November 2010
2 posts
A Kindle for Christmas
Gran: Merry Christmas!
Little Jonny: Aw thanks Gran, your the best. *un-wraps present*
Gran: You said I'd be mad to spoil you.
Little Jonny: ... oh ... wow, a Kindle ... thanks
Gran: Is it the one you wanted dear?
Little Jonny: Yeah... it's just like the iPad I wanted. Thanks.
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Death by updates
It’s Friday night, I just want to watch a film on my (recent model) XBOX from a portable hard-drive. But I have to connect to the internet because, again it needs to use the driver it can’t store locally. Then and update, it’s 1 hour gone already and I’m still not watching a film. I just get a crappy new interface that’s meant to look like the Windows phone....
September 2010
1 post
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My first look at CouchDB
I’m about to start a new job and I’m tingling with excitement about it. Even after my first interview, I felt inspired. We talked about alternative technologies and the future of web development. When CouchDB was mentioned, I answered honestly, I hadn’t looked at it in great detail. Now having done so over the last three weeks, I think it has a lot of potential.
“the goal...
June 2010
1 post
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Magic wand: the results
Today was England’s miserable 4-2 defeat against Germany in the world cup. I certainly don’t have anything positive to say about that. But there is something to be said about positive thinking and accepting a suggestion. This really worked out for me this weekend when Reena Gagneja came to my rescue.
Whilst suffering from terrible hay-fever, I was struggling to hold myself up at a...
May 2010
3 posts
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My Environment
I loving writing via Tumblr on my iTouch. It means I can get things down whilst being “engaged” with tasks around the house. This post has been drafted in various locations over a period of around 3 weeks.
I thought I would take a moment to describe my current working environment. At work I’m using an exceptionally fast and light weight laptop on a docking station. It has virtual machines for...
April 2010
2 posts
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Habits of a Programmer
(via fuckyeahcomputerscience.tumblr.com)
A woman asks her husband, a programmer, to go shopping
Woman: Dear, please, go to the nearby grocery store to buy some bread. Also, if they have eggs, buy 6.
Man: O.K.
Twenty minutes later the husband comes back bringing 6 loaves of bread.
His wife is flabbergasted
Woman: Dear, why on earth did you buy 6 loaves of bread?
Man: They had eggs
March 2010
4 posts
Had a look at heroku.com today, looks fun to try. #git #ruby
A letter to tech support
fuckyeahcomputerscience:
ayiie:
Dear Tech Support: Last year I upgraded from Girlfriend 7.0 to Wife 1.0. I soon noticed that the new program began unexpected child processing that took up a lot of space and resources. In addition, Wife 1.0 installed itself into all other programs and now monitors all other system activity. Applications such as Poker Night 10.3, Football 5.0, HuntingAndFishing...
September 2009
1 post
Jquery input selectors
I have a had file on my desktop for months now called “must-learn.txt” I thought I would share it. Every now and then I need to select form elements. I find the following very useful, but can never remember the conventions off the top of my head.
For documentation, please see the Jquery documentation. Using the firebug console, you can test the following javascript commands on any of...
July 2009
1 post
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TinyMCE or NicEdit for CodeIgniter?
I have been writing a content management system at work using CodeIgniter. Since it will be used by many people to add content, making an editor available is essential for the system. At the time, two candidates stood out for me, both of which, I want to mention in this short post. They are:
NicEdit
TinyMCE
Whilst a decision on which editor is the best for you’re project depends entirely...
Wordpress absolute path update
I have just found a really helpful command that I can see myself using all the time. It’s too often that I need to take a copy of a development database file and update the absolute paths to use the live address. Imagine you have a .sql file that you have created by exporting a wordpress database. That can be done using the mysqldump command over the command line in Linux/Ubuntu. Now you...
June 2009
2 posts
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Wordpress site preview
Once you have finished building a Wordpress based website. Wouldn’t it be great to test it on the live website host, without interrupting any existing files or pages? This is just the kind of scenario that I have been asked about in the past. So, I have recently developed my own suggestion as to how this can be achieved.
Once your Wordpress database has been set up and all the files for the...
May 2009
1 post
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youTube data API
Google provides an API for access to video data that they host under youtube.com. It’s available from Zend, the PHP company. The package can be downloaded and used for a range of different services. I have been trying it out by pulling in a video and showing it in the sidebar.
October 2008
2 posts
Why I am being bitten my mosquitoes in the middle of rocktober?
September 2008
2 posts
Yes you can haz music →
August 2008
11 posts
To www or not to www?
“Requiring employees to type ‘WWW’ cost companies over $25 billion last year,” said ICANN representative Emil Scharnsdorf. “The average Internet surfer takes two seconds to type ‘www’ and visits 125 sites a day, add in typos like “qqq” and “ww,” then wave your hands over your head three times and you’re at $25...
I went to a party tonight and ...
I mentioned something I quite often use during a conversation about the internet. The Romans built roads, the Victorians built railways and we. Today build the information super highway [yuk - (i mean the web)] - just thought I would share that.
Fantastic word for climate change in German “klimakatastrophe”
Your no one if your not on Twitter →
In Scotland
Our holiday has got off to a great start. We pulled out of Euston on the sleeper train and checked into the overnight cabin. It was like a padding prison cell with a whole array of free-bees. In the morning we awoke to highland views of Scotland and we ate free breakfast as we wattched it all speeding past the windows. Awsome views.
My friends were not kidding we can see Ben Nevis from anywhere...
