February 2009
76 posts
Wondering how much damage I’ve done after executing sudo rm -rf /var/db instead of sudo rm -rf /var/db/mysql
Preparing to deploy my brand spanking new, world beating application. Well, it’s new at least. An it is an application.
Wondering why AIM keeps telling me I’ve signed into another location. I really haven’t.
Atlas - 280 North →
It’s VB, but for the web…
Watching my G1 reset itself for the third time today.
Strange behaviour of respond_to in IE « Ruby,... →
I just ran into this problem with respond_to and wants.js in Internet Explorer.
Buying Invaders Must Die because @bensmithuk told me to.
Admiring the pretty html that browsers have the pleasure of interpreting in order to render my site. Thanks haml.
Unit Interactive :: Labs :: Unit PNG Fix →
I take it back. The fix does work. It was IE within CrossOver on the Mac that was causing the problem.
The javascript fix for transparent pngs in IE6. Doesn’t work for me - it hides all png images…
Pre tags and html escaping/ruby evaluation - Haml... →
Question to the haml list about html escaping and ruby evaluation.
TDD - it’s all about the concrete. — Techbelly →
Excellent post Mr Griffiths
Nursing the finger that I fear may be broken.
Heading to canterbury to drink beer in the sun.
Starting the migration of my blog from erb to haml
Heading off to meet @hlame and @lazyatom
In bed after a good night solving world problems with @beng at the skeptics meet
Heading to Skeptics in the pub
Heading to bournemouth for a stag weekend
Smiling at the number of people that just couldn’t resist clicking - http://tinyurl.com/bmxwlu
Taps for Easy Database Transfers →
A database agnostic export/import solution. Seems like a neat idea but I wonder how suitable it’d be for really large sets of data.
Free the postcode now! All you need is an iPhone |... →
An iphone app to help free the postcode data.
Glowing Cities Under a Nighttime Sky on Flickr -... →
An excellent time-lapse video of glowing cities seen from a night flight.
Clearance: Rails authentication for developers who... →
An alternative authentication plugin for Rails (from the thoughtbot guys).
Continuous Deployment at IMVU: Doing the... →
A great article explaining what’s possible when you have confidence in the code and automated checks to alert you of deployment problems.
Sitting on the train home (you know, the one I failed to get yesterday). Free our data debate was ok. Hack space in sam smiths pub == good.
Trying to dry off/warm up now that I’m home after my 2 tube, 2 train, 30 min wait in rain, one bus and 10 min walk to get here.
Hmmm. Now at wimbledon to find that my connection’s been cancelled. Best go find a late night offy and a bench.
Sitting at clapham junction having missed my last direct train. Happy happy joy joy.
Heading to lrug
Odd error after Rails 2.0.2 > 2.1 - Paperclip... →
The problem I’m currently seeing with paperclip and an AR model called Attachment.
Town of Ramsgate, Wapping, London, E1W 2PN - pub... →
I live here! Well, not in the pub, but in the town the pub’s named after. An it’s close to work. Must visit.
Mike’s Musings » Operator User Scripts →
An overview of operator user scripts, with links to articles about creating scripts and links to scripts too.
#17293 (ncursesw-5.7.0 Activation defect) –... →
I ran into this problem when trying to install ImageMagick. Although it’s still not completely finished installed, the force method (activate -f) appears to have done the trick.
Playing around with the Android SDK
Simone Brunozzi →
The Amazon AWS evangelist that spoke at last night’s Amazon AWS meetup
amCharts: flash charts, stock charting software →
Another flash chart solution.
Cohesive Flexible Technologies - Custom Stacks for... →
The organiser of last night’s Amazon AWS meetup at Skillsmatter
Sigurd Høgsbro →
The CTO of museeka.
Museeka - your link to music →
I spoke to this chap at the AWS meetup last night. The service, although unlaunched, sounds kinda interesting.
Heading to the Amazon Web Services meetup at Skills Matter
Signal Wiki - About →
The wiki software that appears to be present in one of our projects.
Pat Maddox - User stories with RSpec's Story... →
Introduction to rspec story runner (now cucumber).
Google Latitude →
Once again Google have copied what I asked for, and once again they’ve used their time machine to go back and do it so that it looks like they thought of the idea first. (I wanted this when I was…
Cucumber - Making BDD fun →
OK, so this is the homepage of that cucumber library on github.
aslakhellesoy's cucumber at master - GitHub →
We appear to be using this (or possibly its predecessor rspec story runner) in some of our projects.
Running late. Train and passenger problems apparently.
Heading to the office
Attempting to give some books away - http://tinyurl.com/cl4xla
Remote pair-programming using iChat | the blog of... →
Luke describes the good experience he’s had remote pairing with James.
OAuth — An open protocol to allow secure API... →
Apparently version 2 of the amazon request signing protocol is very similar to the oauth spec.