April 2009
69 posts
VMware Communities: Installing Microsoft's IE... →
Guide to converting the Microsoft supplied VPC IE testing images to VMWare.
#168 Redirects in Rails 2.3 not being followed by... →
This could be the problem I’m seeing but I’m not 100% sure…
Pencil :: Firefox Add-ons →
A neat sketching application that’s provided as a firefox extension. It looks quite nice but seems more suited to sketching desktop apps.
About - cufon - GitHub →
Alternative to sifr, mentioned by Dan Webb. I haven’t tried this but I really don’t like sifr.
Balsamiq Studios, makers of plugins for Web Office... →
I’m very impressed by the ease of use and quality of output of the online demo. The output looks intentionally sketchy in an attempt to avoid the ‘it looks nearly done’ problem.
Playing with Balsamiq mockups (http://www.balsamiq.com/) - very impressive stuff
How to do Basecamp-style subdomains in Rails -... →
The interesting thing is that request.subdomains takes a parameter which is the number of tld to ignore (so, use 2 for .co.uk for example).
gist: 100503 - GitHub →
IO (the language) in ruby. Neat.
facebooker-1.0.29 Documentation →
slight paranoia: A Remote Vulnerability in Firefox... →
An overview of the potential security implications of non-secure update urls in firefox extensions.
Application Versions :: Firefox Add-ons →
List of valid firefox (and more) application versions. Useful for extension development.
Sitting in the sun and trying to upload my firefox extensions to addons.mozilla.org
tog →
“Tog is a non-intrusive, extensible open source platform that helps you to add social network features to your Ruby on Rails apps.” Similar to community engine I guess. I haven’t tried this.
insoshi's insoshi at master - GitHub →
Another social network rails app. I guess this is similar to lovd by less.
Community Engine | A Social Networking Plugin for... →
“A Social Networking Plugin for Ruby on Rails”. I also worry about plugins that try to do quite this much. I guess it still has possibilities though.
Lovd By Less -- Open Source Social Network -- Who... →
Another social network rails thing. This appears to be slightly different to tog and community engine in that this appears to be a full rails app that you download and then customise (maybe).
Foundation Trust Governors' Association →
One of the Kings Fund networks.
King's Fund - WSD Action Network →
One of the Kings Fund networks.
One North East - Grant for Research and... →
The business grant agency thing for up t’north that James mentioned.
Just pulling into ramsgate after a pretty lengthy journey home.
Eating fried breakfast. The perfect food for a hot day.
Eating yellow chunks of nightmare and biscuits.
Lifehacker - Geek to Live: Fifteen Firefox Quick... →
I didn’t know about the “Add a keyword for this search” option in firefox (allows you to create a shortcut to different search providers).
ø Search The Current Site - A Firefox Extension |... →
A firefox extension that hacks the firefox search box and adds a ‘search engine’ called Current site that uses google to search the current site. I haven’t tried this but if it works then it might be…
Mailtrap →
Utility that speaks just enough smtp to be useful for testing the sending of emails through actionmailer.
Room 117: A FireFox Hack: Search the current site... →
How to hack some of the components of firefox itself to allow you to add site:this in the google search box in order to search the current site. It might be neat but I don’t like the idea of playing…
Heading to the coding dojo at skills matter.
Sitting on the last train back to sutton. I’m sure (although I have no proof) that it must be possible to leave before the last minute.
Registering for tonight’s coding dojo at skills matter - http://tinyurl.com/dcazae
James Welch - LinkedIn →
The good SEO guy we saw at Reevoo (he was working at Just Search at the time).
Just Search » Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) »... →
One of the SEO consultancies we used at Reevoo.
Chris 1. Ticket office lady 0. In other news. Cab driver 25. Chris -25.
Hoping that a swim will wash away the taste of beer.
Sitting on a train south. Sutton can’t be far from here.
Preparing for a fun game of “let’s see if chris can get home”. The lady at the ticket office said there weren’t any trains going to sutton.
Extensions.checkUpdateSecurity - MozillaZine... →
The setting I’m using to disable the secure update check while developing my delicious extension add-ons.
Commit 63aac338332a06d3c9e28dde7954679703ec7620 to... →
The commit to rails that allows you to mass-assign updated_at and updated_on (you could always mass-assign created_at/created_on).
Automatically generated timestamps and attribute... →
The post to the rails security list about the mass assignable timestamps (created_at, updated_at et al)
#1612 Can't create AR models with custom... →
The rails lighthouse ticket that led to the commit that subsequently allows you to mass assign updated_at and updated_on.
A Rails Security Flaw - Destroying The Audit Trail... →
Alex’s post about the potential rails problem with created_at and updated_at being mass assignable.
Rail Spikes: 10 Cool Things in Rails 2.3 →
Coverage of the ability to update created_at and updated_at in rails 2.3
Swimming plans thwarted by a pool full of kids
Braving the rain to go to the pool for a little lunchtime swim
flip's - development, emo music, webdesign and... →
How to test http basic auth in a rails controller test. You can actually amend this slightly and get rails to do the encoding for you: request.env[“HTTP_AUTHORIZATION”] =…
The London Android Group. (London) - Meetup.com →
The meetup group for the London Android developer group
Canonical Url Generation and Insertion for... →
Greasemonkey script that generates the canonical url for certain websites and inserts a link rel=canonical element into the page with that url.
Hans Rosling shows the best stats you've ever seen... →
http://www.kaply.com/weblog/wp-content/uploads/2007... →
The operator extension that provides a link to all urls in a hcard
Heading to the Android meetup at Skills Matter.
Stephen Ladyman, South Thanet – HearFromYourMP →
Stephen Ladyman on hearfromyourmp.