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Differential Progression by Alex Kavanagh is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
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Linting coffee-script in Emacs
I’ve been doing a lot of node.js recently, and I started editing coffee-script in my favourite editor which is Emacs. Now one thing I use regularly in Emacs is flymake-mode which essentially provides a set of hooks that are activated … Continue reading
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The facebook problem
When a for-profit company gives you something for free, with little chance of ever charging, you have to ask, “who is the customer and what is the product?” Facebook has (reputedly) 500 million users, none of whom pay a penny … Continue reading
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Tagged Facebook, Free Software, Open Data, Privacy, Twitter
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MyIET – not another networking silo, please
The IET, or Institution of Engineering and Technology, is introducing ‘MyIET’, which is a member’s personal portal on the IET website. However, it’s also got status updates like twitter, a discussions and comments forum, etc. It looks like they have … Continue reading
Putting CM6 (Android 2.2 Froyo) on a UK Vodafone HTC Magic
I’ve got an HTC Magic by Vodafone in the UK. It’s a very nice phone. Unfortunately, it is also abandonware. It is now virtually out of contract. And before I rooted it and put CM6 on it, it was stuck … Continue reading
Banks: the problem with ‘too big to fail’
We hear it time and again. Such-and-such bank is too big to fail. To me, that simply means too big. A bank failing needs to be like a ripple in a pond not like a tsunami crashing all before it … Continue reading
Abandoning Twidroyd
Twidroyd/Twidroid is a Twitter application for the Android platform. I really quite liked it, until they were bought by Tweetup. Why? Well, during the name change they added a huge EULA. However, the important part is (highlighted part by me): … Continue reading
Local councils having a busking policy?
Bizarrely, in the news today (17th June 2010) it turns out that Exeter has a policy for busking in the city. Stunning, isn’t it. Apparently, said buskers have to audition for a place in the city so that they can … Continue reading
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About Googlegate
I was reading this at El Reg. I like Privacy International. I share many of the same values but I’m not sure that Alexander Hanff has any idea of how code is written at Google. I don’t, but I’d hazard … Continue reading
Migrating Mail – Part 1
At the time of writing, June 2010, I run my own mail server. I started running my own mail server when commercial providers didn’t have good spam detection, didn’t store much mail and weren’t as convenient as using your own … Continue reading
Opinion: To iPad or not to iPad?
This is the first of two posts on Apple. This one deals with their consumer products, the iPad, iPhone, etc. The second deals with how I perceive they are relating to developers. Cory Doctorow wrote an interesting opinion piece on … Continue reading