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?
Category Archives: Web
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
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
Amazon Associates WordPress Wishlist Plugin is No More
I think my post title says it all really. I’ve just discovered that amazon has deprecated use of its ListLookup method since October 15th. I had used this in order to retrieve details of my amazon wishlist and display neatly … 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
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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Tagged amazon, associates, aws, web services, wishlist
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Create Your Own TinyURL Service for WordPress
I don’t particularly like using URL shortening services. I think I first noticed them getting used rather prolificly in the Guardians technology section to include lots of random links to bizarre web content. TinyURL’s own web site wouldn’t particularly inspire … Continue reading
My Vicious Circle of Posting Quality Content
I’ve been looking back at the posts on this site and the commitment that I supposedly made (internally) a couple of months ago about posting regular, interesting content. But it seemed to die a death very promptly. I think that … Continue reading
Stephen Fry and the Ascent of “Micro Blogging”
Twitter is all over the news at the moment. For the uninitiated, it allows you to list short updates of what you are doing at any time. BBC News seemed to have an all-out assault at the end of January … Continue reading
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Are Music Blogs getting a Raw Deal?
I can’t help but feel a little sorry for music blogs as of late. I’m sure you may be familiar with The Hype Machine and may use it on a daily basis. For the uninitiated, it is essentially a music … 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