March 2012
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PHP Testing Resources for Wordpress Plugins
Since I’ve been developing a WordPress theme and plugins for the new website at work, I’ve been working with PHP quite intensively for the last couple of months. For a lot of reasons, PHP isn’t my favourite language to work in, and the lack of testing culture amongst PHP programmers is really underlined by WordPress theme and plugin developers not shipping their code with tests,...
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npr:
“There are about 175 indigenous languages...
February 2012
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January 2012
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Restricting users when setting up a file transfer... →
In my role of Production Manager at Southern, I keep running across rather, shall we say “sub-optimal” server configurations for delivering masters, artwork and other very large files to manufacturers.
For example, one of the plants we have worked with has a single SFTP account for all their clients to upload their masters to. It’s not an append-only solution like an OS X...
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Fugazi Live Series: Los Angeles, CA USA 9/08/91
Dischord have started their release of the Fugazi Live Series.
Between 1987 and 2003, Fugazi played over 1000 concerts in all 50 states and all over the world. Over 800 of these shows were recorded by the band’s sound engineers. The goal of this project is to make each of these recordings available to download for a small fee. We will start with 130 shows and release more monthly until...
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The passing of Ronald Searle
My friend Laurent wrote to me to say that noted British illustrator Ronald Searle has passed away at home in Provence. Searle was the creator of Molesworth and St. Trinian’s and was very influential on other illustrators, including Matt Groening.
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December 2011
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“At least on the Web, you can amend. The ethic of the Web is to say what you know...”
– David Carr: A Media Omnivore Discusses His Diet : NPR (via thisistheverge)
This is a variation of the “release early, release often” directive in software development, isn’t it?
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Art and Craft in Film Editing →
A recent blog post on my pro photo site.
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The Pods CMS Framework for Wordpress →
We decided on WordPress about a year ago. We’d had some disastrous development done on Drupal prior to that—a completely failed undertaking which took a good chunk out of our budget for further development, and after we finished picking up the rubble, it became clear to us that working with our existing CMS was the way to go. No offense to Drupal, of course.
WordPress used to be just...
November 2011
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Creating temporary directories in Ruby
How can I easily create temporary directories (and files) in Ruby that won’t break the cross-platform compatibility of my script?
It took a bit of digging to locate this information, so I’ll post it here in the hope that the search engines will make it easier to find for the next person with this question.
The answer is to use Dir.mktmpdir, which will magically appear in the Dir...
June 2011
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Hard Drives for Apple Mac Pro RAID cards
Having been stung quite recently when Apple Support ceased when they noticed I was using Seagate Barracuda XT drives, I have done a little research into which hard drives are used (and supported) by Apple.
For the record, Apple refuses to support any hardware that was not bought from them on their RAID cards. See Apple’s site for more details.
The hard drives Apple has shipped to me are:
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August 2010
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A review of the Samsung N220 netbook (UK edition,...
Great for a Linux install (Ubuntu Netbook Edition 10.04)
I was looking for an attractive netbook with a good screen and good performance whose hardware would work well with Linux. I chose the Samsung N220 because of its long battery life (about six hours), lovely matte screen (no reflections from a glossy one), good set of connections for wired and wireless communication, and its large hard...