Tag: technology
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Abnib, Version 3.0
Abnib Version 1.0 was a funny little beast. It was built to accomodate for about half a dozen bloggers, but ended up with about nine or ten. It worked, though, and the principle of aggregating the blog entries of our friends and our friends' friends took off. Abnib 1.0 had a few major flaws: firstly, …
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Chef
Those who found themselves confused by my programming recipe the day before yesterday can now be a little less confused (hopefully): here's the explanation.
The program is written in an esoteric programming language called Chef, who's sole purpose is to be able to write computer programs that look like recipes. There are even competitions to write … -
A Challenge For My Programmer Friends
So you think you're a dab hand at learning new and unusual programming languages: even the most bizarre of them. You can get your head around Perl, and you might have even looked at LISP. Well, let's see who's first to correctly tell me what the output of the following computer program is. It's unique …
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The Rails Cafe
This Rails Cafe article made me smile. Rails really is a lot of fun. If SmartData gets the upcoming project I hope it does, I'll be pushing for Rails to be the development platform: the project would lend itself very well to it. Perhaps I'll hammer out a hundred lines or so in advance, in …
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Not Quite Where We Planned To Be
Claire and I are in Preston. Let me explain how this came about.
As I mentioned, we spent Friday night and most of Saturday in Gregynog, a beautiful stately home owned by the University of Wales and used as a conference venue. Every year, the Computer Science department ships almost the entirety of the second year … -
Ah; Friday…
In the words of Bender, "...another pointless day where I accomplish nothing." It's feeling a little that way. Last night's brownout knocked computers offline, and this morning BT severed a cable, depriving us of phones and internet access. It's an hour and a half into the day already and I've got nothing done so far.
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Duality
Duality, my main desktop PC at home, has been misbehaving, and I've had to take it to pieces, both virtually (tracing driver DLL calls - yum!) and physically (computer components littering the floor, etc.). It's been two years since it's last reformat/reinstall, which is a pretty long time for a Windows XP box treated the …
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/join #TheMatrix
Here's a geeky (well, geekier) retelling of The Matrix.
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Another Stunning Error Message
This time from Corel:
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E-Mail Server Configuration For Dummies
Well; I feel like a wally.
SmartData's taking on a new client for a content-managed web site, web and e-mail hosting. In anticipation of the domain transfer going through without a hitch, I reconfigured our web and e-mail servers to already be ready to accept connections to their "new" web site and for e-mails to come … -
Black & White 2 Installer
I've just been installing Black & White 2, and was quite impressed by the following screenshot:
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Writing A Calendar App In Rails Vs. PHP
Some time ago, I wrote a web-based calendar application in PHP, one of my favourite programming languages. This tool would produce a HTML tabular calendar for a four week period, Monday to Sunday, in which the current date (or a user-specified date) fell in the second week (so you're looking at this week, last week, …
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Magic Story
Inspired by Andy's PassThePageGame on the RockMonkey wiki - a collaborative storytelling game based on that silly game you used to play at school, I've written my own tool:
MagicStory is a collaborative wiki storytelling tool designed to be harder to "run away" with than normal wikifiction. Having read the story, participants can write a suggested … -
Rock Exchange
This weekend I hope to release Rock Exchange, my latest WikiGame on the RockMonkey wiki. I'm just finishing performing some tests and fine-tuning on it now. Here's a screenshot:
In Rock Exchange, players will be able to invest their hard-earned Rocks (a unit of currency) in shares in the various pages on the RockMonkey wiki. The … -
OpenID For WordPress
Update: 12th October 2007 - this project is to be considered abandoned. Please see How To Set Up OpenID For WordPress Comments instead. Thanks for the support and for your interest in OpenID.
THIS IS ALL HORRIBLY OUT OF DATE. THE DOWNLOAD LINKS DON'T WORK, I KNOW. GET OVER IT. More seriously now, I am …