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Getting Redis and CodeIgniter to play together

July 1st 2010

I’ve wanting to play with Redis, a super speedy key-value pair store, for a while, but there wasn’t readily available way for me to bolt it into my PHP framework of choice CodeIgniter.  There was however a good PHP client for Redis in the form of Rediska through, so I decided it was time to roll my [...]

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Making your wireless router from Virgin Media work with your Mac

January 23rd 2010

Finally, I’m up and running with Virgin Media broadband at home.  They give you a free wireless router, but all the setup instructions and the setup cd’s are for Windows.  The bloke who installed the cabling suggested I rung the £80,000 a minute phone line.  Panic not people, follow these instructions… With everything turned off… [...]

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Flickr code dev and deployment

December 3rd 2009

Flickr continues to blow my mind – it really does. This article about their code management and versioning actually blew me away. I know continuous integration can work (I imagine it can completely fail too unless your dev staff have their heads screwed on) I’ve done some really easy go-lives (of simple things) and some [...]

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Open source monitoring tools

November 29th 2009

If you run a bunch of Linux boxes, or even just the one to be honest, there are a few tools which you probably know about by now, but will help you keep on top of your system.  Linux has a lovely habit of just pploughing along quite happily for years (whilst not Linux I’ve [...]

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Make your RSS feeds trackable

October 5th 2009

One of the things that has bugged me for ages is how to track how many people  are subscribing to my RSS feeds.  Short of using Feedburner or other such tracking systems, there was no way I could do it on my own.. Then, in the shower this week (where I have many of my [...]

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Bootstrapping an online presence in less than an hour

August 7th 2009

Over the last few years I’ve launched a couple of online projects which have mostly not really gained traction, but which have scratched m own itch.  I’ve done them cheaply too, and normally pretty quickly.  There’s no rocket science in what I’ve done, but I thought I might put it all down on paper (well, [...]

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Firefox features I miss

September 21st 2008

I little while ago I ditched Firefox, and moved over to Safari, because Firefox just felt slow and clunky. It might be my imagination, but Safari feels fasters on my Mac, faster even than Camino which I used for a while. There are however somethings about La ‘Fox which I miss, mostly plugins. Apple-click opens [...]

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Simple way to share iTunes over the Internet

September 10th 2008

I’m messed about with ssh tunnels (works but is a ball ache) and then lastnight I had a throught – and this morning I’m sitting in work listening to music via iTunes streaming from home. Turn on iTune sharing Add password to your iTunes share Log into your router Port forward both traffic types on [...]

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6 Word Stories

August 5th 2008

I’ve written, and written about, 6 word stories, several times in the past, but finally today I got my arse in gear any made … 6 Word Stories. You can read the last ten stories submitted, and submit your own. Go, read, write, enjoy, etc etc. Possibly Related Posts: Getting Redis and CodeIgniter to play [...]

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Google, Youtube, Viacom and the judge

July 3rd 2008

So – in the US a judge (who may or may not be a technically savvy person) has ruled that Google must handover 12 terabytes of information about who has watched what on YouTube to Viacom, who are pissed off that lots of their content is available in crap quality on YouTube. Thankfully the judge [...]

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July 1st 2008

Image by pixelant via Flickr Oh Fail Whale, why do we love you so?  After all, all you say to me is “Twitter is kanckered again – press press F5 a few times, and go away and come back another time”.  I don’t really feel an anamosity towards twitter when it is suffering from tweet [...]

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The days the world changed…

June 20th 2008

OK, so maybe thats over egging it a bit, but gone are the days where the statement that NASA have found ice on Mars looked like this, because the Mars Rover twitter feed has this on it this morning: “Are you ready to celebrate? Well, get ready: We have ICE!!!!! Yes, ICE, *WATER ICE* on [...]

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Amazing how a good graphic illustrates a point

June 5th 2008

Normally people add in pictures and graphcs as an afterthrought, or at least that’s certainly how it feels.  The NYTimes seems to be one of ther few papers who are really seem to be embrassing using graphics on their website, and they take it one step further by allowing animation to show far more information [...]

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Link Dump

May 8th 2008

watching sopranos, no time to write, or read, so dumping links. Wuffle – the thing that drives companies with mojo Four words that drive Web2.0 companies (and I would argue, every great company) Four more words that drive great companies 7 keys to graphic design on the cheap, because if you’ve getting started, you shouldn’t [...]

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Quantum of Solace

April 13th 2008

Yes, I’m excited by the idea of a new Bond film (the last one being a great film), but the title, well, it leaves me cold.  Luckily there’s a wee man called Martin, normally accompanied by an accordion, who has recorded a rather good theme tune. Especially the bit about teaming up with Reg Hollis.  [...]

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Why do I love trustedplaces.com?

March 3rd 2008

I love trustedplaces.com, and because I love it, its the only site I spend time being active in really.  I’m a passive user of hundreds of sites and numerous emialing lists, but there are a couple of sites I actually contribute content to, and trustedplaces.com is one of them.  The big question is why. Well, [...]

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Maybe I should get more hairy

January 26th 2008

otherwise I’ll never make a great geek? Possibly Related Posts: Getting Redis and CodeIgniter to play together Making your wireless router from Virgin Media work with your Mac Flickr code dev and deployment Open source monitoring tools Make your RSS feeds trackable

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Genius comes in small doses

December 1st 2007

I really love indexed, teeny tiny bits of genius on index cards. Possibly Related Posts: Getting Redis and CodeIgniter to play together Making your wireless router from Virgin Media work with your Mac Flickr code dev and deployment Open source monitoring tools Make your RSS feeds trackable

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Microsoft Sharepoint

November 27th 2007

Jesus H. Christ Almighty, please please tell me I’m being an idiot and it’s not actually as fugly and difficult to use as 2 hours of experimentation makes me thing.  Surely it is not possible. Possibly Related Posts: Getting Redis and CodeIgniter to play together Making your wireless router from Virgin Media work with your [...]

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Trustedplaces.com rocks – officially

November 23rd 2007

I’ve been using and writing for trustedplaces.com for about a year now, and I love it.  Its really cool to be able to post up your own stuff and have people feedback to you how they found it, and it can be dead handy for finding places to eat in cities you’re not well versed [...]

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Die Electric!

October 2nd 2007

As cool as the items on Die Electric as I can’t help thinking that a)super ugly side scrolling site and b) surely making the prongs out of plastic would be a good idea as metal is far from dielectric. Possibly Related Posts: Cold Water Swimming Trailing : One Getting Redis and CodeIgniter to play together [...]

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modblog, bme and zentastic

September 30th 2007

editted: It would appear the situation is somewhat unclear, so I pulled my original post.  I have re-opened it because people seem to have found it and been 404′d into confusion.  I offer no judgement, make no calls, I just hope it all works out ok. original post: My many and various vanilla friends, don’t [...]

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Plants make me happy

September 28th 2007

I love the work being done by the crew at Guerrilla Gardening. In a world of red tape, beurocracy (spelling?), and health and safety, surely planting up waste ground and “social spaces” is a great thing? The planting that goes on in social spaces is generally terrible. If I see another greying bank of scrubby [...]

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DRM free mp3s from Amazon

September 26th 2007

With their existing customer base, who are used to using their payment system and front end, I can’t imagine Amazon can go wring with serving up DRM free mp3s which you can then use on any device (and backup etc etc). I wonder who’s tunes they are serving up, and what the payback for artists [...]

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Catcam is back!

September 13th 2007

Lost from the net for a little big of timne, CatCam is back! Follow Mr Lee’s adventures. Possibly Related Posts: Home-brewed time-lapse fungus growing 101 Getting Redis and CodeIgniter to play together Mushrooms, live! Train + wifi + bored + guardian api + unix tools = …. E by gum

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Just call me an expert!

September 13th 2007

Wow – trustedplaces.com has had an overhaul, and it’s looking pretty bloody brilliant. The front end is faster and slicker, the reviewing process is much nicer (the last one seemed to suffer a little for session slip), and they now have some nice new features (recommendations based on your profile, etc). One thing I love [...]

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Getting Upcoming to talk to Google Calendar

September 11th 2007

Google calendar is great. I use it huge amounts, like theway it syncs with iCal on my iBook (and thus with my phone), and it’s neat and clean lines. Upcoming also seems like a great idea. I like it’s community feel, and I like it’s presentation. So, the only big question is, how do I [...]

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Ten pieces of advice for old media

September 6th 2007

I loved this article called “Ten pieces of advice for old media” which interestingly enough was on badscience.net. I agree with every one of them, even the total ban on Flash on sites. It also makes a very good point about miniblogs and repeating content. Numerous times I’ve basically just re-written somebodies article to make [...]

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Rick Rubin interview

September 4th 2007

I’m waiting for some scripts to finish running, and they were taking their time, which has given me the time to read the whole of this brilliant article about Rick Rubin. If you don’t know who he is, he’s the founder of Def jam records, and it turns out, the producer (and guru like muse) [...]

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When Joel says it sucks, it sucks.

August 31st 2007

Imagine my delight, when somebody who’s blog I hold in the highest regard has the following to say about Vista being rubbish (and a little more elequently that I or my commenters have). “I’ve been using Vista on my home laptop since it shipped, and can say with some conviction that nobody should be using [...]

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Food for thought

August 30th 2007

I love the writing style of Allegra McEvedy. As it’s not obvious, click on the permalink to read each full article. Possibly Related Posts: Homemade flavoured spirits Slow baked ham with cider and spice Give us this day our daily bread(maker) Home-brewed time-lapse fungus growing 101 Jerking it

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Buffalo’s customer service is shocking.

August 29th 2007

Buffalo Technology’s UK help desk is appalling. Rude, snappy and frankly appauling. A few weeks ago I bought a Buffalo LinkStation Live (320Gb version) and very nice it was too, for the first 2 days. After 2 days, it simply made a beeping noise, and did not do anything more. After 2 phone calls to [...]

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Being X-Tream!

August 24th 2007

I lovelove love the last cartoon strip in todays BasicInstructions. I might possibly have done xtream roast chicken in the past. I brought it though. Definately. Possibly Related Posts: Homemade flavoured spirits Cold Water Swimming Trailing : One Slow baked ham with cider and spice Give us this day our daily bread(maker) Home-brewed time-lapse fungus [...]

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Gmail Spam?

August 21st 2007

Just lately I’ve had to start going through my spam box in gmail because its started catching lots of my actual emails.  Most of the messages I get from a certain wellknown social networking site – spam.  Most of the comments on here – spam.  Emails from me to me (to rememebr things) – spam.  [...]

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Clockwork Orange spam?

August 20th 2007

I just recieved this gem of spamotry, which sounds strangley like something from Clockwork Orange to my ears: Babes always whizgiggled at me and even boys did in the urban water closet! Well, now I whizgiggle at them, because I took (product name removed) for 5 months and now my putz is excessively bigger than [...]

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Interesting reading

August 16th 2007

The story of uncovering a hacked Linux box. Interesting stuff. Possibly Related Posts: Home-brewed time-lapse fungus growing 101 Getting Redis and CodeIgniter to play together Mushrooms, live! Train + wifi + bored + guardian api + unix tools = …. E by gum

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