May 2009
38 posts
News Sniffer →
This is brilliant. It lets you see diffs between versions of news articles published on a couple of news sites (e.g. the BBC news site and the Guardian). Ben used it to show an article update that…
Google Rotated →
I haven’t looked at how it works but if you open this in IE 6 (I checked in Parallels) then you’ll see that the page is rotated. I suspect magic to be involved somewhere.
corey - Javascript Snacks, Nibble #1: RTE/WYSIWYG... →
Awesome in-page html editing that’s apparently been around since IE 5.5! I’d love to see a cross-browser library thing that makes it simple to implement this instead of the traditional…
Simple EXIF Viewer for Mac OS X →
Utility to view EXIF information stored within images.
Sweating. A lot.
Mac OS X 10.4: Rotated images do not appear... →
Ahh, so this is why rotating images in Preview doesn’t actually rotate them (resulting in them not appearing rotated in, for example, flickr). To rotate them, with possible image quality loss, you…
adzap's cronos at master - GitHub →
A little ruby tool/dsl that generates cron intervals for use within crontabs. It doesn’t generate the crontab itself.
CronWTF! →
A neat javascript tool that converts the crazy crontab syntax into English.
javan's whenever at master - GitHub →
“Whenever is a Ruby gem that provides a clear syntax for defining cron jobs. It outputs valid cron syntax and can even write your crontab file for you. It is designed to work well with Rails…
Orca - GNOME Live! →
This could be useful for testing the accessibility of websites, although I guess it’ll require a linux install of some kind…
Preparing to leave for a weekend of camping in snowdon. We appear to be taking enough supplies for a year though…
SSL/TLS Strong Encryption: FAQ - Apache HTTP... →
Instructions for creating a self-signed SSL certificate for local testing of Apache SSL.
Usnow is a great film. And clay shirky looks like tom hanks.
Watching the usnow film on the train home.
That’s weird. I just received my first comment (disqus) to public-swimming-pools.co.uk right after I removed the site from the web.
Removing google analytics from my sites.
VirtualBox →
An opensource alternative to Parallels maybe (I haven’t tried it).
Snipt - melzz - uninstall all ruby gems | Share... →
Useful little script to uninstall all rubygems (copied below in case the page disappears). GEMS=`gem list —no-versions`
for x in $GEMS ; do sudo gem uninstall $x; done
micha's resty at master - GitHub →
A little bash wrapper around curl that makes it slightly easier to interact with RESTful services.
Uninstalling gems from .gem directory →
James explains how to uninstall gems that are installed in ~/.gems. I ran into this problem this morning.
martinbtt's net-http-spy at master - GitHub →
A useful tool for inspecting http requests/responses within your ruby code.
jim.pflegerbaum.com » rspec →
I ran into this problem (No route matches {:action=>”update”}) when using rspec to spec my edit form view. The solution was to use :url => xxx_path(xxx) instead of :url => {:action => ‘update’}.
TBUZZ | An Arc90 Project →
Share urls using twitter. I’m not sure I’ll use it but I like the approach - a cross-browser bookmarklet that displays a pop-up for you to post to twitter. Apparently it shows other mentions of the…
Just noticed that the hsbc ofx export appears to be fixed. There’s probably a thank you note winging its way to me right now…
rsl's skinny_spec at master - GitHub →
Some rspec macros. Not sure I’m going to use these.
StikiPad - When software in the cloud goes sour |... →
Ha. I just went to visit stikipad to see what data I had left there (I know I had some) only to be greeted with a domain squating page. It looks like they just silently disappeared. Nice work guys.
carlosbrando's remarkable at master - GitHub →
Some more rspec macros.
Writing Macros in RSpec • Blog Archive • Ben Mabey →
An introduction to writing rspec macros. I’m not sure why but something grates me about the use of do_get, do_put et al.
Is there an html link rel value that says, “I used to live over there” (e.g. link rel=”previouslocation”)?
BadAPI →
I’ve definitely hacked together my own little web servers that wait a certain amount of time or return canned responses in the past. If I understand correctly, I should be able to use this in their…
HTML Forms: The Right Way(s) | Raleigh Web Design... →
I’ve never thought of/come across wrapping form labels and inputs within dt and dd respectively.
BBC NEWS | Programmes | Newsnight | Stephen Fry... →
Ignoring the matter of expenses themselves, I think the best quote, in response to something like “…surely this will deter people from voting”, is Stephen Fry’s “Only because you keep saying so…”
Missing the london hack thingy on account of bumping into an old school friend last night, getting drunk and over sleeping. Oops.
Multiple Classes - css-discuss →
“Internet Explorer (Win/6, Mac/5.x): broken. The multiple selector will select every element with the last class in the selector (order in the selector is important, order of the classes in the HTML…
Oguz Karadeniz! GreaseMonkey script for... →
I was thinking about writing something very similar when I came across this. It uses greasemonkey to display the delicious tagometer on every page. Neat.
The Thing About Git →
I don’t remember having this problem. I tend to look at local changes before changing code and either store them, delete them or finish/commit them before starting something new. It kinda feels like…
RMagick Installation FAQ →
This explained the problem I was seeing on our production rails box with ImageMagick not being able to find the fonts it required.
mutle's webrat at master - GitHub →
I’ve just started using this version of webrat in a project as it allows me to work with subdomains in cucumber features.