July 2007
61 posts
Bug Labs (initial review) (Scripting News) →
Without thinking too much about what this is, it sounds pretty cool.
Retrevo’s “Snapshot” Graphs Products By Price And... →
Retrevo seem to be offering a slightly more fleshed out version of our textual product comparison. We could probably relatively easily pull in price to our comparison, obtaining it from retailers, SDC and maybe others.
chrisroos: Wondering if a graph of purchases over time, per product, would be a useful thing to display on reevoo? (via Twitter / chrisroos)
iTerm →
I can’t believe I’ve only just got round to playing with iTerm. Tabs are just _so_ much better than multiple windows.
chrisroos: Note to self. It’s unlikely that Em’ll see the funny side when she’s been working for 13 hours and I’ve mainly been drinking… (via Twitter / chrisroos)
chrisroos: Ahh. Migraines tend to work out OK apparently. Very sleepy eyes now… (via Twitter / chrisroos)
chrisroos: Trying to think of excuses for my good friend not to go to work tomorrow. Apparently, big companies don’t like you being honest… (via Twitter / chrisroos)
ongoing · That’s All, Then →
The Atom Publishing Protocol is now official. Great stuff. Now, if only I had the time to get round to using it…
Friday Fun: The Internet Crash of 2007 -... →
News report from the Onion about the Internet Crash of 2007! Very funny.
Why We Fight - A Film By Eugene Jarecki →
Sounds like an interesting film - mentioned by Dave Winer.
The Englishman who is leading the Tour de France*... →
Great story about an English chap cycling the tour de france route on his own (well, with his mum as support).
AdPinions: Vote for the Ads You Want →
Reminded my of an idea to essentially send your interests (or a link to your homepage that states your interests) in the http request headers. The site would then be able to display ads that I might actually be interested in…
Nobody goes swimming any more « Jon Udell →
Some cool temperature and precipitation data from NOAA. Only quickly looked at maximum temperatures file but it appears to only offer data from 1949 to 1967 for the UK (country code 651). A cool google maps mashup with global temperatures over time?
Tramp Juice →
An excellent site reviewing all the best tramp juices. “I will personally buy anybody a pint who can drink more than 6 cans of this (Carlsberg Special) brew.” Sounds like a bet I’d be willing to have a go at…
http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/symlinks/javascript/s... →
Handy list of train stations with their corresponding three digit codes.
SEO tip: Avoid keyword stuffing →
Brilliant - an seo spammer suggests that google is banning his site because, “some very important people, mainly the ones that control the pharmaceutical industry, do not want you to learn about Alex Chiu”. Yes Alex, that’s exactly why you’re banned…
chrisroos: Feeling the pain of not having kept the branch up to date with the trunk… (via Twitter / chrisroos)
Google Docs vs. the Hassle of Microsoft Office and... →
This comment encompasses exactly how I feel… “Your next step in this migration will be to have an allergic reaction whenever somebody sends you a Word document as an email attachment. It’s about as annoying as receiving a fax :-)”
chrisroos: Hacking SMS interface onto nationalrail.co.uk - http://tinyurl.com/2bwjsu (via Twitter / chrisroos)
chrisroos: Grrr. Requiring cookies for a simple search is STOOPID. Looking at you nationalrail.co.uk (via Twitter / chrisroos)
Web Development with... Safari // journal //... →
Good article, by Jon Hicks, covering web development with safari. Has info on using the Web Inspector (great, but webkit only), Safari Stand (not really found this useful) and SafariTidy (are your pages valid?)
Making Rails Go Vroom →
Great article covering the optimisation of some specific bottlenecks in the author’s rails app.
The Chicken and the Vine: Trans-Global Pair... →
Post about global pair programming. Although they’ve tried subethaedit (and gobby?) they’ve reverted to using vnc and skype. Might be worth a try, although it’d be better if both people could edit the terminal to allow for ‘one test, one implement’.
chrisroos: Safari 2 doesn’t support onload event for iframes. Strange that there’s not more information about it… (via Twitter / chrisroos)
Index of /pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases →
Previous releases of firefox (well, 1.5 and 2.x at least). Useful for testing against older versions. I’ve got 1.5 and 2.0 installed and used Profile Manager to create a profile for each. There may be a better was of doing this…
Install multiple versions of IE on your PC |... →
Wow, this actually appears to work. Tested on Win Xp Home. It installs IE 3, 4.01, 5.01, 5.5 and 6.0. This should definitely appear higher in google search results - I only came across it from a comment on another site (webmasterworld maybe)
Safari Tidy plugin →
Small, neat, plugin for Safari that uses tidy.sf.net to display (x)html warnings and errors on webpages.
SIMBL →
Used to provide ‘plugin’ functionality to Cocoa apps that don’t natively support it. Some of the Safari plugins rely on SIMBL being installed.
Drosera - WebKit - Trac →
A cool javascript debugger for webkit and Safari 3. Now, if only it worked with Safari 2, you know, the browser that is actually causing the problems…
chrisroos: Context menus being broken in the two most recent nightly builds of webkit hints at poor development practices… (via Twitter / chrisroos)
chrisroos: Overslept. 5 hours sleep instead of the anticipated 4 1/2. Tired. (via Twitter / chrisroos)
chrisroos: Looking forward to my 4 1/2 hours sleep. Zzz. (via Twitter / chrisroos)
Javascript - Object detection →
Why we should use object detection instead of browser detection. Short, simple to understand reasoning. Written by the author of ppk on javascript.
chrisroos: Am I the only one that finds facebook *really* unintuitive? I’m trying to like you fb, I really am… (via Twitter / chrisroos)
Instant indexing (Scripting News) →
“I just searched on Google for “flatdown opml” and it returned the article I wrote 15 minutes ago.” Now that’s impressive indexing.
The blogosphere risks putting off everyone but... →
A quick tutorial on screen →
Screen power tips: .screenrc →
chrisroos: Wondering if we could offer up all reevoo reviews under a creative commons attribution type license. Any reason why not? (via Twitter / chrisroos)
Google London Open Source Jam →
Really interesting looking unconference type event at google in London, where the discussion is Mobile. Free to attend but think I may already be busy. Bugger.
Epicenter - Wired Blogs →
David Weinberger interviews Richard Sambrook, Director of Global News on the BBC. Great interview covering how the BBC started to understand the web: offering up their content to others, linking to competing sources etc. Some lessons for reevoo maybe?
openmoko.com →
Hmm, now this may just be more tempting than the iPhone. Although I’d love to buy one, I’m pretty certain I’d never get round to doing anything with it. Unless people have ideas and we club together???
Synergy →
An open source software KVM-alike. Use one keyboard and mouse to control multiple, possibly different, OSes across multiple monitors. Move the mouse off the edge of one monitor and straight onto the next. Looks pretty cool. Seen on Matt Cutts’ blog.
Welcome to the KTV web site →
The best response to my aerial installation enquiries.
chrisroos: We should have a big screen in the town centre that shows streamed pictures, tweets, blog posts et al. That’d be proper cool. (via Twitter / chrisroos)
chrisroos: Just heard about prince’s free album. Excellent work. Traditional record companies are like estate agents. Entirely pointless. (via Twitter / chrisroos)
chrisroos: Ooh, I feel exposed… - http://flickr.com/photos/chrisjroos (via Twitter / chrisroos)
chrisroos: Nervously making all my flickr photos public… (via Twitter / chrisroos)
chrisroos: Spent about an hour wrestling with SED and AWK before reverting to ruby in order to save my sanity. (via Twitter / chrisroos)
chrisroos: Seeing reevoo spelt ReeVoo for the second time. Grrrrr. (via Twitter / chrisroos)