Twitter: niftydigits
- Just watched "King of Kong" and weirdly noted it has the same director as the film I watched last night, "Horrible Bosses". How bizarre..
- @JamFactory will give that a look. Thanks for the heads up.
- You know that kid that turns up to the swimming pool and splashes everyone else? That's my kid.
- Why Yellow Pages stock is down. RT @ianibbo: hehe http://t.co/sjy0vkFN
- This is great. RT @foomandoonian Siri in Scotland: http://t.co/ujX0IA9N - See also: http://t.co/SgqcIDHL
- Injected With A Poison by Praga Khan is my latest Jam. http://t.co/jiGBwmFM #thisismyjam
- @alistairholt yeah. Not much point in making a saas app here if you're an indie.
- @alistairholt no
- @foomandoonian Ooh. Sounds exciting. You going to be writing one?
Author Archives: Ian
New Adventures 2012 – Self Help for Web Designers
Last week, like many others working on the web, I took the trip to Nottingham for New Adventures 2012. I’d seen the wonderful praise dished out for it last year and felt like I wanted to see what it was … Continue reading
Goodbye 1 & 1
I just sent the following email to 1 & 1′s billing department. I’ve been with them for coming up to 7 years now and they were, when I first used them, the only registraar I knew about and I was … Continue reading
Pagination in CouchDB Apps
I’ve been working on some fun little node.js / couchdb projects of late. Given the fact I don’t use either as part of my work, I’ve spent some downtime experimenting and slowly iterating my approaches as I learn best practice. … Continue reading
Hosting an Octopress Blog on Amazon S3
Octopress is a framework for blogging based on the static site generator jekyll. In short jekyll takes markdown and turns it into blog style html ready to be served straight away with Apache whilst Octopress dresses it up nicely with … Continue reading
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Lovefilm Filmstream Plugin v0.2
Just a quick note to say I’ve updated the plugin that generates my filmstream pages. It’s become obvious that the Lovefilm API only exposes the last 10 features that you’ve rented in their “at home” list. This isn’t that great … Continue reading
Participate, Don’t Preach
Last week, tickets went on sale for dConstruct 2011 and sold out within an impressive 7 hours. Having attended in 2010 and 2008 and judging it to be filled with the highest calibre web celebs from across the globe, I … Continue reading
Maintaining References to Sockets with Express and Socket.io
I hit a frustrating problem when trying to use expressjs alongside socket.io recently. The solution may seem somewhat trivial, but I struggled with it for a while, until finally asking for help on the socket.io irc channel. I’m not sure … Continue reading
Updating WordPress Automatically over SFTP
Heres a quick how to on getting wordpress to update over SFTP. On a default install of php, wordpress only gives the option to update over FTP. I wanted to get it working as it’s more secure and means I … Continue reading
A Survey of Hype in Web Development Podcasts
I listen to quite a few web dev podcasts. Something that irks me about a lot of them, is how much they tend to hype their own shows, products or the like. Sure, they’re allowed to, it is their own … Continue reading
Blog rolling with CouchDB, Express and Node.js
Over the last little while, I’ve been doing a lot of playing with Node.js, mostly to run data collection scripts. Last week, I started following Ciaran Jessup’s tutorial on getting started with node.js, Express and mongoDB. Express acts as a … Continue reading