Month: September 2013

Installing HMRC’s PAYE tools on OS X

Post author By adam
Post date September 18, 2013
2 Comments on Installing HMRC’s PAYE tools on OS X

The old PAYE tools was bad, really bad – I saw it generate the wrong figures once (i.e. actively costing UK small businesses real money for HMRC’s carelessness).

The new one is great – but it hasn’t been tested properly. The install instructions are wrong, it installs illegally on OS X, and it has a major bug in the configuration system. By accident, I discovered it’s all written in Python, which I find very interesting although currently it’s a bad advert for the language :(.

Here’s how I fixed it…

fixing your desktop

Fixing Firefox: removing the bad new-tab window (AGAIN!)

Post author By adam
Post date September 16, 2013

We already had to do this a year or so ago when Firefox developers tried to force a bad UI paradigm on us.

Now they’ve done it again, and added a new way to turn “new tab” from something that does what it says, into something that does stuff you don’t want.

Turn it off by pressing the magic button that exists nowhere else in Firefox and which you’d never guess was related to this broken feature.

iphone programming

OpenGL ES 2: Basic Drawing

Post author By adam
Post date September 8, 2013
6 Comments on OpenGL ES 2: Basic Drawing

UPDATED 24/09/13: Added some essential details to the class files at end of post, and corrected typos

UPDATED 24/09/13: Added Github project with full source from this article

This is Part 2. Part 1 was an overview of where Apple’s GLKit helps with OpenGL ES setup and rendering.

I’ve been using OpenGL ES 2 less than a year, so if you see anything odd here, I’m probably wrong. Might be a mix-up with desktop OpenGL, or just a typo. Comment/ask if you’re not sure.