Garbage collection, in a very real sense
There’s currently no plan to switch off FM stations. In fact, many radio bosses have said oh, for heaven’s sake to the very idea. There is, astonishingly, less of a plan for radio switchover than there is desire among the general public for TV switchover. So that must be some sort of record for nothingness.
Seriously: [...]
I’ve created a small website for the driving instruction company who managed to get me to pass about eighteen months ago.
They’re great teachers and really highly qualified, as you can tell from the rash of logos on the homepage.
With the completion of the final story, to the point of general legibility, I can announce a provisional table of contents for my free-for-the-first-50 extravaganza of short stories:
Stones and Bones
Hidden depths
They glow, against the skin
Mortar dream
Stones and bones
O great computer!
Sense of place
A chat with relatives
The parable of the innkeeper
Want a free copy? Ask me [...]
Skip intro - or three types of copy the world will never miss
… Did you think I typed in your URL so I could watch a movie? Duh! I want information and I want it now. Only a fool actively erects barriers between a potential customer and his content…
I have a suggestion for a more [...]
At Torchbox we’ve recently been building a website for Welsey-Barrell, a bespoke furniture maker’s, whose workshop is located in Ducklington just south of our offices. This site is now live:
Wesley-Barrell: the country’s leading maker of classic, quality furniture, built without compromise to last for generations… Wesley-Barrell benefits from being a family business as it provides [...]
Last year I released a collection of short stories called A Pocketful of Lies. Anyone who wanted a paper copy could get one delivered for free, and in early 2007 I released the PDF online too.
This year I’m doing the same thing, with a themed collection of almost entirely new work: Stones and Bones. More [...]
Say you want to see both the log and diff of a given svn version, just the differences between it and the previous version, plus log message (i.e. what was committed, and why, for version NUM) The following will work at a bash command prompt:
$ r=NUM; rr=-r`expr $r - 1`:$r; svn log -r$r; svn diff [...]
Oxford Geek Nights have got a mention in the November 2007 issue of .net magazine. The whole article by Mark Boulton isn’t available online, but it discusses the resources that are available for freelance hopefuls, and how events such as OGN and dConstruct (yes, it mentions them in the same breath; yes, in that order!) [...]
The OGN juggernaut rumbles on towards the fourth Oxford Geek Night. Keynotes have been confirmed:
Tom Steinberg, founder of mySociety
James Gardner, co-founder of the Pylons Web Framework
We’ve also (as you can see above) got the website sorted out, alongside the Upcoming event. How l33t are we?
Imagine you have a Drupal site: I have several, so that’s easy for me. Say you’ve got an index aggregating lots of your content in a listing, and it spans lots of pages. It’s probably a view created with the views module, slicing through your content in a special way.
Drupal has a core paging module [...]