March 2009
82 posts
Mozilla Labs » Bespin →
This is the in-browser code editor I mentioned James.
Community Live - Hack The Government Day - The H... →
Never heard of this site before but it’s done a fairly good job of covering the Rewired State event.
Going for a swim, then paintballing, then beer.
Sport England East Blog →
Sport England ‘blog’. If by blog you mean monthly newsletters, of course.
Managed to get the washing in just before it start raining. Chris 1. God 0.
Eating sunday’s bbq left overs. Not sure how long meat lasts in the fridge but it looks/tastes ok.
Monument: Home →
Awesome 360 degree webcam/art project in London.
Nailey Cottages - Accommodation →
The cottages that Amit mentioned he’d stayed in.
Noah Stokes →
Awesome front end developer
devonwindmills.co.uk →
The windmill windy adams stayed in.
Broadcast options 13-03-09 →
So this is the press release that the local paper appear to be quoting when they mention that the cost of broadcasting council meetings is too high. Now, I wonder if I can get hold of the actual…
Just added myself to http://chrisisfreakingawesome.com twitter directory under: #chris #is #freaking #awesome #dot #com
Active Places & Active Places Power →
Explanation of the relationship between ActivePlaces and ActivePlacesPower from Sport England.
Active Places Power →
From the creators of ActivePlaces comes…. Da da da da. ActivePlacesPower. Boom.
Feeling surprisingly awake as I head to the pool.
Centos 5.2 x86_64 install issues - Phusion... →
This appears to be the problem I’m having when trying to upgrade to Passenger 2.1.2.
Heading home after dinner with @floehopper
Being delayed at the first stop on this route. That’s promising.
Preparing for our mother’s day bbq.
Wondering when the hsbc website is going to re-appear (it’s been down for at least 3 hours now by my anecdotal observations)
Feeling uncomfortably full after a huge pork and sausage sandwich (for £7 goddamn quid). And a cookie.
Giving up on unsubscribing from emails (I used to play nice). Now it’s the gmail spam button all the way.
Apparently my brother just saw the google streetcar in Ramsgate
Nabble - CruiseControl.rb - Development - [PATCH]... →
Launchd script to get cruisecontrolrb running at startup on Mac OS X.
Sitting on a train out of euston heading toward milton keynes for some snow fun.
Received a free whitepaper titled “dark art of spam” from computerweekly. It’s suddenly clear why I haven’t been able to unsub from them.
Generic SOAP Client →
Torchbox pointed this out. A web based SOAP client that creates a form based on a wsdl file.
Wandering to the @rewiredstate breakfast
Heading to skeptics in the pub
Sitting on the wrong goddam train. I now have a 2 1/2 hour journey instead of just under 2 hours. Grrrr.
Developers' area | Transport for London →
TfL data for developers. Splendid.
Rewired State | Google Groups →
Does what it says in the title
The NeoCube →
Excellent little magnets
Fakemail is an SMTP gateway replacement to make... →
An alternative to mailtrap maybe?
Official Google Reader Blog: Google Reader is your... →
Hmm, yet another place to comment on stuff. Me not likey.
YouTube - extreme cross country skiing →
Footage of James M’s latest skiing trip :-)
Free Our Data: the blog » Blog Archive » In the... →
Genius. Government are going to spend an awful lot of cash recreating an address database, only to use it and then delete it.
BackTweets →
Appears to let you search for tweets containing urls. I assume it must somehow search for shortened urls, otherwise I don’t know why you wouldn’t just use twitter search.
Streetwise Maps →
The online service I used to get the correct scale maps for our conservatory planning application.
Sci-Fi Hi-Fi: Cocoalicious →
Just tried this delicious client. It doesn’t appear to work anymore.
Rewired State: A couple of days later… «... →
Brian’s post on the directgov innovate blog about rewiredstate, including a mention of our activeplaces project.
scie.nti.st » Hosting Git repositories, The Easy... →
Gitosis - used for managing git repos apparently (it’s what we have at headshift)
Brandon Aaron : jQuery, Rails, and AJAX →
This post mentions emitting the rails authenticity token into a javascript variable in the generated html so that we can ajaxificate standard rails’ forms.
Brandon Aaron : Unobtrusive Destroy Links in Rails... →
Nice method to progressively enhance ‘delete’ links to make them POST with a XmlHttpRequest
Open Tech 2009 - 4th July in London. →
It was good last year. I think I’ll go again.
Our Active Places 'hack' at RewiredState →
The presentation of our Rewired State Active Places project.
Giving lrug a miss because I’m knackered
PostBin - Debug web hooks →
A neat little tool that stores POST requests in a postbin so that you can inspect the body of the request.
Rewired State: oh that was very good (updated with... →
Emma’s (one of the organisers) take on rewiredstate
Heading home to ramsgate. Weekend engineering works mean I should get in at about midday. Excellent.