Two days at Over the Air 2011

Posted by Nathan Wong on 21st October 2011

A few weeks ago I was lucky enough to travel to the beautiful Bletchley Park near Milton Keynes for an event called Over The Air, a community-run conference for mobile development featuring an overnight hack-a-thon.

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Apache on Windows: How to fix the Port 80 already in use error

Posted by Stuart Forster on 17th October 2011
Tagged: windows, skype

When on windows and trying to start apache, if apache is starting up fairly late you may see that it doesn't start and complains about port 80 already being in use (but how?!).

Alot of time this is actually caused by Skype which chooses to listen on port 80 aswell.

First way to solve this is to open up skype after apache has already been started, the alternative way is to tell skype not to listen on port 80. To do this; in Skype goto Tools -> Options, click on Advanced, then Connection and uncheck the check box saying 'Use port 80 and 443 as alternatives for incoming connections'.

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5 Javascript UI Frameworks you may not have heard of

Posted by Stuart Forster on 14th October 2011
Tagged: js, frameworks

Here is a quick roundup of 5 javascript UI frameworks you may not have heard of.

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