General
A spot of ad irritation for the morning
I just got driven temporarily insane by the advertising for Rockband on colleghumor.com. Like a number of entertainment/portal sites, they have ad deals where an ad effectively takes over the backg...
Journal
General
Github is go
The cool Git repository host and online interface, GitHub went officially live today. It does mean paying now for private repos, but I have no problem with that - it's a great service and they're a...
General
Wordpress upgrade
Just upgraded to Wordpress 2.5 and let it go back to the default theme rather than the rubbish blank one I've been running until I can get around to doing a proper design.
General
iPhone development and CSS3
I just bought an iPhone and so, naturally, being a web developer I've started looking at what can be done with iPhone apps. Having a look at one of Apple's demos (iPhoneButtons) reminded me that of...
General
M&S and being green
A year ago, Marks & Spencer announced a 5-year plan to become carbon neutral. This was a good thing. I have an M&S credit card, so every month they post me my credit card statement. The ...
General
Control multiple computers with one mouse and keyboard, without a KVM
Reading about Thomas Baekdal's cool new home office setup, one of the comments pointed to a cool app that lets you share your mouse and keyboard with other computers (Windows, Mac and Linux) called...
General
To Austin we go
The entire bragster team is off to Austin, TX in early March for the South by Southwest Interactive festival. Should be fun!
General
Ruby on Rails 2.0 is go
The official Rails blog has the announcement that Rails 2.0 is done and great news that is too. Now I just need to find the time to eventually catch up on all the changes and start playing with it!
General
Make obvious software, not simple software
Brian Oberkirch has been on a bit of a blitz of great posts about social networking today (and I'm not just saying that because he picked up on bragster supporting hCard import yesterday). The o...
General
hCards come to bragster.com
Having mentioned I wanted to implement proper hCard support on bragster.com, the opportunity arose much sooner than expected. Having played with the mofo Ruby gem over a weekend, it became obvio...