Category Archives: General

Goodbye 1 & 1

Posted on 12/1/2012 by Ian

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 →

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Maintaining References to Sockets with Express and Socket.io

Posted on 4/7/2011 by Ian

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 →

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Updating WordPress Automatically over SFTP

Posted on 7/5/2011 by Ian

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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A Survey of Hype in Web Development Podcasts

Posted on 31/3/2011 by Ian

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 →

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Blog rolling with CouchDB, Express and Node.js

Posted on 7/2/2011 by Ian

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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How not to: Do A Hack Day

Posted on 24/7/2010 by Ian

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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Fair & Bare – January £10 Sale!

Posted on 7/1/2010 by Ian

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 →

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Discovering Google

Posted on 25/10/2009 by Ian

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?

Posted on 15/2/2009 by Ian

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 →

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What do I have to contribute?

Posted on 29/1/2009 by Ian

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 →

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