You can click on the mockup above, to see a full screen view of the mockup. This mockup is part of a submission that Guy Dickinson of Participo and I are submitting for the UK Government’s “Show Us A Better Way“Â competition to create innovative and socially useful applications with Government data. Update: You can see …
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Phew. My calendar is synced to my phone again
My phone used to sync with iCal several times a day, but when I upgraded to Leopard it wiped my cron tab file and all that goodness stopped. (Your crontab file is a way of scheduling tasks on your Mac using the Terminal application.) I’ve just googled around for the solution and found it again:Â Use …
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Why do the trains have to stop?
Fantastic idea from China for a transport system where the trains don’t stop at stations, but where people still get on and off. Most of the energy in public transport is spent in getting the train/bus/tram moving again only shortly after you’ve stopped it at a station. So how do we remove this wasteful but …
Velocity Markup documentation
Velocity is a Java centric template markup language/syntax, and the documentation for using it seems a little Google shy for some reason… so, here it is, for me as much as anyone: Velocity markup documentation.
Problems with .htaccess and AFP over Netatalk
After yesterdays triumph of establishing contact with my virtual server over AFP, using Netatalk, I was perplexed today to find that my .htaccess files weren’t having any effect. Listing the files on the shared volume on my Mac seemed to show that they were there: ~$ ls -Al /Volumes/Home Directory/www/sites/jackspeak/site/ total 736 -rwxr-xr-x 1 simon …
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Specify the Finder icon with Avahi
Yesterday, I blogged about my various issues setting up Apple Filesharing on the Debian virtual server I’ve got running in Parallels. As of OS X 10.5, Leopard, the Finder has a shared area which shows the machines it’s discovered via Bonjour so you can easily connect to them. Today I got bored of having the …
Problems mounting a Debian drive over AFP
It took me ages to find the answer to this, so I figured I’d post the answer for posterity; hopefully between us, Google and I can help the next person avoid that hassle. I’ve created a Debian virtual server in Parallels for some development work. To ease the pain of mounting drives, I’ve configured AFP …
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Interspersing your post listing with date headers in WordPress
Update: OK, so at least one person wanted it as a plugin, so feel free to download Intermittent Date Headers. Here’s a code snippet that’s not really worth making into a plugin. It’s designed to put date headers into your main post listing page. As an example, you could end up with: Heading: March, 2008 Post: dated …
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Some good ideas from the government
Via Simon Dickson, I’ve come across Tom Watson’s1 post on Power of Information: New taskforce and speech. Some things quotes sprang out at me:
Simple Apache redirects
If you look around the web, you’ll see endless tutorials on how to configure Apache to do redirects using mod_rewrite. Undoubtedly mod_rewrite is a powerful way to control access and redirects on your Apache server, and it is enabled on many web hosts, but before you dive into the complexity and regular expressions of mod_rewrite, …