Dominic Sayers
Friday, 30 September 2011
On the plus side, I'm deeply in love with ActiveSupport::Inflector - a perfect example of Clarke's Third Law
Did none of the geniuses behind Ruby or Rails realise that an app developer might want a field called 'type'?
Making an omelette. Eggs are going to get broken.
I live on the borders of Limehouse, Stepney Green, Bow Common and (shudder) Poplar so I have some sympathy with this: http://bit.ly/ai33Oo
Tuesday, 27 September 2011
On Sunday this thing http://flic.kr/p/6mnZG will be playing his first competitive rugby fixture
Monday, 26 September 2011
Posit. There's a word that should be banned.
Friday, 23 September 2011
Hint to me: take my mobile number off the Whois records
Van driver just called asking if I was @CloudFlare. My number is the top Google result for "CloudFlare E14" (hint to driver: try Telehouse)
Thursday, 22 September 2011
My computer just died violently with a noise like a gunshot. Frightened the life out of me.
I'm assuming a catastrophic failure of the power supply. It's always the power supply.
Wednesday, 21 September 2011
The Letting Go slides were from http://futurefriend.ly/resources.html (HT @ppk)
A primer on how the world is changing http://www.slideshare.net/yiibu/letting-go-9109114
Nice to know the flow isn't all in one direction http://britishisms.wordpress.com/
Monday, 19 September 2011
The CrunchBase API documentation has disappeared. I have recovered it & posted it here: https://gist.github.com/1226556
Friday, 16 September 2011
I made a little Android app for *my* bus stop using http://bus.abscond.org & Appsgeyser.com http://www.appsgeyser.com/77901
http://countdown.tfl.gov.uk <http://countdown.tfl.gov.uk/> is nice, but here's a lesson for TfL in UX: http://bus.abscond.org/stop/77346 (thanks, @abscond)
Thursday, 15 September 2011
Google+ has an API at last. Still no way to post though, so I can't tie it in to PixelPipe or ping.fm. Also...
Google+ API is JSON-based of course. I think we might soon be needing JSON equivalents of RSS, CSS, SVG and (whisper it) HTML
Wednesday, 14 September 2011
True story. Downloaded Windows 8, put blank DVD in my drive, computer spontaneously turned itself off.
Tuesday, 13 September 2011
The Android era was fun while it lasted. Shame (but inevitable) the big guys want to have their own bat *and* ball
Monday, 12 September 2011
Nearly getting the hang of Rails. Nearly.
O Chrome, what do you want with 48% of my CPU?
Ermmm, don't you think Search By Postcode might be a good idea here? http://sps2ksrv.towerhamlets.gov.uk/MeetYourCouncillor/Members.aspx/
Saturday, 10 September 2011
Thinking about going to see Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy next week, but it seems to be on in 2 places in the whole of London. Huh?
It's the exact 10th anniversary of me starting at Dresdner Kleinwort (Thanks @paulfarnsworth, @jobsworth & @dynjo)
Tuesday, 6 September 2011
Today I'm loving I18n interpolation in Ruby
Monday, 5 September 2011
People getting excited about the Fast Show should note that Higson has not said it's coming back to TV http://j.mp/mToELt
Sunday, 4 September 2011
Buses from outside my house: http://countdown.tfl.gov.uk/#|stopCode=77346 WIN! Thanks TfL /HT http://londonreconnections.blogspot.com/
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