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Bookmarks for October 11th – April 3rd

// April 26th, 2008 // No Comments » // General

I had some catching up to do…

• Greek Reciepes
  Includes moussaka
  Filed under: cooking, reciepes, greek, mediterranean,
• Manchester Airport Parking
  Directions: http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=d&hl=en&geocode=&saddr=s425jg&daddr=53.32021,-1.988525+to:sk93jx&mrcr=0,1&mrsp=1&sz=10&mra=dpe&sll=53.278305,-1.807455&sspn=0.350619,1.001129&ie=UTF8&ll=53.349629,-2.20911&spn=0.021877,0.062571&z=14&om=1
  Filed under: airport, parking, manchester, holiday, travel,
• Twitux – Twitter client for the GNOME desktop

  Filed under: twitux, twitter, gnome, application, client,

• Google Maps Marker Image Generator

  Filed under: google, maps, marker, image, generator, icon,

• Definitive Guide to Symfony – Running Symfony
  How to install symfony
  Filed under: php, webdev, symfony, installation,
• Publishing local web services with mdns

  Filed under: avahi, mdns,

• Facebook API Python Client

  Filed under: python, facebook, programming, api,

• Tasky todo list manager

  Filed under: tasky, gnome, todo, Mono,

• Philae Temple Map

  Filed under: philae, egypt, temple, map,

• spa-3102 voip router info

  Filed under: voip, router, adsl, spa-3102,

• utf8 generator

  Filed under: unicode, utf8, encoding, webdev,

• Explanation of a consistant hashing algorithm

  Filed under: programming, horizontal, scalability, hashing, caching, algorithms, server,

Bookmarks for March 20th – April 9th

// July 26th, 2007 // No Comments » // Uncategorized

I haven’t blogged my bookmarks in ages..

• Creating presentations in xhtml, javascript and CSS
  A nice, cross platform alternative to the useful features of powerpoint.
• The short version of Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
  That’s an impressive amount of swearing.)
• Write Room – Distraction Free Writing
  Congratulations, you’ve just reinvented vi on a virtual terminal.
• Spit and run? You’ll still get caught
  Has it come to this?
• ViGedit is a plugin for gedit enabling vi-like modal editing
• An overview of REST and SOAP
• Why cell phones are still grounded
  "What’s to stop terrorists from .. turning on dozens of them [phones] at some crucial phase of flight"
• Giving Humans Extra Senses
  How cool would this be? Having a permanent sense of direction would be nice – you’d never need get lost again.

Bookmarks for March 12th – March 18th

// March 19th, 2007 // 3 Comments » // Uncategorized

• Using the GNOME notification-daemon via python
  (tags:python notification-daemon programming gnome)
• Humourous poster on the DVD anti-piracy adverts
  (tags:poster dvd piracy humour)
• Career advice diagram
  Hmm, I guess i’m probably in the leftmost yellow quadrant for pretty much everything I want to do.
  (tags:humour career advice)
• Apple’s New Thing (iPod)
  Commentry from 2001 when the iPod was unveiled. The response is pretty much universally negative.
  (tags:ipod apple funny announcement)
• Installing Oracle XE on Debian
  How to install Oracle Express Edition on Debian. (and a list of bugs in their packages)
  (tags:oracle debian linux database ubuntu install express reference)
• Near ideal IRC and IM setupd
  (tags:howto irc linux bip bitlbee im ssh xchat)

Bookmarks for March 5th – March 12th

// March 12th, 2007 // 4 Comments » // Uncategorized

• IANA Root-Zone DNS records by TLD
  Complete list of ccTLDs and their top level registrars
  (tags:dns cctld webdev)
• Real-time UK traffic information map
  Seems useful to check before starting a long journey.
  (tags:traffic roadworks accident map)
• Using Amazon web services in .net
  (tags:.net amazon web services)
• How not to write debian/copyright files
  (tags:debian packaging tips copyright ubuntu .deb)
• LastFM Being Picked Up By Viacom?
  An interesting rumour. Having last.fm ran by MTV would probably be a bad thing, an astounding amount of money on the table if true though, I find it hard to believe last.fm is really worth $450million
  (tags:rumour lastfm viacom web)
• Email client statistics on Gmane
  Interesting to see that of the top three email clients, two are proprietary when gmane focuses on open source software.
  (tags:email gmane share statistics useragent)

Bookmarks

// August 17th, 2006 // No Comments » // Uncategorized

Top 5 reasons why “The Customer Is Always Right” is wrong – Apparently people are abandoning this idea because it actually leads to bad customer service.

How to Make a Cloud in a Bottle – Quite a simple thing to do, but it looks quite cool.

How to Sleep Comfortably on a Hot Night – This was bookmarked during the hot spell, some good ideas there, also some really obvious ones.

Derbyshire Eateries – A list of places to eat in Derbyshire, many places have an explanatory paragraph, opening times and a photograph. All have contact information.

Linux Question Sheet – A list of questions I should know the answers too backwards and forwards.

(ahem) Monthly Bookmarks

// June 29th, 2006 // No Comments » // Uncategorized

A simple introduction to working with LVM – An brief howto on the concepts of logical volumes and working with Logical Volume Manager to manipulate filesystems in linux.

Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmer’s Guide – Also known as ‘the pickaxe’ this is the free online version of the ruby bible.

Why’s (Poignant) Guide to Ruby – A surreal tutorial introducing and explaining ruby particularly it’s syntax and some of the aspects which differentiate it from other languages.

Gruff Graphs for Ruby – A library to easily make very pretty graphs using ruby.

Colour Illusion Tutorial – A tutorial on how to make the mind see colour in a black and white image via illusions like this Spanish castle.

Weekly Bookmarks

// May 28th, 2006 // No Comments » // Uncategorized

DSOfile: The Untold Story – How to access Microsoft Office file properties programmatically via .net

75 Helpful Web Design Resources – Pretty much what it says on the tin. Links for design, typography, stock images and other stuff.

LibraryThing – Kind of like Amazon Books, but with the shopping very understated. Tell it what books you’ve got and it’ll tell you what other books you may like based on tags, scores, and “people who own this also own…”. Sort of like last.fm but for books. There are links through to amazon too.

.htaccess generator – An easy form based wizard for generating an apache .htaccess file.