I’m a Ninja

True fax.  Pirates are rubbish.

Vermont Got Sexy

If you’re a freelance programmer who’s dabbled in setting up your own company then you may like to hear about Vermont right now. Most countries and states require you to have a physical office and solid paper trail to incorporate a company.  Even if you’re a virtual one who’s staff are contracted across the world.  [...]

Saturday Code Quote: 7

Tsk. /* ** The following shit is necessary because Netscape developers don’t ** know how to read the fucking RFCs. */ From the source of the Courier Mail Server.

Updated: YourMP Google Desktop Gadget

Quick post to say my Google Gadget, YourMP, has been updated.  Its now a lot more efficient, cleaner, working and just overall better. Quick rundown: MP details: Name,Constituency,Party and Expenses Optionally show MP photo next to details. Debates listing now includes the date given. You know what would be REALLY useful? Feedback! Its been broken [...]

5 Ways: Documenting Javascript

I stumbled across a need for this while I was doing some updates to my Google Desktop Plugin (YourMP).  If you’ve ever done any coding for GDS gadgets then you’ll know it uses JS.  Now my documenting was pretty poor so I wanted to tidy it up and went hunting for the usual format. It [...]

Keeping Fit

I wasn’t going to post anything about my new blog here because its on a completely different subject.  However, after reading the guy at Piece of Py posted about his fitness programme I thought I may as well too! So apologies if you want something tech related – today is about fitness and health.  So [...]

Saturday Code Quote: 6

Fix it… # XXX for the record, I have no fucking idea why this works, what # it’s technically represented as and what backwards array # implementation would allow it to work. # # I’m hoping it’ll break on some future version of postgresql so I # can fix it. From the source of RubyDBI

Django Debug Toolbar

This looks very sexy – almost as sexy as DjangoPony.  Its a debug toolbar that was inspired by the PHP Symphony project.  Hold on now, don’t run away just cos I mentioned PHP.  This is pure Python goodness and its damn useful too.  It provides a load of debug info such as headers, exec time, [...]

Colour & Centre

I’ve never broached this subject with other Brits so I don’t know if its an annoyance to anyone else but I’m going to get on my soapbox. It REALLY pisses me off having to misspell COLOUR and CENTRE all the fu&^%ng time when using CSS!! I don’t want to get into the linguistic history, the [...]

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