Adam Williams - PHP Web Developer Leeds, UK

New online independent music radio station launched

Hi Internet peeps,
I currently have 7 Spotify invites to give away, so if you would like one please leave your details and I will get the invite emailed to you.
Seriously, if anyone reading this doesn’t have Spotify, you’re missing out big time, so bag yourself an invite while I have some left!

Here’s some code which allows you to calculate the distance in miles, kilometres or nautical miles between two sets of coordinates:
[code lang="js"]/* Function Name: distance()
Function Description: Calculates the distance between two sets of coordinates.
@Author: Adam Williams <adam.williams@awdigital.eu>
@License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/uk/
@Example: distance(53.61857936489517, -1.4501953125, 65.82078234733756, -172.265625, [...]

If you’ve installed Windows on your Mac using Bootcamp and are desperately looking for the hash symbol (#) you will eventually discover that it is not on your keyboard and the Mac short cut of Alt + 3 doesn’t work.
However, if you try Ctrl + Alt + 3 it should work just fine .
Happy [...]

Well today is good news day for Macheads everywhere. Google has just released a Mac version of their Chrome browser.
Download it from http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en/huzzah.html.
From the Google announcement:
Here are a few fun facts from us on the Google Chrome for Mac team:

73,804 lines of Mac-specific code written
29 developer builds
1,177 Mac-specific bugs fixed
12 external committers and bug editors [...]

If you’re checking out an SSL hosted SVN repository in Coda you may receive the following error:
Server certificate verification failed: issuer is not trusted
This error is because the SSL hasn’t been trusted by your system. To fix this complete the following:

Open Terminal (Applications/Utilities/Terminal)
Enter the following: svn list https://www.example.com/svn/ –username user replacing the URL and username [...]

Hi,
I’ve got 7 Google Wave invites to give away.
If you would like one please get in touch.

If you have any general web design, CSS, JavaScript, PHP or MySQL questions you can now ask Adam. Just complete the form on http://root-servers.co.uk/ask-adam and I will reply via the blog.

As I mentioned in my previous post I’ve just installed Windows 7 on my Macbook and one of the issues I’ve come across is the lack of a right click button on the trackpad.
Here’s a way to get right clicking without having to plug in an external mouse:

Make sure you have run the Bootcamp installer [...]

Hi,
I just bought a copy of Windows 7 Ultimate and decided to set it up on my Macbook (running OS X 10.5) using Bootcamp.
The install was very straight forward and the graphics and networking worked out of the box. The only issue I had was getting the sound to work. After a bit of googling [...]