Archive for September, 2006

Arduino

I got quite excited reading about Arduino this morning, so much so that I bought one. Its based around Wiring and Processing which are both ...

More desktops

I knocked up a couple more desktops. One yesterday and one this morning. The one this morning is my first attempt at a dual-screen desktop. As always, ...

Rails code that doesn’t get executed for generations and migrations

At work, we’ve developed some plugins that cause issues when invoked in generators. For instance, you may be creating controllers on the fly, and so ...

Desktop Backgrounds

I recently put up some of the backgrond I made that I feel are still worthy of public consumption. You can view them on my ...

Shattered Ubuntu

I've been taking a look at the Shattered 3D Ruby rails-like application framework recently for something to mess about with, but getting it to work ...

Hurray for Last-Exit!

I use Last.fm to track my music and learn about new music and bands. But when they changed their Last.fm player software I couldn’t do ...

XHTML Strict Invalid with RESTful forms

At work, I discovered that using the standard “form_for” helper with simply restful generated invalid markup, since the secret “fake method” input tag was not ...

Tired

I was at work till 3am this morning (woohoo 10 hours overtime!), most of which was wasted on a tiny bug which came down to ...

New software, new design

Well, as promised I have switched over to using Mephisto as my new blog software. So far I’m pretty impressed and its gone like a ...