Archive for the 'patter' Category

un homme qui dort review

Tuesday, November 11th, 2008

nice intro to the dvd released last year of this amazing film. nice stills too!

oh wow!!! Johnny Mathis Chic LP has surfaced after 30 years embargo!

Monday, November 10th, 2008

“Just to let you know on 9 November between 5 and 6 pm GMT on Jazz FM Radio the Johnny Mathis single “I Love My Lady” is to be played by DJ Ralph Tee as a special favour to me. He’s actually got the whole album but because of legal reasons is unable to play […]

language - it’s all good!

Monday, November 10th, 2008

Haha!
At the end of the day, what does it really mean? I personally think it’s fairly unique if an individual can speak eloquently using any phrase, let alone these. However, at this moment in time, English language use is awful. It is absolutely horrifying what you hear today… it’s a nightmare! They shouldn’t of put […]

Oulipo style, a nice little simple app written in Cake - quite fun.

Tuesday, November 4th, 2008

http://binspiration.com/
complete a sentence for 15 seconds of fame.
Get going!

a cartoon

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

a wry one…

bbc iplayer on series 60 s60 nokia phones

Friday, October 10th, 2008

http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/news/item/8196_BBC_iPlayer_for_S60_goes_live_.php
read the comments to get it to work on your symbian phone…you need to adapt the app-min.js file in the download zip.

orlando

Thursday, October 9th, 2008

http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/615
orlando furioso in english released at gutenberg!

prototyping

Thursday, October 9th, 2008

2 website prototyping releases:
Pencil (why isn’t the Pencil?* ) http://www.evolus.vn/Pencil/
and Balsamiq
http://www.balsamiq.com/products/mockups/desktop
not sure whether omniGraffle isnt the best one though…
* because the Pen is

mephisto install - Rails blog

Thursday, September 25th, 2008

Mephisto is a slick Rails based blog… http://www.expressionlab.com/2008/9/17/installing-mephisto-0-8-on-rails-2-1
Hatem gives a wee tutorial on getting it going with Rails 2. (NB it is only 2.0.2 it works with , not 2.1 as mentioned)
Kule

cakephp checkbox default checked value snippet

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

so for a job vacancy form, I need to ask user if it requires a closing date as some jobs won’t. (they will alwys be looking for casual staff etc…)
so I added a field to my DB with default 1 (true therefore) and only later realised I would have been better just to reverse the […]