Author: simonwheatley
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Quick thoughts for 2008-01-15 (via Twitter)
Just "invested" in Windows 2000 and Windows 98 for testing purposes. So much money just to test, still… it’s got to be done. # vi may be powerful, vi may be very very clever and better than anything else; that doesn’t alter the fact that it utterly mystifies me. #
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Quick thoughts for 2008-01-12 (via Twitter)
Loving the Alabama 3. I picked up their album ‘La Peste’ after hearing their session for Mark Lamarr again in his round-up of last year. # (Alabama 3 are best known for ‘Woke up this morning’, which is the title music for The Sopranos) #
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Quick thoughts for 2008-01-11 (via Twitter)
Just mounted a drive over SSH using MacFUSE and SSHFS, nice: http://tinyurl.com/2trsb3 # @everyone re SSH drives… I know! I’m a little ashamed about how exciting I think it is! # Ah, I’ve just realised that (of course) there is a Twitter user called @everyone and the only message on their account is inevitable really.…
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Confluence link to the current page
For my current Confluence project, I’ve used Adaptavist Theme Builder to customise the View/Upload Attachments screen and I wanted to add an explicit link “back” to make it easier for users to return to the current page. I could have used Javascript, and so much of Confluence depends on client side scripting that it probably…
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Confluence links to create pages from templates
I’m working with Confluence to create a wiki for travel agents can record their research holidays. It is hoped that their colleagues can use first hand experiences of the resorts to promote them. We wanted to have an easy and structured way for people to add pages, for which we’re using Confluence’s templates feature. Templates…
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Quick thoughts for 2008-01-10 (via Twitter)
Cool! You can drag tasks between to do lists in basecamp. # Writing technical blog posts takes *ages*. I’m exerting discipline now, and not publishing until I’ve re-read tomorrow and checked it. #
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Quick thoughts for 2008-01-09 (via Twitter)
Very funny analysis of Sony’s latest DRM free music offering: http://scalzi.com/whatever/?p=280 #
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Quick thoughts for 2008-01-08 (via Twitter)
Oooh. New Iain M Banks novel… must. resist. buying. hardback. version. #
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Quick thoughts for 2008-01-07 (via Twitter)
Working on projects which don’t lend themselves to version control, I’m looking at Confluence theme dev, is so nervewracking. #
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Quick thoughts for 2008-01-06 (via Twitter)
Amazing: a bus driver stopped for me, even though he’d started driving off, also he didn’t have any pass holders so I didn’t have to buy … #