January 2008
138 posts
Simple deployment with SVN and Phing →
Another approach to deploying web apps is to use Phing. Phing is at heart a PHP clone of Ant, another common build and deployment tool. The main advantage of using Phing, at least if you’re already using PHP, is close integration with other PHP specific tools (PHPDocumentor, PHPLint and PHPUnit to name a few) and ease of install. Speaking to installation Phing has it’s own PEAR channel. I still...
You can always spot people from The South in Newcastle at this time of year - they wear coats!
thinking http://www.instapaper.com is very cool
All I can say is wow - http://www.reuters.com/article/rbssTechMediaTelecomNews/idUSL3017857720080130
oooh, Match of the Day on at 10:40
food then writing after a morning of brainstorming
listening to belle and sebastian in popollos
@ryancarson Has to be wordpress - just from a “get on with writing” rather than hacking standpoint
@matthewpennell It probably depends on whether IE6 is pretending to be IE7 or IE5 at the time
@azcazandco Yes and Yes (although that was back in the days of actually using XP)
finding more and more interesting symfony plugins
Questions, Pointers and Reality →
Along with an awful lot of noise, the whole X-UA-COMPATIBLE IE8 issue is also bringing out some well rounded and thought through arguments from people I admire. I still disagree with Jeremy Keith on the default issue but agree with everything else. Jeremy says: Let me make it perfectly clear: I understand the need for version targeting. But the onus must be on the publisher to enable it. At the...
@collylogic You can apply for an exemption. I’ve done Jury duty before but know other people who appealed on the grounds of small businesses
Beanstalk — Version Control with a Human Face →
Nice hosted subversion service, particularly impressed with various integration options
@collylogic mmm, wonder if it might be the launch of the new version?
a few Sunday changes to http://getjobsin.com to make it easier for non-North-East job postings - away you go people who requested that
wondering what new job @ meriwilliams has got?
is waiting…
wonders if anyone in Newcastle is having a swift pint after work?
Yay, actually managed to get a proposal in for Xtech. Last day today if anyone else was running late.
today is django day - went to a talk this morning and got back home to find the book in my post box
Learning more about django with the folks at @hedgehoglab
off to a talk on Django by non other than @simonscarfe
Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. Happy Birthday dear @mollydotcom. Happy birthday to you!
gets to sleep in tomorrow morning!
laugh out loud funny - http://tinyurl.com/yvg78k
listening to Rage Against The Machine - @SteveMarshall made me do it
X-UA-Lemur-Compatible →
So Beyond DOCTYPE: Web Standards, Forward Compatibility, and IE8 was posted. And the Internet went crazy. So I think it’s time for a bit of frivolity, don’t you? The “X-UA-Compatible” Controversy As portrayed by toy lemurs At a tiny company with a website: Lemur 1: I just downloaded Internet Explorer 7! It’s the future!
Lemur 2: Awesome! Let’s check out our website! Lemur 1: Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!...
@rey Since I started using Gmail in Prism I have had zero problems with crashes - plus the security and separation benefits
imagining everyone getting a lift back from PubStandards on @abscond’s milk float
my article on building facebook apps up on Digital Web this morning - http://tinyurl.com/yv9hh8
Good comments (once you filter the noise) on http://tinyurl.com/2tsalp from Chris and John in particular
feels like I disagree with the web today
Wishes I was in a big room full ‘o’ web developers talking thought provokingly about IE8
Expects to get some stick for http://tinyurl.com/2ecxpu but open to someone changing my mind
Who loses out to X-UA-Compatible? →
If you work on the web you’ll probably have already seen or noted the existence of the latest issue of A List Apart: Beyond DOCTYPE: Web Standards, Forward Compatibility, and IE8 From Switches to Targets: A Standardista’s Journey My twitter feed positively exploded with negative feedback on this issue but I’ve only just got round to reading (and re-reading) the various interesting articles and...
writing about todays events
Hopes @adactio is also using the datetime attribute on his DEL and INS elements for added metadata
@andrewdisley Looks like it should do - think they have sold $30,000 or so over the past 2 days, with $8000 to go and 2 days left!
Inbox down to zero. Non-stop productive evening deserves a glass of wine.
secured first training client today. Busy busy busy doesn’t cover it
just bought the mac heist
@simonmcmanus the potential comes when I walk past you with my pocket web server and the two spot each other - which gives me a great idea..
@cackhanded An absolute classic. Even the mention makes me want to go re-read a chapter
@simonmcmanus ooooh, shiny. I’ll have to be having a look at that when I get a chance
hasn’t stopped working this weekend and still has things to do - will crash later in the week I think
@workingwithme You mean you double charge all your clients and don’t encrypt your passwords?
@Si I know exactly what you mean!
@ev It looks like a port of the default Opera 9 home page - also called Speed Dial
grrr. Trains back from Edinburgh don’t run after 7pm! Needs to either leave BarCamp Scotland early or find somewhere to stay