Archive
June 2008
May 2008
- Stupid UNIX (shell) tricks
- A bunch of productivity tricks for the UNIX shell.
- Top (App Engine) Tip
- If you can’t work out why your administrators aren’t, this is why.
- Google-love (and some Jam)
- Why I love (working at) Google, and a bit about tonight’s OSJam.
April 2008
- MySQL JDBC debugging: dumpMetadataOnColumnNotFound doesn’t
- MySQL’s documentation confounds me again.
- Hosting Jam
- Porting the Open Source Jam signup application to the Google App Engine.
- Picasa Web Albums, meet Gears
- Picasa Web Albums goes offline.
February 2008
- But still no flying cars…
- I’m living in the future, but it’s all beyond me.
December 2007
- Security by email address
- Authentication by forgetting your password.
- std::verbosity
- Functional programming with the C++ STL: bad idea.
- Google Chart API
- Google’s chart API is publicly-accessible, and darn cool.
- µ-posts
- A few little updatelets.
November 2007
- Phone tip: Quick access to your browser
- How to quickly access your browser on a Symbian Series 60 phone.
- The new shiny
- I got myself a new phone.
October 2007
- Random links
- A collection of links.
- The quickest calculator
- Every browser window you have open is a calculator.
- Tricky Preprocessors
- Weirdness in the C preprocessor.
- Jam[5]
- The sixth Google London Open Source Jam: Web web web web web.
August 2007
- Searching for Evil
- Ross Anderson’s talk about evil malefactors on the internet.
- Hello, world
- Baby pictures — ahh, cute!
July 2007
- Irony (and videos)
- On not Getting Things Done.
- Why Safari, not Firefox?
- Why I use Safari on OS X.
- iPhone
- (An) iPhone has escaped from the US, and it’s trapped in London!
- Wikipedia… to the future!
- Is everything you know already in Wikipedia? No problem! Document the future!
June 2007
- Delayed Delivery
- or, how I stopped worrying and learned to love MythTV.
- Do. No. Evil.
- Google is people too.
- Shrek 3
- Musings on Shrek 3, catenary curves, and being treated like a thief in the cinema.
- Random links
- A collection of links I’ve enjoyed recently.
May 2007
- Google Gears
- Offline web applications, now.
- I CAN HAS STDIO?
- lolcats + code = …
- Jam!
- That is, the Google London Open Source Jam.
- MySQL is clinically insane
- When is a NULL not a NULL? When it’s MySQL!
- mod_dav_svn improvements: SVNActivitiesDB
- What’s SVNActivitiesDB, and why would you use it?
- Google’s brand recognition
- Google has fantastic brand penetration. Here’s how I know.
- “The great thing about standards…
- Wiring standards are almost as interesting as computer standards. No, really!
April 2007
- Tree-structured FSFS repositories
- More than you ever wanted to know about Subversion 1.5 FSFS filesystems.
- London Tube Journey Planner
- A nice, simple Google Maps-based tube journey planner.
- Firefox add-on woes
- Two extension problems, two extension solutions.
- Weekend links
- This weekend’s browsing, an excerpt.
- Designing for the blind
- Or, “Googlebot doesn’t belong here”.
March 2007
- Microsoft Office hates me
- Microsoft really don’t want me to test out Office for Mac.
- The Omnipotent Google Toolbar
- The Google Toolbar knows all.
- WHATWG — much unread email
- Web Forms 2. It rocks.
- fitz and sussman’s “Poisonous People” talk
- Watch this video.
- OMGWTFBBQ
- More later.
- Random things I learnt while in the US
- Mostly car-related, actually.
- Backing up FSFS repositories, Subversion 1.5 style
- We’ve made some improvements to help repository admins back up their FSFS repositories.
- Just how big is Subversion anyway?
- An analysis of Subversion’s codebase. With graphs.
- The Psychology of Security
- Thoughts about airport security and Bruce Schneier’s essay.
- Empires
- The Imperial History of the Middle East, in 90 seconds.
February 2007
- Digital Drawing
- Drawing on whiteboards is so passé, don’t you think?
- Perdido Street Station
- A review of China Miéville’s Perdido Street Station. I liked it.
- Ceci n’est pas une entrée de blog
- ObFirstPost.