddle” with incoming or outgoing data. Download Fiddler from http://www.fiddler2.com/, it’s freeware! It runs on Windows, but can debug traffic originating in any operating system (by making [...]

A colleague mentioned IETester today at work. In a nutshell it lets you test your website in multiple version of Internet Explorer on the same machine, no need for seperate VMs. It lets you arrange browsers side-by-side by dragging (ala Windows 7 and Chrome 2).

Mozilla has launched an interesting labs add-on for Firefox called Ubiquity. It’s a productivity tool for passionate users, as the Scobleizer writes “It’s not for non-passionate Internet users. They won’t get it.“. Download it, read the tutorial, have a play, extend it, and increase your productivity ) UPDATE 8/Sep/2008: I’ve creaed a ubiquity command for [...]

I’ve written a script to parse the London Underground real-time tube status page and convert it into an Xml feed. It caches the output from TfL for 1 minute. If their page structure changes i’ll endeavour to update my parser. You can get the feed as Xml or HTML. I’ve also started the ball rolling [...]

I’ve had a few occasions to print out a website exactly as the browser is displaying it. Usually it involves a screen grab, scroll down, screen grab, scroll down etc. and then stitching the images back together. I’ve now found a much simpler solution – ScreenGrab: Screengrab! is an extension for Firefox that makes it [...]

iSquint – Mac OS X only, converts and imports movies you have which aren’t in .MOV format into iTunes. This means you can use Front Row to watch them. Takes about 15 minutes for a 75 minute movie. Fingers crossed it also means I’ll be able to use Apple TV to watch them over the [...]

I’ve spent a short while today upgrading my Pub Finder to use the Google Maps 2.0 API. I’ve also added indexes onto the data set to improve the speed. Finding any one of the 5,149 pubs now in the database is now even quicker so there’s no excuse to drink in a dodgy pub.

I’ve got my Google Maps / Beer In The Evening mashup working again. Seems I completely missed the Google Maps API V2 changes which broke the layout and the ‘link to this pub’ links. Unfortunately I still can’t get my CSS to expand the map to the available screen size so if anyone has any [...]

My site has been featured on Times Online – Google spawns travel map mash-ups – Online Travel – Times Online Bring on the referrals!