Tim's questions

With any version of Ubuntu I try it seems that I have an issue with wifi.

Try as I might, I cannot make the wifi stay connected. I have since installed iwScanner and I can see that my wifi network is on a different channel to the others in range. I can also see a signal strength of about -60 consistently except every minute or so (sometimes as often as 10seconds apart) it drops to -100 or essentially nothing.

If I boot the same machine into Windows 7 it seems to work okay, other laptops seem to work okay.

It is a Linksys WUSB54GC v.3 which seems according to the community docs to be supported. I am not really that far away from the router and besides my mobile phone connects to the wifi network fine from the same distance.

The router is getting old so I had considered maybe it was a problem with the router (Draytek) but then I should have issues with the other machines.

Network is not broadcasting its SSID and is using WPA2

Edit

Also the dropouts to -100 signal are much more frequent when I try to connect to the network using network manager. Every ~2 seconds consistently.

When developing an application for a Windows system, there is a registry entry you can make on the client machine that sets a 'protocol handler' in the system. In the same way that mailto links work you can have it launch your application when a specific url (ie. myapp:) is put into a web browser address bar.

This registry entry seems to work for the common browsers and does not require specific setup for each possible browser.

I have in the past, set a custom protocol handler in Firefox on Linux however... I was wondering if there was a way to do it system wide so that it would work the same for Chromium, etc as well?

I have been developing in the windows space with Visual Studio for a while now with work, but I have also been using Ubuntu for a while and am keen to get into some software development for linux.

I should also note. I am not looking for .NET and I am aware of mono. I am also familiar with c++ development and some python, so the language isn't so much relevant as the "all in one" aspect.

I was interested to know if there is a useful all in one code/debug/design(gui) IDE similar to something like Visual Studio but for linux?