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His Girl Friday
Being a child of the '80s I missed a lot of 'classic' films and have tended to shy away from anything in black and white unless I can't be bothered to change channel or move away from the TV, but t...
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'no such file to load -- readline' error with Rails script/console
Having just hit this issue on my server where I'd recompiled Ruby from source, apparently on doing so you need to compile the readline library yourself as well. There's a good how-to at dirk.net (...
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Royal Naval College, Greenwich
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London in December
I haven't been posting photos often enough here, so time to start catching up. This was taken from the London Eye in December last year.
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CarouselJS: turn your lists into nice carousels
My former colleague at bragster, Andy Dust has just released a beta of his CarouselJS script, which helps you turn a list of items into a rotating carousel. It seems to work very smoothly and asid...
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'Recently viewed' at emusic
I've been an emusic subscriber for a few years now and aside from helping me find a fair bit of cool music, they have some really nice interface touches, a new one of which I just noticed tonight: ...
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"That's clever" moments in Rails
Given that for the past two-plus years my full-time job has been largely as a designer and front-end developer with bits of back-end coding here and there, I haven't been able to keep fully apace w...
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In-browser WYSIWYGs and lost work
I was just writing a blog post about pointing your own domain name at your OpenID but towards the end the whole lot got lost thanks to TinyMCE not supporting command+left cursor for jumping to the ...
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Snow!
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UX London
Clearleft launched their UX London site just before Christmas. The line-up looks awesome. Jared Spool and Jeff Veen were both great at SXSW this year and I'd love to see the others speak too.