August 2009
56 posts
stevie wonder (stviewonder) on Twitter →
Absolute genius.
more london →
What a load of shit. This makes me angry.
Hidden Google Gem: My Tracks →
I’m going to download My tracks. I didn’t know about it until this seeing this video.
Amazon.com: Uranium Ore: Electronics →
“I purchased this product 4.47 Billion Years ago and when I opened it today, it was half empty.”
Amazon.com: BIRTH CONTROL IS SINFUL IN THE... →
“WHENEVER I ACCIDENTALLY HIT THE CAPS LOCK KEY IN THE PAST, A LITTLE LIGHT WOULD COME ON. LITTLE DID I KNOW THAT LIGHT WAS JESUS TRYING TO GET AT MY BRAIN. BUT ONCE I LET HIM IN AND BURNED ALL MY…
noticings →
Lovely little game created by The Two Toms(tm). Well done chaps.
“On Rake” by John Barnette →
I didn’t know about some of these file system dependency type tasks.
Remote Diff at BarneyBlog →
Tips for diffing a local and remote file. This would be neat as a capistrano recipe.
Ted Naleid » Enabling HTTPS support in curl... →
“Protocol https not supported or disabled in libcurl” - The error I was receiving when trying to use libcurl to request some xml data from an https resource. The solution was: sudo port install curl…
Edgecase Dialog: Ruby Code Review | Engine Yard... →
I just watched the video of this session from Scotland on Rails. I enjoyed it: It reminded me of some of the things I’ve been guilty of in the past and some of the things I still see people doing…
TtLdb.jpg (JPEG Image, 491x389 pixels) →
Excellent funny.
I_KNOW_I_AM_USING_AN_OLD_AND_BUGGY_VERSION_OF_LIBXM... →
The solution here (uninstall/reinstall the nokogiri gem) worked for me (i.e. it got rid of the error above).
#221 (httpclient 2.1.5 reports loading failed for... →
I’m currently seeing this error when we run the tests in one of our projects.
What is a Munchy Box? | The 23x blog →
This would clearly be Timmy’s favourite dinner: beats a normal kebab hands down.
Welcome to PairWith.Us →
These clever fellows appear to have stolen my idea and then invented a time machine so that they could make it look like they came up with the idea first. Genius…
TextMate Blog » Keychain Access From Shell →
Quick overview on accessing the keychain from the terminal.
Converting those Egg statements to OFX (and... →
Cool. An online version of my egg to ofx conversion scripts. I was just about to start looking at those scripts again (to see whether they still work) when a google search revealed this little fella.
Hacker News | _why is no more →
This is really interesting/amusing. I hope he’s OK but I also genuinely hope he has removed all this stuff himself. It’s genius and adds to the mystery.
Salling Software - Salling Media Sync for Mac →
Software that syncs my itunes content with my G1 mobile. I’ve briefly tried it by sync’ing about 5 podcasts but it appears to work well.
Boffoonery! Comedy Benefit For Bletchley Park →
I’m going to this with fellow Headshifters.
Ryan's Scraps: What's New in Edge Rails:... →
This sounds like quite a neat addition to ActiveRecord validation: encapsulate the validation logic into a class, making it easier to re-use across models or even projects.
Capistrano recipe: update shared assets and... →
I created a similar capistrano task to download the remote database. Mine doesn’t automatically import, although that is a nice touch.
Re: [docbook-apps] Re: Message: "XPath error :... →
“XPath error : Invalid or inclomplete context”. This is the error I got when trying to get some PHP XPath magic to work on Mac OS X. I replicated the problem with xsltproc as per the post and then…
Apple - Support - Discussions - Suggestions for... →
“httpd: Syntax error on line … no suitable image found. Did find: … libphp5.so: mach-o, but wrong architecture” - This is the error I’m receiving now that I’ve re-installed php5 using macports…
Cucumber directory convention - GIANT ROBOTS... →
I’d been thinking about splitting cucumber features in a recent project. This seems to be as good a way as any to split them.
(Un)locking files in Mac OS X →
Untick the ‘locked’ flag on multiple files in OS X: “chflags -R nouchg [files]”. I think (but might be wrong) that files copied from a CD (or other read-only device) will be locked by default.
webfinger - Project Hosting on Google Code →
This seems interesting. I’ve been thinking for a while that it should be possible, given a list of my contacts, to find all their services across the web (without necessarily knowing their…
Pocket Dope: Getting song IDs from spotify URLs →
This is apparently how you encode/decode spotify URLs to Track IDs.
SpotifiTunes →
My spotified iTunes library. I thought it might’ve looked up artist/album using the spotify API and linked directly to the spotify URL. Instead it constructs spotify search URLs (e.g….
Limit quick search to current space - Confluence... →
I created a greasemonkey script to do exactly this.
Wondering who authorised the timetable change without consulting old chris first.
NORTHERN FOLK TERRIFIED BY ANGRY SKY MAGIC - The... →
This is absolute genius. “A Home Office spokesman said: “Their natural reaction is to phone 999 as most Northerners believe the sky to be no more than 30ft high.”
Web design Q&A - Doctype →
A stackoverflow clone (as far as I can tell it’s not the same codebase) devoted purely to html/css questions. Has the potential to be useful. I heard about it from a marketing email from…
Jesper Särnesjö » GreenStripes: Ruby bindings for... →
Ruby bindings for the spotify API. I haven’t tried these.
Decode Spotify URIs →
A service to decode spotify URIs. Not sure how this works, although I guess they’ll be using the spotify API.
delicious blog » Sharing Made Easier: Email and... →
The post that covers the new sharing functionality of the delicious firefox extension. I was particularly interested in the url shortening but that appears to be happening server side (I’ve had a dig…
despotify - the open source Spotify client library →
Open source spotify client. I haven’t tried it but am impressed with some of the answers in their FAQ.
Wondering why bank websites restrict the number of previous statements available online. Money making as they charge for old paper copies?
tr.im your URLs →
“We regret that it came to this, but all of our efforts to avoid it failed. No business we approached wanted to purchase tr.im for even a minor amount.
There is no way for us to monetize URL…
incoming-links macro - Atlassian Confluence Wiki... →
Confluence macro mentioned by Imran that allows me to display a list of incoming links to a wiki page. The alternative is to hit Tools > Info and look for the Incoming links section on that page.
Council for Secular Humanism →
It wouldn’t surprise me if this was true (George Bush claiming “that Iraq must be invaded to thwart Gog and Magog, the Bibleâs satanic agents of the Apocalypse.”) but the complete lack of…
Fitness →
This post links to the activeplaces.com website, although it would appear that they’ve copied a large chunk of bbc content (all links are bbc.co.uk, including the redirect out to activeplaces) and…
how to avoid ads in gmail →
This is fairly interesting. Google appears to err on the side of caution when deciding which ads to display alongside an email in gmail. Inserting words relating to tragic events (e.g “suicide death…
Tday 2009 - London 20th of September -... →
Andrea’s human tetris thingy. Near the Mayor’s office/Tower bridge on 20th Sep 2009.
Tea-Driven Development :: Debug Pair Programming... →
I’m going to see Matt give his talk on Debugging pair programming.
Tea-Driven Development :: PartialDebugger Plug-in... →
I haven’t tried this but it certainly looks as though it could be useful. It’ll show you which partial rendered a bit of html in a rails project.
UK Trains →
National rail have asked these guys to take down their iphone app (similar to me being asked to turn off my twitter service).
Newspaper Club - Day 41 – Closed for August →
“When we signed up for this merry ride we agreed that weâd have something built in 60 working days from commencement. However, we also stipulated that there are no working days in August. Weâre…
Twatter: What the FUCK are you doing? →
“Twatter is a service for twats who think other people give a fuck about the small twattish, mundane detail of their sad, socially impotent lives or who simply believe that what they have to say…
Increase your Twitter followers by... →
“What? Eleventy-billion is totally a real number. Trust us - we’re Certified Web 2.0 Social Media Guru Expert Maven Coaches. We’ve done ALL the work for you! We’ve spent WEEKS becoming experts in…