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New Adventures 2012 – Self Help for Web Designers

Ian — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 22:38:53 +0000

Last week, like many others working on the web, I took the trip to Nottingham for New Adventures 2012. I’d seen the wonderful praise dished out for it last year and felt like I wanted to see what it was … Continue reading →

Goodbye 1 & 1

Ian — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 21:06:46 +0000

I just sent the following email to 1 & 1′s billing department. I’ve been with them for coming up to 7 years now and they were, when I first used them, the only registraar I knew about and I was … Continue reading →

Pagination in CouchDB Apps

Ian — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 23:40:41 +0000

I’ve been working on some fun little node.js / couchdb projects of late. Given the fact I don’t use either as part of my work, I’ve spent some downtime experimenting and slowly iterating my approaches as I learn best practice. … Continue reading →

Hosting an Octopress Blog on Amazon S3

Ian — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 15:11:13 +0000

Octopress is a framework for blogging based on the static site generator jekyll. In short jekyll takes markdown and turns it into blog style html ready to be served straight away with Apache whilst Octopress dresses it up nicely with … Continue reading →

Lovefilm Filmstream Plugin v0.2

Ian — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 23:10:17 +0000

Just a quick note to say I’ve updated the plugin that generates my filmstream pages. It’s become obvious that the Lovefilm API only exposes the last 10 features that you’ve rented in their “at home” list. This isn’t that great … Continue reading →

Participate, Don’t Preach

Ian — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 12:16:59 +0000

Last week, tickets went on sale for dConstruct 2011 and sold out within an impressive 7 hours. Having attended in 2010 and 2008 and judging it to be filled with the highest calibre web celebs from across the globe, I … Continue reading →

Maintaining References to Sockets with Express and Socket.io

Ian — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 13:01:26 +0000

I hit a frustrating problem when trying to use expressjs alongside socket.io recently. The solution may seem somewhat trivial, but I struggled with it for a while, until finally asking for help on the socket.io irc channel. I’m not sure … Continue reading →

Updating WordPress Automatically over SFTP

Ian — Sat, 07 May 2011 22:43:54 +0000

Heres a quick how to on getting wordpress to update over SFTP. On a default install of php, wordpress only gives the option to update over FTP. I wanted to get it working as it’s more secure and means I … Continue reading →

A Survey of Hype in Web Development Podcasts

Ian — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 20:47:53 +0000

I listen to quite a few web dev podcasts. Something that irks me about a lot of them, is how much they tend to hype their own shows, products or the like. Sure, they’re allowed to, it is their own … Continue reading →

Blog rolling with CouchDB, Express and Node.js

Ian — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 13:42:53 +0000

Over the last little while, I’ve been doing a lot of playing with Node.js, mostly to run data collection scripts. Last week, I started following Ciaran Jessup’s tutorial on getting started with node.js, Express and mongoDB. Express acts as a … Continue reading →