Articles tagged 'blogging'

Mmm... sandwich Sep 29 2006

This is genius.

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Blogging His Ass Off Sep 24 2006

My boy Mike is blogging his ass off apparently, in his all new blog. He’s got a couple of decent posts up there to start, and I’d keep your eyes peeled for some more to follow. Welcome back, dude!

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I'm back Aug 13 2006

So the regular visitors to blogs.eldiablo.co.uk (if there are any) will have already noticed the redirects in place to ensure all requests to the blog end up at its new home: www.crazycool.co.uk. This will be the new home for my personal blog, so everything from code, to rants, to observations on life and politics. I quite like the new design I stuck together for the blog, and I’m going to be building on it to eventually include widgets for easy access to archives, searching, recent comments, and my personal blogroll.

The blog software itself is a totally overhauled version of Scrawl, and this time its so customizable I can truly do whatever I want with it. I’m going to be testing this for a while longer now my own blog has gone live with it, then I’m going to be throwing it open to a few select people who can run their own sites hosted using it. Then we’ll see where else it goes :-)

Because of the overhaul, I haven’t blogged much recently. I’m going to try and get back in the swing of things with some more regular blogging, especially now I’ve got a kick-ass site to do it on ;-)

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Sideways Blinders May 27 2006

So it’s been a long time since my last post - far too fucking long. Lots of shit has happened in the month or so since the last time I bothered to blog anything, so expect a good few catch-up posts. In the meantime, some kind of summary is in order.

Last time I posted I was in the middle of a five-day UML course - it was good, I learnt a lot, but I’m yet to really put any of it to use, and so I’m hoping I’ll find an opportunity to do so (where it makes sense, not where I’m doing it for the sake of doing it). Also, the lack of decent modelling tools makes me chuckle somewhat, all of them are either shite, or are too expensive, claiming to be able to practically write the fucking applications for you based upon a couple of class diagrams. That’s not the purpose I want to use UML for - I want to use it as a way to get down on paper the architecture and structure of libraries and apps that I dream up in my head. It then acts as decent system structure documentation. I then build it myself from that, and undoubtedly because code is code, I’ll realise along the way my original structure wasn’t perfect. I’ll amend, re-think, and re-iterate. Agile development seems to work perfectly hand in hand with this idea, small iterations, tighter development cycles. I’m starting to really dig it.

So what else? Well I’ve moved house now - after what must have been 7 or 8 weeks of playing the solicitor shuffle, I finally moved in with my girlfriend, into the house we bought together. It’s been a very busy time, and I’ve loved every minute of it. I’ve built more furniture in the last few weeks than I ever have done in my previous twenty years combined. We’ve been moved in two and a half weeks now, and there are now no boxes, everything is pretty much tidy now, it’s amazing. Actually scrub that, my girlfriend, Andie, is amazing. I’m responsible for getting TV’s, PC’s, audio systems, broadband, telephones (the easy stuff) up and running, but she has been stunning at tidying, cleaning, getting everything in tip-top shape. I’m a lucky, lucky man.

Speaking of broadband, it took longer than it should (fucking monopolies) to get the phone line up and running, but then I got the broadband sorted out fairly quickly, and so now have a wireless network setup with all my machines up and running again. I hadn’t been able to work on anything for around two weeks, so now I’m edging back into it, tackling a few little things first before I delve headfirst once more into my massive bag of ideas and continue working on a few of the big things I had planned before the move.

That’s it for now, expect more soon.


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Commentary Apr 25 2006

Ok comments are back - simply look at an individual post on my blog now, and underneath, an “Add Comment” section has appeared. Simply enter your comment (just a simple textbox for now I’m afraid) and who you are, then hit “Comment!”. I’m going to be doing some serious development on the entire software soon and commenting will be done properly - but for now at least it’s an arbitrary way for any readers wishing to comment, to do so.


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Visitations Apr 10 2006

Just a quick note to say that I’ve now had well over 100 unique visitors to the blog this month so far - not a massive amount, but much much better than previous months - and it’s only a third of the way through the month! I’m going to keep trying to blog regularly, as I’m enjoying it, and if anyone else gets something out of it too, then that’s a good thing :-)


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So true it makes me cry Apr 4 2006

This is a funny post, however it’s so true it actually smarts a little. I’ve been the developer on the end of it, the recipient of the nonsensical buzz words, lingo, quizzical looks and random remarks. It is obviously some kind of global experiment into the limits of a developer’s mind, the level’s at which he or she cracks and loses it. I’m sure this is just the beginning - I bet middle management types could write entire book’s of this kind of material :-)


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Link blogging Apr 4 2006

Ok, in order to cut-down on the amount of link blogging I’ve been doing, here’s a post with the rest of the links I’ve been wanting to get off my desk last few days:

  • MSBuild Community Tasks Project - a collection of community written, useful MSBuild tasks
  • Scott Hanselman’s experiences of toying with an experimental Monad Subversion provider, as part of the AnkhSVN project
  • More Monad/MSH related tomfoolery - a tool for working with and scripting with MSH, MSH Analyzer
  • Some kind of uber-guide / set of articles on home studio recording, and how to get a decent setup together (sound engineering and home recording has always interested me - I’m going to organize my thoughts, so expect more on this soon)
  • iFolder goes open-source!
This is it for now, enjoy the links.


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Aesthetics Mar 18 2006

Few minor updates to the blog software yesterday evening, resulting in only a few visual changes, but giving me even more power over the design. After the last round of changes I made I still wasn’t satisfied with the level of customization that could be achieved, but now I think that pretty much anything should be possible with it! For the time being I’ve kept the changes modest, over the next few days and weeks I’ll be making some design changes to the blog, and also hopefully launching a few sites using the software, all with differing designs ;-)


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Ride the 'Vine Mar 4 2006

So I see that Newsvine has launched. Sweet. I’ve been involved in the beta test going on for the last eight weeks or so, and now the site, its features, and its content, is available to all. Such a great idea, and with a really nice implementation, it’s feature set has already grown since when I first started using it, and with more improvements planned, it’s got a bright future. Come on in and ride the ‘vine!


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Formatting issues Mar 4 2006

Just updated Scrawl to fix some formatting issues I was having earlier with new posts and line breaks. Hopefully the posts will now appear a little better formatted. Also, the Technorati post I made earlier should now include my Technorati scriptlet (my picture, and a link to my profile), as I have claimed my blog!


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Technorati madness Mar 4 2006

Just need to claim my blog again because the url has changed, easiest way to do this is to wang this script in a post, so here it is!



You may now go about your business again.


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