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…
Plug the [...]
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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 [...]
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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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 best [...]
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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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