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Recent posts
Look At Your Data - John Rauser
While I couldn’t make it to this year’s O’Reilly Velocity 2011 I’m excited so the videos are available to watch for free. My favourite talk from last year wa...
Lost Dogs Home Can’t Justify Their Killing
[Update] Kate Hoelter is not among the more than 550 people who have Like’d this post on Facebook! We’re still waiting for her to come back with a figure for...
Rails Web API Versioning
[2013-12-18 Why was so I attracted to the idea of versioning web APIs? I’ve never needed this.]
It’s lucky Qantas don’t design planes
I’m glad Qantas don’t design planes because frankly I don’t think they would fly.
BlinkSale - How To Say Goodbye
What do you do when you want to stop using a service but it’s going to be a lot of effort to extract your data? Write a script to do it of course!
How to find new music
[2013-12-18 Shankly disappeared in Feb 2012. I currently use Spotify]
Slicehost RIP
2013-12-19 Linode offers a great service with 1GB RAM VPS for $20/month
host@home: Setting Up Your Network
[2013-12-19 I’m not currently hosting @ home but Snowden leaks have made me rethink]
SSH compression can slow you down
Repost from my old blog
Wired to Care - Will Neuroscience Prove Jesus Right?
Humans, like the apes we evolved from, are social creatures. Cooperation has given survival advantages to our species. One interesting aspect of our wiring i...
How To Loose Your Customer Base
Yes, the misspelling in the title is deliberate. See image below.
JSON in your Web Browser
Web browsers don’t tend to display JSON very nicely. See how yours does with this example. Some handy plugins that help with this. While they currently only ...
JSON with Ruby and Rails
JSON is a beautiful format for storing objects as human readable text. It’s succeeded where XML has failed. Not only is it not shit, it’s actually quite good...
JSON from Javascript
JSON is a beautiful format for storing objects as human readable text. It’s succeeded where XML has failed. Not only is it not shit, it’s actually quite good...
JSON from the Command Line
JSON is a beautiful format for storing objects as human readable text. It’s succeeded where XML has failed. Not only is it not shit, it’s actually quite good...
Fixing Chef’s “Attribute hotspot is not defined” error
I was trying to install Opscode’s Chef using the “Bootstrap Chef Rubygems Installation” method. It was failing hard with something about a ‘hotspot’.
Making vim look like textmate (again!)
A few years ago I posted about my quest to make editing ruby in my terminal as beautiful as in Textmate. I’ve been back on linux for a year now but it’s only...
The Long Tail
One of the questions in a technical interview I sat today was “Write ‘tail’ in Ruby”. I had a pen and paper and no access to Google. I think I came up with a...