Category Archives: Blog
Stuff I Like (Week ending 11th March 2012)
Quiet week again this week, I’ve hardly shared anything on Buffer/Pinboard/Twitter. The weird thing is I always feel like I am sharing lots of links and posts, not sure why… Of course, the big news this week was Apple announcing … Continue reading
Stuff I Like (Week ending 4th March 2012)
This week (at work) I helped successfully launch ‘The Times Crossword BETA‘ to the Mozilla Marketplace as part of Mobile World Congress. Let me know what you think! Raspberry Pi launched this week in partnership with two suppliers – RS … Continue reading
Stuff I Like (Week ending 26th February 2012)
Either this week has gone by really fast, or I just haven’t been sharing much, as my Pinboard/Buffer/Twitter timeline are remarkably empty! I guess I’ve been pretty busy at work finishing off our latest project which you should be able … Continue reading
Stuff I Like (Week ending 19th February 2012)
The big surprise news this week was Apple announcing OS X Mountain Lion being launched this summer. Nothing massively ground-breaking but I’m excited about getting an integrated Notification Centre (bye Growl?). Trying to remember all these common grammar mistakes is … Continue reading
Stuff I Like (Week ending 12th February 2012)
Advanced Data Structures, a Computer Science module at MIT, looks like a great course with a great lecturer. All lectures will be available online with video and synchronised lecture notes, so it’s worth a look! I cannot get enough of … Continue reading
Stuff I like (Week ending 5th February 2012)
Maciej Cegłowski, creator of Pinboard, posted an article this week called The Five Stages of Hosting. In it he compares different hosting options (SaaS, cloud, your own datacentre) to different types of housing. It’s worth a read because Maciej is a … Continue reading
Stuff I like (Week ending 29th January)
To try and get some more use out of this blog, I’m thinking of looking over my Pinboard/Instapaper/History each week and picking out a few things that I found really interesting over the course of the week. So here goes: … Continue reading
Adding files to config.assets.precompile in Rails 3.1+
I came across a problem that stumped me for quite a while today, so thought it best I write it down. In Rails 3.1+ with the asset pipeline enabled any files that are not referenced by a manifest file (e.g. … Continue reading
Always have exact (UK) change
I never thought about this, but there is a way of going out of the house with a small number of coins, and always (at least, the first time) having the right amount of change between 1p and 99p with … Continue reading
Stop whinging about the new iPhone Twitter client
Twitter have launched what could be considered the first version of their website that properly demonstrates the monetization direction they are trying to take, and in conjunction they have unified their website, iOS (only iPhone for now) and Android clients. … Continue reading