I’ve made a little app which generates an image for you to display or print how many people there are in space right now. The code is here. This is based on work that the excellent design and technology agency BERG did a decade ago with

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GatherContent is an awesome tool for planning, structuring and collaborating on web content (they have a short video demo). They have a read-only API, but only a couple of implementations, so

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About a year ago Libby Miller wrote Charbot Green, a BBC Radio 4 announcement bot for Twitter. It’s written in JRuby, uses the H2 database and

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I have rather hastily promised to do a talk about memcached at the Bristol Ruby User Group meetup on Thursday evening (we’ll start after 6pm at the Jiva offices, see the map, no need to know a...

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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 The Watershed for giving us somewhere to meet for free!).

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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 Sinatra (my first real attempt at a Ruby web framework that’s not Hello World). Installation was harder than expected on my clean Ubuntu box, but for reference:

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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 Sinatra (my first real attempt at a Ruby web framework that’s not Hello World). Installation was harder than expected on my clean Ubuntu box, but for reference:

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Seriously. I really like Java, it’s a fundamentally great language. Verbose at times, but great. However, web application development in Java is painful. Additionally, the compilation and deployment of Java webapps completely suck. I mean, they’re terrible. I dread to think how many frameworks exist in Java to ease web app development – each one claiming it...

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Deskbot is a cross-platform desktop-based Jabber client for talking to a single user – normally a bot. Th...

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A mental reminder to check first whether a new owner provides RSS feeds for searches in a service they’ve just bought before learning Ruby,

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