Category Archives: Code

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

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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

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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

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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

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Installing gPhoto on Snow Leopard

I always seem to choose the difficult route to do things. Having become equipped with a new canon camera, I’m instantly wanting to capture stop motion shorts with it. Unfortunately canons proprietry capture software isn’t really up to the job … Continue reading

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How not to: Do A Hack Day

It’s been well over a month since I attended science hack day and I’d thought I’d put out some notes on my time there. Rather than do a run down of the event, for which I’m sure there’s far more … Continue reading

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Lovefilm Filmstream Plugin for WordPress

Something I’ve thought I’d like to have on my site for a while is a list of movies that I’ve recently seen and some brief opinions on them. I’m not entirely sure how I would go about this for films … Continue reading

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Amazon Associates WordPress Plugin v0.2

I’ve just updated my amazon associates plugin to take into account the recent signiture changes which amazon have introduced for their webservices api. This now also means you’ll have to enter your amazon secret access key in the plugin configuration … Continue reading

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Amazon Associates WordPress Wishlist Plugin

One of the things that’s bugged me for a while whilst having a website is that at certain times of the year when people might actually like to buy me a gift they’re unable to find my wishlist. This is … Continue reading

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Book Review: Code Igniter for Rapid PHP Application Development

In this book, author David Upton walks you through use of the Code Igniter framework, which is essentially PHP’s answer to Ruby on Rails. I’ve been a avid user of Code Igniter since I discovered it last year, which is … Continue reading

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