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The word final should never appear in filenames
See if you recognize this syndrome. There is a file you need to read. Maybe it has some important stuff in it. A contract that went through a bunch of revisions. That sort of thing. Only, when you go to the directory on your company samba share there are 30 files that it could be.Inevitably at lea …
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Lua — Day 1
Well, the first day of my adventure has been relatively straightforward and, aided by a little cider brandy, I have finished the exercises.The first of the seven new languages is Lua and the chapter covering it is written by Ian Dees. He compares Lua to Indiana Jones and tells a story of how Lua h …
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Seven More Languages in Seven Weeks: Introduction
Back in 2011, I took up the challenge of learning Seven Languages in Seven Weeks. The book is Bruce Tate’s tour through seven of the most interesting languages about.I learned about concurrency models, functional programming and the unique qualities of Ruby, Io, Erlang, Scala, Prolog, Co …
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Seven More Languages in Seven Weeks
Back in 2011, I took up the challenge of learning Seven Languages in Seven Weeks. The book is Bruce Tate’s tour through seven of the most interesting languages about. I eventually finished working my way through the exercises and blogging about it in early 2012, almost a year after starting. …
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Saturday at the 2014 Logan Symposium: my highights
On Saturday at the Barbican in London I attended the 2014 Logan symposium — a conference that was intended to bring together key figures in the fight against invasive surveillance and secrecy. The idea was to build alliances between progressive cyber-activists, hackers and journalists. Speaker …
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Video: What is internet? (1994)
I have a thing about old clips non-technical folks talking about the intertubes. Witness, for example The Kids Guide to the Internet from 1997. Here is a great piece from the archives circa 1994. I love the idea that @ is the about symbol. And that you don’7 need a phone line to …
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The home office of the future (1967)
Snarkasm, aka @wendy_ferguson on Twitter suggested this telling video, which is a 1967 glimpse of the home office of the future.Cheesy lounge jazz and anachronistic gender politics aside —the husband will arrange the financing of the wife’s purchases — the content is rather …
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SOLVED Nautilus is slow when browsing a Windows/Samba network
I recently hit an exciting and hard to solve problem at work, or at least my colleague and co-web wrangler did. You see at New Internationalist our office network is a mix of *nix, windows and mac machines. We use various Samba servers to host all our documents. So its pretty important to browse …
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All your base conference
tl;dr The All Your Base database conference in Oxford was great. I went to it. I recently went along to the fantastic All Your Base database conference which happened in Oxford on 23 November 2012. If you don't get the reference, then you ahould read up on the all your base are belong to us me …
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The New Microsoft Logo and the Death of the PC
tl;dr — Microsoft doomed; I don’t care about their new logo; Apple will be our new corporate masters I was reading the Hacker News a couple of weeks back and someone had posted a story from the Seattle Times that said that Microsoft had gained a new logo for the first time since 19 …
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Muffet: A Perl Web Spider
Muffet is a web spider written in Perl and Moose that I've put up on github, under GPL.
The problem that I was trying to solve was to spider …
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TwitterHaiku -- A Thing for making haiku from Twitter searches
TwitterHaiku lets you find a haiku-like tweet. That is to say that it finds 17 syllable tweets from the Twitter search API …
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Space Invaders
Following on from Pong, I had a crack at the arcade classic Space Invaders. This is a work in progress, so it may be volatile.
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