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hashbo

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About hashbo

Team behind Boardcast a new communication medium under development at http://boardcast.it

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    I have to agree, I've programmed in a good few languages over the years and really you need to go with what makes you happy and keeps you paid. I write in Java everyday and love it…

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    +1 You can’t trust the Referer header.

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    It’s usually a bad sign about the interviewer’s interviewing skills, not always them as a person or the team. I have worked for some nice, amiable smart folk who interview like cra…

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    Comment #3620107

    Great idea, get apps out of the ghetto!

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    Comment #3603663

    Added, and extra fonts and colour depth fixed :-)

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    Comment #3602315

    Yeah I think it’s the ‘with finesse part’ that is worth pursuing for sure.

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    Comment #3602286

    Why thank you kind sir/lady. So this came about because people keep asking me for what tool to use to full page snapshots. And while there are tools that do it on your local machin…

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    Comment #3602282

    It’s a test of the water in regards to a more user focussed website snapshotting service. Rather than the usual aimed at integrating into third parties. In reality it was put toget…

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    Josh if you see it still let me know. I just hacked a quick JS fix and tested in FF10 and all seems to be well. But as you know each version of each browser has it’s own little fea…

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    Comment #3602261

    It knows your naughty thoughts and is busy thinking nice thoughts. Or in fact the website has some missing artefacts which confuse Snapito! Consider that bug firmly raised.

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    Comment #3602258

    Yeah snapshotting itself is a big no-no :-) nice try ;-) LOL

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    Javascript is on but this is running on headless Linux without TTF so there’s the rub, clearly the fonts are a big issue so I’m thinking about the whole elegant rendering aspect ac…

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    Comment #3602250

    What a fabulous little idea Andy! Duly noted.

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    Comment #3602226

    Good idea! Will do.

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    Comment #3602217

    :-) I use wkhtmltoimage but I’m considering a move over to PhantomJS it’s a known bug that if a page contains a missing resource which 404s then the whole thing 404s. Hence why I’m…

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    Josh that’s really interesting, what browser were you using, because the app doesn’t say ‘Please enter a URL’ this must be a browser feature working against input type=‘url’. I’d l…

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    Thx. Really, without the http:// - darn - do you have an example, that would be awesome if you did. I just tried a few and they seem to work. But clearly there’s a bug somewhere so…