Blog Posts (Page 2)

• 26 February 2013

  Why Nick Grimshaw Is My Latest Excuse for Being Lazy

  Okay, I’ll admit it. I’m pretty terrible at getting up in the morning. (Actually, it’s probably that I’m terrible at going to bed in the evening, but that’s semantics.)

• 12 September 2012

  Computer Names

  My alphabetical mathematical computer naming convention.

• 26 June 2012

  Facebook Events in Google (Apps) Calendar

  I subscribe to a number of third-party calendars in my own Google Calendar, one of which being my Facebook events. However, there are a couple of issues to work around to get everything working perfectly.

• 21 June 2012

  How I Use Smart Playlists to Manage My iTunes Library

  I have a fair amount of music in my library, and because I’m a massive nerd I like to keep it in some sort of order. (My pre-iTunes library has some 20,000 tracks, half of which are utter garbage. I’m slowly moving over the good stuff.)

• 8 June 2012

  Using Ant and Phing in the same repository

  Here’s the scenario: you use Apache Ant for some of your build process, but you also have some tools in Phing. You run both ant and phing from your repository root. Because you use Ant most, the Ant targets are in build.xml, and Phing has to use phing.xml. Sure, you can run phing -f phing.xml ..., but where’s the fun in that? Enter the following build file:

• 27 May 2012

  Crooked Ways

  Yesterday was Crooked Ways festival at Pontefract racecourse — and what a great festival it was! Plenty of music, plenty of beer, and plenty of sun!

• 19 April 2012

  Everything Changes

  Motivated by a number of reasons, I’ve begun to move everything from my old VPS.

• 8 September 2010

  Leeds Festival 2010

  Just recovered from the festival, so thought I’d post some ramblings for this year. Various high points were: Colin; gin jam; Jacob and Alf shopping for nothing but sweets; the wind and its army of shopping bags; back on form with brie and crackers; staying at the main stage missing plenty of good bands; acting like we were 16 again; when gazebos attack; a night of rum leading to much destruction; that man’s dressed all in red; wrestling ring during Limp Bizkit; breaking glasses again; general debauchery and merriment. Roll on next year!

• 8 November 2009

  Word Clock v2

  My trials and tribulations with a modified word clock.

• 23 October 2009

  Mootools Hash.setFromPath

  MooTools More implements a getFromPath method in Hash.Extras, but doesn’t provide a corresponding setter. Here’s an implementation: