I’m really happy that I’m starting to see articles questioning the marketing value of social media. I’ve been using social media for over a decade, since before people used the term ‘social media’. As I say in my Twitter bio, I ‘live on the internet’. I’ve met my wife on the internet, and so on, [...]
I’ve been on a mobile/iPhone webapp kick lately. It seems like a nice area to work in, and it’s forced me to pick up a lot more JavaScript than I had before which is good. There are some amazing frameworks for making iPhone webapps. The first one I came across was jQTouch, which is a [...]
It’s election time in the UK. This will probably not be the last political post I make here in the next few weeks. At least this one is still heavily tech-related. It’s about the Digital Economy Act, which I wrote an angry letter to my MP about. (Incidentally – no response to that latter, although [...]
This weekend I’ve been working on an iPhone app which is entirely HTML, CSS, and Javascript. I’ve been missing script/server as an easy way to spawn a web server for testing on an iPhone. There’s a Python one-liner I usually use for this sort of thing, but I don’t otherwise use Python and figured it [...]
I gave a talk about Adhearsion, the Ruby VoIP framework that interfaces with Asterisk, to ScotRUG. You can see the video on Vimeo. The talk wasn’t too well-prepared, in particular I hadn’t tested to see if Asterisk was working properly on my netbook. Of course, it wasn’t, and so I couldn’t do a demo. The [...]
Apple launched the iPad and it was pretty much exactly what everyone was expecting. Depending on what model you buy it’s either a giant iPod touch or a giant iPhone, and I agree with Fraser Speirs – it’s the future of general-purpose computing devices. And that makes me so sad. I touched on the reason [...]
I have a mortgage with Northern Rock, a UK bank which collapsed (triggering the first run on a UK bank) a couple of months after we got our mortgage. It’s a bit of a nightmare, and one of the (many) things that I lie in bed thinking about at 3am when I should be sleeping. [...]
At work we’ve been trying to do more comprehensive release testing, on the basis that it’s a Good Idea to make sure our stuff works. Part of this is testing the deploy process. Our software is installed into Linux appliance servers that are used specifically for this one purpose. One of our products works well [...]
This article was originally published at Witchvox. At times, Technopaganism can seem like an almost invisible niche of Paganism. Mainstream books and online resources nearly always have a very heavy pastoral or rural slant and it can be very difficult to find real examples of everyday Technopagan practices. To help counter this, I am going [...]
I’m going to start by proposing the following: Doing it right > doing it wrong > not doing it at all. I do firmly believe that in terms of software development, test-driven development (or ‘test-first’, or ‘behaviour-driven’ development, which all seem to be variations on a theme) is the right way to do it. You [...]
