March 2009
96 posts
rediscovering the joys of simple SMS on a push button phone.
International Driving Permit : Post Offices that... →
Applying for an international driving license - only a fiver!
T-MINUS 6 days till Japan Road Trip
Dr. Dobb's | Agile on a Fixed Budget | August 3,... →
variable scope. The situation that most projects find themselves in
What You'll Wish You'd Known →
I love this school talk from paul graham, one of the Y Combinators founders. Great life lessons no matter how old you are.
#G20 going peacefully on Piccadilly
Police starting to get involved at #G20 http://twitpic.com/2j19j
Nut photo op @ #g20 http://twitpic.com/2j1ff
#g20 from the office… http://twitpic.com/2j187
The Simple Dollar » Most Time Management Is... →
productivity tips are two a penny on the net. Here are a few which have been battle tested
Discovering the killer app of adobe flex: gis mapping.
Translator - Rails i18n Simplifier - graysky →
good looking rails translation plugin
danieltenner.com — How to get a merchant account →
ooh this web2py looks nice..
Cufon works. In shock.
wondering if this blog writing lark is all its cracked up to be.
swombat's peeves at master - GitHub →
Decent looking API for Protx Server payments in Ruby
Right, sod this GUI Suvbersion rubbish, back to the command line.
turns out Versions for OSX is a turd. No way to recursivly add new files or simply: “svn add * —force”. WTF?!
I can confirm that the MacBook keyboard is not particulatly resistant to tomato soup.
Versions for mac registration thank you: “thanks, you rock!”. Great bit of ego massaging for €39.
Automatically add new files when commit - ... →
recursive add new files in subversion
themes for wp →
popcuts. buy a song. get paid everytime it sells again. Brilliant idea. http://www.popcuts.com/
I have a unhealthy obsession for mitsuya cider.
Rails Underground →
london rails conference on friday and sat in July. Looks like it may be a nice thing to do this summer!
vista FAIL. When the mac plugged into the projector, it worked. When the pc plugged in, 4 dialogue boxes. Bad at home, deadly at conferences
iphone 3.0, native tethering. brilliant, but 3 years late…
Citrix guy boring the crowd @ camb tech talk… Zzzz
oh, that’s good then: http://tinyurl.com/dx5vbe
Managed to sneak onto the Cambridge tech summary. At the “william gates” computer lab. What’s wrong with ‘bill’?
Riding to work is one of life’s pleasures. Unless you are 10 mins late, in which case it is one of it’s trials.
Instant Matcha icecream: Mix a teaspoon of matcha over vanilla icecream and stir. boom!
RT @simonw The Guardian’s new datablog is excellent: http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog
Agile Software Development: The Power of a... →
Useful post on why whiteboards are best for agile development
bike thoughts: In winter everyone smokes. In summer, only the smelly people do
pluginaweek/statemachine a massive improvement over AASM. Top dog!
gawd, he’s a machine: http://timeforsomestories.blogspot.com/
More davesecretary. http://tinyurl.com/bmdzb7 Legend.
all this chat about entrepreneurship is nice to hear. To us small business (http://bit.ly/ZaTA1) geeks it’s been a long time under the radar
AWS "sucks the air out of the room." Cuts EC2... →
Why IT should be switching over to EC2
ColorBox - customizable lightbox plugin for jQuery →
nice looking thickbox alternative
Supercomputers take over the world by 2025 →
The sort of processing “required” for human brain functional simulation will be reached by 2013. Interesting choice of words.
incidentally, davesecretary: http://www.saladon.net/stories.html
I agree, davesecretary is a literary genius. Goodbye evening.
The mosso site hurts my eyes. Can someone @mosso redesign with contrast in mind? Plz? K thx.
Gave a talk on Rails today at UNEP. It should have been about half as long, but I think we’re gonna do some projects with it!
Oh yes- the per hour useage is 3cents/hr too
1 day into my wheat and dairy fast. Feel 10 times less farty!
Oh snap. AWS offering flat rate pricing on EC2. $325/yr for a 1.7GB slice. Stiff competition for Slicehost.