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?
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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
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
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
Fair & Bare – January £10 Sale!
Fair & Bare – The little shop I run (with a little help from my wife) is having a January Sale right now in celebration of entering the year 2010. Every shirt we’ve made to date is just 10 squid! … Continue reading
Discovering Google
I’ve recently read a post over on the guardians technology site which gave a whistle-stop history of the internet as it turns 40. I thought I’d share here my own experiences of growing up alongside the web, more for my … Continue reading
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How has web use changed your life?
I’ve been pondering this morning how the use of the internet has (or may have) changed my life. As a child/teen during the web’s infancy, I was blissfully unaware that so many lifes/careers/relationships would be enabled or changed as a … Continue reading
What do I have to contribute?
It has struck me over the last couple of days and it’s a reflection of my attitude to being interested in geeky things in general. I’m an elitist. When I started my blog back in 2003, I loved the fact … Continue reading