2009
- Shaving
In a few days I’ll be twenty-nine. Herewith my personal shaving rules: shaving in the shower is better than shaving in the sink shaving oil is better than shaving foam
Published on 05 January in general me shaving - Sinatra from scratch
I wrote a small Ruby app the other day which was chucking out JSON which was being parsed by some PHP. So I thought I’d convert it to all-Ruby using S...
Published on 16 January in mongrel rack ruby ruby sinatra - Papercamp and music
Jeremy’s written a great roundup of Papercamp, which I wasn’t able to get to. Amongst other things, he says this: everyone gathers...
Published on 18 January in general mp3 papernet qr - Bristol Ruby User Group
Tonight was the third Bristol Ruby User Group meeting, but the first with room for laptops and a projector (thanks to petef for organising and
Published on 22 January in bristol brug general ruby - Disable system bell in msys
I am using Git on the command line in Windows via msysgit. As with all msys installs whenever you press back...
Published on 08 February in general git msys - Micropayments are a mistake
The other day some idiot suggested micropayments for online newspapers (
Published on 10 February in bbc general micropayments news - Bazaar and Git
I’ve had cause to use both Bazaar and Git recently, which are very similar to one another and both of which I quite like. ...
Published on 05 March in bazaar bzr general git - NewsGator + Venus?
I recently broke the graphics drivers on my Windows Vista installation, so re-partitioned and now run Ubuntu full-time at home. On Windows I use
Published on 09 March in feeddemon general newsgator planet python syndication ubuntu wxvenus wxwidgets - Twitter on Ubuntu - use Gwibber
Published on 10 March in general linux tools twitter ubuntu - Money is dull
I am in the process of buying my first house. Unless you’ve already done it, you would not believe how tedious it is. You can read a lot about how stressful it is, but so far I’ve not found ...
Published on 22 March in general houses money moving - Sending files to Ubuntu Intrepid over bluetooth
Out of the box you cannot send files over bluetooth to a computer running the latest stable version of Ubuntu, Intrepid Ibex, 8.10. This is a bit of a pr...
Published on 23 March in bluetooth general linux mobile - venus-ng
venus-ng is a fork of Venus which uses Newsgator to provid...
Published on 28 March in general python syndication venus - Storing feedparser objects in couchdb
sudo apt-get install python-feedparser easy_install jsonpickle sudo apt-get install couchdb easy_install couchdb sudo couchdb Open a new terminal
Published on 31 March in couchdb general python syndication - CouchDB in desktop applications
Following my last post I was ...
Published on 04 April in couchdb general python venus wxvenus - HTML rendering is hard
wxWidgets is a nice, easy-to-use cross platform toolkit for writing desktop applications. It exists for many different languages including
Published on 20 April in general wxvenus wxwidgets - Ruby and memcached in Bristol
I have rather hastily promised to do a talk about memcached at the Bristol Ruby User Group
Published on 22 April in bristol general memcached ruby - Things I own today that I did not own yesterday
38cm Black and Decker rotary lawnmower a rake a pair of shears gardening gloves two trowels two pairs of secateurs a set of 51 tools (mos...
Published on 07 June in garden general house - Github worries me
I’m not that keen on git (for mostly aesthetic reasons although I suspect I’ll have to get over this soon), and
Published on 18 July in general git svn - HTML 5
I don’t understand the recent
Published on 25 July in general html5 web - How curious are humans?
I’m reasonably confident that at some unspecified point in the future we’ll tear the Universe in two. I feel slightly proud about that.
Published on 27 July in general - Photo-frame dashbaord
In a comment on peterme.com over a year ago, I said I’d like to see a personal dashboard being displayed t...
Published on 07 August in general - No more NewsGator, no Google Reader API
So everyone heard earlier this week that
Published on 09 August in general newsgator syndication - Life-changing
Three months ago my first son, Daniel was born.
Published on 08 November in baby daniel general - Importing Nokia podcast subscriptions into Google Reader
Exporting the list of podcasts load the podcasting application, mark all items and hit “send -> bluetooth”. Contrary to what you might expect, ...
Published on 03 December in general google reader n95 nokia opml syndication - Setting up the Play framework on Google App Engine
The Play framework is the most fun I’ve had developing Java web applications. It’s fast, natural, comes with
Published on 14 December in gae general java play