Blog Posts (Page 2)
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An Analogy of DNS Resolution
Imagine that you own a store in the high street. Now, for people to find your store, they can’t just look it up, or walk down the street or anything. They have to rely on some guy (an “informer”) who stands outside their house and says, “The Widget Shop? Yes, it’s on the high street.” People will be able to get to your store, and they’ll remember what the informer told them, but only for a week or so. After that they’ll be like, “Where’s The Widget Shop again?” and have to ask the informer.
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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.)
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Computer Names
My alphabetical mathematical computer naming convention.
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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.
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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.)
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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
antandphingfrom your repository root. Because you use Ant most, the Ant targets are inbuild.xml, and Phing has to usephing.xml. Sure, you can runphing -f phing.xml ..., but where’s the fun in that? Enter the following build file: -
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!
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Everything Changes
Motivated by a number of reasons, I’ve begun to move everything from my old VPS.
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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!
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Word Clock v2
My trials and tribulations with a modified word clock.