Reprocessed

I’m heading to Berlin for O’Reilly’s Web 2.0 Expo next week. I’ll be speaking on a panel with Leisa Reichelt and Fred Oliveira: Moving from 1.0 to 2.0: Philosophies and...

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We have vacancies for developers at BBC Audio & Music Interactive at the moment. If you want to join a team building the data-driven future of the BBC’s National Radio...

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So, the ‘little’ downtime has been most of a week, which kind of serves me right for buggering around with my server so much when I had other things to...

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Here are the slides from my presentation at BarCamp London a few weekends ago. Sorry for the delay, I was hoping to secure permission to distribute the slides with one...

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I’m freshly arrived home from Barcamp London, which was enormous fun. I’ll be posting up the slides, with notes, from my presentation (Everything I know about programming I learnt from...

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I’ve wanted to have a look at Active Resource since it was announced, and now I need to look at it for work. It took me a while to get...

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So, what the hell happened to me… Weeellllll, so, we were in Rome (don’t expect the link to work just yet… I haven’t written that yet), which took up time...

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BBC Radio & Music Interactive, the department where I work has some job vacancies. It’s a good place to work, and we’re doing interesting and exciting things. (It’s not without...

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So, I’ve been meaning to do this for about nine months now. I have a Debian box at home which is, in fact, an old PowerMac 7300. It has fans,...

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So, compiling and installing PostgreSQL from source is pretty easy: Follow the instructions Apple posted. For variation I used the niload utility to create a new user and group for...

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This is a little Applescript I’ve created to allow you to post URLs to your del.icio.us from within NewNewsWire 2. It’s the not the first of it’s kind, but it...

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The suggested setup routine for MT 3.1’s dynamic publishing gives instructions for use with .htaccess files. If, like me, you’ve got root access to some variety of unix box then...

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When Matt Biddulph (R&Mi T&D Architecture Team Gruppenfuhrer) wrote about Moyles-proof code he was talking about processing incoming SMS. The core plumbing of that system was a way of turning...

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I may be an exception, but I listen to my music exclusively by leaving my iPod (and iTunes, for that matter) on random play, set to shuffle by album not...

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I’ve only had an iPod for a few months, but that’s been long enough to realise a few things about it, good and bad. My department’s boss, Dan Hill, wrote...

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Amidst the maelstrom of complaint about the way Apple have handled recent security problems John Gruber has complained about Apple viewing security updates as a marketing problem, in Security cannot...

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This is something I should have done a while ago… I’m very pleased to indulge in a little self-promotion and wave the flag for the second edition of my book:...

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I’ve got a problem with IE and some Dynamic HTML I’ve been working on. I’m duplicating chunks of a form using the DOM cloneNode() method (all fine and dandy -...

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After a brief period of unpublicised writing activity a few months ago, followed by a period of frenetic back-end new-site coding that, as yet, hasn’t produced a usable new site...

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The way that CSS’s specificity (how browsers choose which CSS rules to apply) works can be a little baffling, even to old hands. I was writing rules for this site...

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