Recent articles

  1. Firefox buttons for Mac

    05 July 2010

    When developing Firefox extensions that add buttons to the Firefox toolbar, you’d be forgiven for thinking that Firefox would provide a default button image for you to build upon, allowing you to layer your button’s icon over the top.

    Well you’d be wrong. But worry not – I’ve made some blank Mac toolbar buttons that you can download and use.

    Download Mac toolbar buttons...

  2. Replication and Replica Sets - Dwight Merriman

    28 June 2010

    This is a write-up of Dwight Merriman’s talk on replication and the new “replica sets” functionality that is coming up in MongoDB. Dwight is the CEO of 10gen, the company behind MongoDB.

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  3. Making gitk look sexy on Mac OS X

    26 June 2010

    Does your version of gitk look like Windows 95’s ugly step sister? Would you rather it used native buttons and widgets, and a half decent font?

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  4. MongoDB Schemas: Data as Documents - Kyle Banker

    25 June 2010

    Kyle gave a brief overview of MongoDB and then moved on to discuss data modelling, when to embed documents and when to move them off into their own collections. The suitability of Mongo for use in e-commerce applications was also covered.

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  5. MongoDB Administration - Mathias Stearn

    22 June 2010

    Mathias Stearn from 10gen provided a lot of tips on administering MongoDB. Topics covered include how to keep an eye on your server’s performance, backing your data up, configuring replication and running Mongo in production.

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  6. Nesta gets a new design

    21 June 2010

    Before today I’d never been completely satisifed with the look of a freshly installed Nesta site. It wasn’t bad, but it was a bit rough and ready and the typography wasn’t that hot. The old default style is still available as a theme but moving forward Nesta has got a new look!

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  7. Fixing the Xcode Project Templates

    02 January 2010

    I recently upgraded my copy of Xcode and installed the iPhone SDK. A short while later, while following an example in the Pragmatic Programmer’s Cocoa Programming book, I found that my copy of Xcode wasn’t creating some key files.

    Find out how to fix it

  8. Ruby Manor

    12 December 2009

    Ruby Manor is one of those alternative conferences. It’s not run for a profit. It doesn’t cost a lot of money to attend (at £8 per head you pay just enough to cover the cost of the room and equipment), and the quality of the talks is consistently high.

    I spent most of the day typing frantically, but I didn’t manage to capture everything. The photos that are littered through my write up of the day are all thanks to @glenngillen from Rubypond, who was sat next to me snapping away.

    Read about the excellent talks!