Category Archives: Computing

A Few Kind Words 3

“What I had wanted to do with muscle and meanness had been deftly accomplished with but a few kind words.” Terry Dobson in Aikido Surprise

Becoming a Python Programmer 2

I’ve been working at Potato for 3 months now. They’re a Python shop and I’m slowly but surely becoming a Python programmer.

The Buddhist Geeks Conference 2011 4

“You are totally double rainbowing my world.” Nikki Chau (@dragonc)

Mounting Rackspace Cloud Files locally 0

Since writing this I’ve discovered Cloudfuse, which, seeing as it’s designed specifically for the task at hand, might be more suitable.

How I elasticised my web app 0

By ‘elasticising’ I mean, separating the heavy application logic from the lighter website logic in such a way that under high demand it is a simple matter of firing up new application server clones to cater for the increased load. The other significant benefit of this is that by placing the most significant application load [...]

Underscore Skillswap 2

At 7pm, on Tuesday, November 30th in The Pervasive Media Studios, Bristol there’ll be a traditional Underscore skillswap on the subject of Social Network Application Development.

Integrity 0

Sandalwood is considered the epitome of excellence, imparting fragrance even to the axe that cuts it.

Frintr 0

A week ago today I launched Frintr. It’s a project, of my own inception, that I’ve been working on for 10 months. The basic gist is that you create a mosaic of your own profile picture from all the smaller profile pictures of your friends from Facebook, Twitter and Myspace, which you can then have [...]

MySpaceID SDK and PHP 5.3 0

If you’re trying to get the MyspaceID SDK working in PHP 5.3 then you’re going to need the updated version of the Janrain OpenID library instead of the version that it ships with as default.

Lenny, Nginx, FastCGI and Symfony 2

Running Apache on 256MB of RAM is not ideal and when I started worrying that my VPS might not be able to cope with sudden spikes in traffic I decided to give Nginx a shot.