December 2007
53 posts
back home after visiting the parents for Christmas
looking for good BarCamp quotes and pictures for a “convince possible venue to host BarCamp” document - come to my aid Twitterverse
was about to go to sleep, then spent 2 hours leaning Ant and Phing
feels like he should be upgrading wordpress. Twitterpressure perhaps?
thinks dot:north is going to be darn good
finally getting round to a load of emails
What!? “Only one copy of Prism can be open at a time.” Off to sleep in a huff…
instead of sleeping is apparently making shiny icons for Mozilla Prism apps
looking for good books to read on amazon - recommendations anyone?
Receipts →
Dining Car Receipt © Laineys Repertoire / CC
“What is that?” she exclaimed. “It’s all the paperwork we’ve collected this year.” “In one big pile?” “Well…” “This is where all our bills go?” “Well, our paid bills. Unpaid bills go into a pile on my desk.” “Your system sucks.” “It’s a perfectly good system. It’s just optimized for writes.” “Rights?” “No, writes. As in, INSERT BILL INTO PILE.” My...
Wonders if it’s @benward’s birthday today? http://tinyurl.com/2bcn85 (microformats say NO)
Web design 2.0 - it’s all about the resource and... →
Jamie’s recent post about his work on the design of BBC’s /programmes service highlights an important trend in the design of modern web products. It’s all about the resource and its URL.
Web site design use to be focused on the page and the sitemap - we assumed users would visit a site and browse around a bit while they were there - sites therefore wrapped their content in heavy branding and...
@benward have a look at symfony, you know you want to
Is it Birthday? →
Do people forget your birthday every year? Ever wonder when your birthday is? Now you can just sign up, subscribe to a feed and never need to remember again!
@BenWard good plan! on the list
Is it Birthday? →
Did you love the simplicity of Is it Christmas? but feel left out, wondering why Christmas should be more important than, say, you? Well here’s your answer; Is it Birthday?
remember isitchristmas? ever wanted your own? register over on http://isitbirthday.com (but be gentle - and let me know what you think :-)
just a few bits of copy to write and then I can release this app!
Has finished another evening of coding up a storm - all will be revealed tomorrow
@peterjlambert probably not, as I recall @kapowaz was the only person upset when Dr Who came on the big screen at hackday
PHP 5.3 has namespaces. FTW!
getting help from the ever helpful #symfony irc channel
thinks @aral should probably reread his last tweet :-) (intrigued by singularity though)
@drewm and @rachelandrew - huge congratultions! Festive cheer indeed!
@benward I have a Crumpler Crisp E 3000 for my 400D including 2 lenses. Lovely bag.
why do even good backend developers insist on mixing their language of choice up with Javascript?
@mattb good find! Now wondering the same…
blogging cool bits of symfony - morethanseven.net/
Nice bits of symfony: Web Debug Toolbar →
I mentioned previously that I’d been playing with the symfony framework on a couple of projects and I have to admit to being more and more impressed as I wade in looking for things. I’ve worked with enough MVC-like frameworks to know they are all quite similar in more ways than they are dramatically different. So it’s the little bits and pieces that win you over. One of my favourite little bits in...
The fallacy of too much accessibility →
There is no such thing as too much (or overdoing) accessibility, and its ludicrous to suggest that too much accessibility actually reduces the accessibility of a site. The second statement is an obvious contradiction, making a site accessibile does not mean making it less accessible. What we are seeing is a non-understanding of web accessibility, which is leading to results that don’t...
too many ideas and too little time. Also too many domain names and too much wine, but what can you do?
buying domain names, messing with DNS and pondering memcached - festive or what?
so summing up - Christmas on twitter = cameras + Dr Who + http://isitchristmas.com + geekery
IBMer Says LAMP Can't Scale →
A very entertaining and somewhat educational article on IBM Poopheads say LAMP Users Need to “grow up”. The physical three tier architecture turns out to be the root of all evil and shared nothing architectures brings simplicity and light.
In the comments Simon Willison makes an insightful comment on why fine grained caching works for personalized pages and proxy’s don’t:...
their really isn’t a limit to the number of microformats you can add to any given project
now what to do with the rest of the day?
merry christmas all
at home surrounded by computers
back at the parents for Christmas. Just waiting for Salmon and a nice glass of wine for tea
” I come from the Internet, and we judge things based on whether they work or not” - go @tommorris go
Happy with my eeepc →
I like small. I have a macbook rather than a macbook pro because it’s smaller. Especially now I’m wandering about more often with work (and play) lugging a machine around is less and less appealing. So, armed with that excuse I felt justified in going out and buying a new Asus Eee PC. I managed to just walk in to Micro Anvika in Newcastle and buy one from a bemused staff member who was pretty...
customising my eeepc desktop
everything now looks big now I have my eeepc
just watched a hardcore band win a battle of the bands with spice girls covers. This is christmas!
Rails PDF publishing house →
Some great ideas form a little independent Rails publisher making really good use of niche distribution and multimedia PDF
installing development tools on my new eeepc
just walked into a shop and bought a eeepc. Has festive luck
topfunky: About This Blog: Beanstalk Messaging... →
Figure A Messaging queues are a tool for executing code without taxing your web application processes.
Web developers often get into the rut of thinking about every programming task in the context of a request and a response. A request comes for a URL, content is retrieved and converted into useful output, then sent back to the client. Lather, rinse, repeat. But there are also other types of...
experimenting with Tumblr
ooh, Google Reader shared items page uses microformats