Who's Alan Peart?

I'm a 35-year-old web developer and IT consultant, born in Ireland but currently living in Pateley Bridge, North Yorkshire.

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May not the habit in scientific pursuits of believing nothing till it is proved, influence your mind too much in other things which cannot be proved in the same way, & which if true are likely to be above our comprehension.

PostHeaderIcon The inescapable gravity of Firefox

I've been moving away from using Firefox as my main browser due to the fact that Chrome seems much faster at running Javascript and uses less memory, but I keep getting pulled back due to the fantastic plugins that Firefox has available. I've found some equivalents in the list of Chrome extensions, but they just don't seem quite as...good. Today I was directed to another amazing Firefox plugin - Pixelperfect.

PostHeaderIcon Notes on the Linux experience so far

I've had some trouble finding an FTP program for Ubuntu that works as well and reliably as WinSCP. In fact, it's got to the point where I've been considering running WinSCP under WINE (Windows Emulation for Linux). I've tried Filezilla, a very popular program, but it was a disaster. It dropped connections halfway through large transfers, transferred files using the wrong protocols when in auto mode, and cost me a lot of time in tracking down bugs due to files incorrectly or not at all transferred. In trying to figure out what was wrong with my setup I discovered the Filezilla support forum, where the developer was extremely rude to people reporting problems like mine. FAIL! I instantly uninstalled it.