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 main [...]
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.
Northern [...]
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 to [...]
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 get excellent [...]
Many of the projects I’ve been working on aren’t terribly serious. Failcount couldn’t exactly be said to be the most important endeavour mankind has undertaken. If it’s used heavily within a group, I suppose it could have a worthwhile purpose, to see when people are overly stressed, but that’s kind of incidental.
This last week, though, [...]
Ages ago I registered urbanpaganism.info, and set up a basic wiki for a community I’d set up for people who practice Paganism in urban environments and were fed up the usual hippy clap-trap advice like ‘grow plants in a window box’ and ‘visit the countryside’ when it came to experiencing Paganism in the city.
It never [...]
