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Rails on Ubuntu in 14 minutes
I recently installed Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope and hadn't yet got around to putting Rails on to it. Installing Ruby and Gems and Rails and getting them all to work nicely together can be a pain, so i'm...
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A quick look at Hobo
Having just installed Rails on Ubuntu tonight, and reminded myself how utterly horrible the Rails scaffold looks (it's supposed to!) i thought i might have a look at Hobo. Hobo builds upon Rails,...
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A website in a day
Sometimes it's excellent fun to work with somebody to produce a website in a day. With no requirement for ongoing support, just get it up and running, instant gratification. In a way, it says, "Look...
View ArticleThe Lord's Prayer, for coders
The following comes from a funny (and slightly weird) conversation i had on a walk with a colleague this afternoon. This is literally the way we often talk when we go out for our walks around the...
View ArticleMy software apprenticeship
I have recently had the privilege of being accepted as an apprentice to software craftsman and philosopher Enrique Comba Riepenhausen. This is part of Eden Development adopting a craftsmanship approach...
View ArticleA quick way to resize images in Linux
Quite often i find myself wanting to resize a whole directory of images. Rather than opening them all in the gimp, i do it through the command line. I seem to do this often enough that it's worth...
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don't you just love an awesomesauce #tupperwarebox
This weekend the world went mad for Tupperware Boxes. Key output: Some rather bizarre songs: My dog's favourite thing is my #tupperwarebox, it's full of treats and nom, she behaves so well when it's...
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Gowalla pins
As of Monday, 5th July, these are the 38 pins currently available on Gowalla, grouped by category. I just made this because it's sometimes hard to see what all the pins are at a glance. If you're...
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Packard Bell Mustek Bearpaw scanner on Ubuntu/Mint
I am quite sure that nobody cares about this except for me, unless they happen to have a similar scanner to mine. I've had to do this process about 5 times now on different installs. I can guarantee...
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Computer generated art
I woke up yesterday with a simple idea for generating a picture based on an input string. I don't exactly know where the idea came from, but i think i've been influenced by Nick Huggins, whose abstract...
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