January 2009
150 posts
Digging through the SDB php code in an attempt to figure out why my ruby alternative isn’t working.
post past :: james murty » Blog Archive » AWS... →
Amazon AWS Signature generation v2, in ruby. Doesn’t appear to work for me though.
Trying to work out which ruby library I should use to access Amazon Simple DB.
nytimes's amazon_sdb-0.5.5 Documentation →
Ruby wrapper around the Amazon Simple DB service from the NY Times. Appears to be out of date based on the signature version (1 in code, 2 on Amazon site)
RightAws Ruby gem now supports Amazon SDB «... →
I haven’t tried this but I suspect it might be more complicated than I need: it seems to cover all the Amazon services rather than just SDB
RubyForge: Amazon Simple Database (SDB) Ruby API:... →
Only installs as a gem (why do some authors insist on hiding the SCM tab!?) and completely lacks documentation.
Wondering what’s caused every Google search result to warn about malware - http://www.flickr.com/photos/chrisjroos/3241494006/
Having a very frustrating conversation with Lloyds TSB
Watching the last castle.
Heading home
Chaplain to ward off hospital ghost in Derby |... →
“A ghost that may be similar to the one haunting Derby’s new hospital”. He he he.
JSAN - Home →
Javascript equivalent to CPAN (for perl). Mentioned in the O’Reilly Javascript book.
TrimPath - open source rich web applications and... →
Mentioned as the inspiration for a javascript breakpoint function in the O’Reilly Javascript book.
⌘C ⌘V Character →
Copy and paste ‘unusual’ characters and optionally display the corresponding html entity.
MF Bliki: SemanticDiffusion →
Interesting article on how popular words start to mean different things to different people as they pass through a chain of chinese whispers. I think this happened to me recently when a friend asked…
apenwarr - Business is Programming →
Storing Windows under version control is something I’ve thought about, and possibly noted somewhere, before. Very cool.
Mistaeks I Hav Made: Complaining about Other... →
I’ve definitely witnessed this from both sides too. I’m just not 100% convinced it can be explained by the Dunning-Kruger effect: I have no evidence either way for that conviction though.
MF Bliki: FlaccidScrum →
I’ve never looked at Scrum closely but always assumed it was very similar to XP. It appears to make a conscious decision to ignore the technical practices of XP which have apparently led to problems…
» twidroid - the twitter & identi.ca client... →
The twitter client I’m using on my G1.
a work on process » Tracking Heathrow with twitter →
Coverage of the Heathrow tower twitter bot by James Stewart.
The Madstop » Opscode announces Chef, a Puppet... →
Coverage of the Chef launch by the author of Puppet.
Skim reading “Javascript: the definitive guide”.
MDB Viewer Plus →
I used this instead of MS Access (because I don’t have that) to administer (truncate all the data) an old Access database.
Trying to get a very very old VB6 project working and committed to SVN. Happy happy joy joy.
Multicolr Search Lab - Idée Inc. →
This is a brilliant way of exploring images from flickr - search by colour.
#1785 ([PATCH] has_and_belongs_to_many should not... →
I’m pretty certain this is the problem I came across recently (timestamps from the join table were being used in preference to the timestamps in the model). Hmm, it appears to have been reported 4…
$ cheat git →
Git cheat sheet
Temporally Relevant - Web Search Experiment:... →
I mentioned this to Jame last night. Jeremy (the jabber creator) was intending to create a startup and document the process in an attempt to make some money. I paid the $5 for the ebook (that I’ve…
Granting people poetic license to finish my last tweet as they wish, after my keyboard skills deserted me just before my android battery did
On the train home after a good night watching 2
Heading to meet @lazyatom in the hope that we can get in to see Ben Goldacre at the LSE
Chef vs. Puppet | Junglist Generation →
One of the Chef authors explains why they decided to create a competitor to Puppet rather than contributing back to the original
Home - Chef - Opscode Open Source Wiki →
Homepage of the Chef system management configuration magic tool thingy.
opscode's chef at master - GitHub →
This appears to be an alternative to puppet
Re: Automatic timestamping in join tables [596]:... →
Seems to be asking for join tables to automatically have timestamps. Don’t do it - it doesn’t do what you’d expect.
Project Gutenberg - Wikipedia, the free... →
Wikipedia overview of Project Gutenberg
Main Page - Gutenberg →
A collection of free (or at least out of copyright in the United States) books. I’m surprised that I don’t remember having seen this before.
The Third Wave - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia →
I just heard about this on the No Agenda podcast. It sounds pretty incredible.
SEOmoz | The Best Spam Submission Ever →
How to sell on ebay. Useful tutorial.
Spring cleaning my google code repository
Douglas F Shearer :: Weblog :: GMail SMTP with... →
Supposedly allows you to send email via GMail’s SMTP servers from your Rails app. Didn’t work for me.
Rob Seaman Adding Gmail SSL SMTP Support to Rails →
The plugin mentioned in this article got me up and running with sending email from my rails app via google’s smtp servers.
HTTP Client - Mac Developer Tool for HTTP... →
A really neat little Mac application for HTTP debugging. Basically a GUI version of cURL. From the author of fluid.app.
Testing Software for Web Professionals - Litmus →
Web based application to test html designs in various browsers, email clients and against spam filters. There’s a limited (by the number of times you can use it per month and the platforms you can…
Dr Nic » What is *jour and why they are killer... →
Wow, I really wasn’t aware of any of this *jour goodness. Sounds cool.
Here Comes Everybody: how change happens when... →
Clay Shirky at the LSE
Home | Email Standards Project →
A very commendable project: attempting to bring some kind of consistency to html rendering in email clients.
How to Code HTML Email Newsletters [HTML & XHTML... →
This appears to offer fairly comprehensive advice on what you need to do to get html emails displaying correctly in the majority of email clients.
dabr.co.uk - Login →
Alternative mobile twitter client.
Meet-O-Matic: The World's Simplest Meeting... →
Another app that allows you organise datetimes to meet