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Get Computers To Solve Your Problems

The world is in a bit of a state at the moment. People are panicking and they're scared. Far be it for me to suggest that poor leadership might be at least partly to blame. I never learn lessons from other people's mistakes so how can I expect the people who run the country to do it?


It's good to have a development platform again

I'm enjoying coding again. And it's a little weird.

Hits from the Pong

I wrote a blog post over on our highly corporate company blog which has two whole posts on it. It's

Think before you buy Coda for iOS

Panic released Coda for iOS yesterday, and it looks pretty excellent (Panic are very skilled at making things look good). However, for a lot of people, it will be missing something huge - any kind of environment.

Tessel

Next to the rpi for a size comparison Tessel finally arrived. I say "finally" but I believe it

An Automator Folder Action for Screenshots and Dropbox

Photos of dogs and cats and leaves and horizontal lines will be back soon.

yet more effort toward keeping config out of git

It seems that I spend most of my waking life concerned about keeping usernames and passwords out of

bit tumblr-y, but a quote

Non-developers often assume an application is invariably more valuable with a feature than without i

Store git activity in MySQL with PHP

Git hooks are saving me so much time and providing me with interesting solutions to problems I didn'

Managing multiple working copies with git

We have a CMS at Buffalo, which we have deployed to several servers for a few of our clients. Until

trying an un-annoying lightbox

Lightboxes are really irritating. No users I ever speak to like them, but all website owners love th

that's a big one

Transmitting file data .............................................................................

I must write out 1000 times...

Copying directories resets permissions Copying directories resets permissions Copying directories r

impress yourself

Just recently, I realised how important impressing yourself is when trying to maintain enthusiasm wi

Unit testing

This is something that's been in my peripheral vision for some time now. I've periodically been stru

git or Versions.app with MacVim diff

I've seen on the Versions Google group, there's a python script for integrating Versions with MacVim

an open letter to Sony

Dear Sony, if ((int) $month === 2){ if ($year % 4 === 0) $daysinmonth = 29; else $daysinmon

steal buffalo's planner slider in mootools and css

On BuiltByBuffalo's Proposal Planner, we use a much-revered slider thingy that we've had a lot of co

a rookie mistake, a programming challenge and a fresh start

It's gone. 4 years and 30GB of photos gone because of a stupid lapse in concentration. All my origin

PHP 5.3, iconv, OSX, Symbols Missing _libiconv

I'm not sure how many people will have this problem, but I did so this will remind me. PHP 5.3 rele