By Danny on February 9, 2010
I’m not much of a football fan, but I do love the rugby. Especially when I get to watch the finest players from Wales (being Welsh myself) play against the likes of England, Scotland, Ireland, France and Italy!
The problem is, is that I always forget when the games I want to watch are on.
Well to combat this the RBS Six Nations website have kindly provided us with an events feed that we can add to our calendars. Basically, I’ve grabbed this feed and made some changes, added some more data (e.g. Alarms and Reminders) and renamed it to something a little more intuitive.
You can add the calendar feed by clicking here.

RBS Rugby Calendar
Not sure how to get this working?
To SUBSCRIBE to the calendar to get updates and changes:
Using your iPhone
- Copy the following link:
http://www.icalx.com/public/dannycroft/RBS%20Six%20Nations%20Rugby.ics
- Go to “Settings”
- Then click “Mail,Contacts,Calendars”
- Click “Add Account”
- Click “Other” (Right at the bottom)
- Click “Add Subscribed Calendar”
- In the “Server” field paste the link your copied from step 1
- Then click “Next” and then Save
- The calendar should now be installed
Using iCal on your Mac
- In the top menu. Click Calendar -> Subscribe
- When the popup box appears paste in the following:
http://www.icalx.com/public/dannycroft/RBS%20Six%20Nations%20Rugby.ics
- Click “Subscribe” and then you can make any appearance changes you would like.
- Click OK and you should have installed the new calendar.
Microsoft Outlook (2007 or later)
- Go to Tools > Account Settings
- Choose Internet Calendars tab
- Click “New…”
- Paste the following URL into the location field and click Add
http://www.icalx.com/public/dannycroft/RBS%20Six%20Nations%20Rugby.ics
To simply just ADD all the events to your calendar:
- Click on this link
- If you’ve downloaded it on a MAC and have iCal then it should open automatically, when it does just click “OK” to add it to your calendar. If your using Entourage then you can just right click on the file that you downloaded in the previous step (RBS Six Nations Rugby.ics) an click “Open With” then select Entourage. I think you can just right click on the file in Windows and open it with Outlook, but being a MAC user I’m not sure about that. Let me know if that’s correct though.
- Once you have completed the steps above you should have all the events in your calendar.
If you know any other ways to add this calendar to other applications and platforms please let me know and I’ll put them here for everyone to see. The more the merrier and all that!
Posted in Other
By Danny on January 13, 2010
Today, like many others I have been following the terrible aftermath of the Haiti Earthquake. After listening to a particularly hard hitting Radio 4 broadcast and learning that a massive array of charities around the world needed donations and support to help provide relief to Haiti, I hunted down the fastest way to make a donation.
Being halfway through the daily commute to work I didn’t have my wallet on me, so I found it incredibly difficult to find a charity online that excepted donations for Haiti relief support via PayPal (PayPal have all my details stored online).
In the end I found only one charity that excepted donations via PayPal. This was the charity Save The Children.
You can make a donation (via PayPal) by visiting the following link: http://www.savethechildren.org/get-involved/fundraising-challenges/alt-ways-to-give-earthquake-wpg-haiti-0110.html
My concern is that there doesn’t seem to be enough fast and simple methods to make a donation to Haiti Support Relief. I remember when the Radio 1 DJ Chris Moyles and his team climbed Mount Kilimanjaro. They gave out a 4 digit number that people could text on your mobile phone to make a donation! Now surely thats the fastest and most simple way for people to make a donation.
You would think that someone would have set this up by now and that charities would maximise the total payment methods that you can use to make a donation!
UPDATE: Since writing this, numerous donation methods have been found. So if you have some time and some spare cash. Head over to Mashable for a break down of them all.
Posted in Other
By Danny on January 6, 2010
To view .htaccess (and other) files in Transmit all you need to do is go to:
View -> Show Invisible Files
It’s that simple! The amount of times I’ve had to fall back to the terminal.

View -> Show Invisible Files
Posted in Web Development
By Danny on December 21, 2009
You will no-doubt already know that Coda, the one-window web development application for MAC, has a unique feature called “Books”. This allows you to add reference books of your choice, that you can use to help you out when you forget that all important class or function.

Coda Books
After a while of searching around the web for all the reference books I could get my hands on, I managed to accumulate 16 reference books. I’m not saying that these are the only ones available, I’m just saying that these particular ones are of great help to me on a day to day basis.
Current list:
- HTML (Standard)
- CSS (Standard)
- Javascript (Standard)
- PHP
- Apache HTTP
- Cake PHP
- CodeIgnitor
- ColdFusion
- Drupal
- Expression Engine
- HTML Dog (XHTML & CSS)
- jQuery
- Ruby on Rails
- Sitepoint CSS
- Sitepoint XHTML
- Wordpress
Not sure how to install them?
Please quit Coda before installing these books.
- Download Books.zip to your desktop and double click it
- You will now have a “Books” folder on your desktop also.
- All the contents of the “Books” folder needs to be dropped into your Coda Books folder. You can find this folder by going to:
User -> Library -> Application Support -> Coda - > Books
- Change “User” for your own login or home folder. See the image below for more info.
- Once you have moved all the sub-folders over to your Coda Books folder. Just re-launch Coda and click “Books”.

Installation Path
If you have any problems or if you think I’ve missed a really helpful book then please let me know and I’ll take a look.
Posted in Web Development