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01
JAN
2008Hello world!
Hello, and welcome to my new website Svn-checkout.co.uk. With it I hope to show you the benefits of using version control for your projects, and hopefully show you a few handy tricks....
Blogged by admin @ svn-checkout.co.uk
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02
JAN
2008ASP.NET Developer Position - Manchester UK
Hey, One of the companies I work with are looking for some skilled ASP.NET developers. ...
Blogged by Plip @ weblogs.asp.net
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02
JAN
2008Geek rant (again)
So, the government is trying to update the computer misuse act. In theory that's a good thing as it'll mean the law stays relevant. However, I've just read this on the reg (wh...
Blogged by nige @ nigel.spowage.info
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02
JAN
2008in-place editing in Rails 2.0
During the holiday break this week I decided to fix up one of my old projects and get it working under Rails 2.0. Things went well until last night, when I tried adding Ajax-style in-place editing to one of the forms. It doesn’t quite work as advertis...
Blogged by Kevin Rutherford @ silkandspinach.net
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03
JAN
20082 new portfolio items
I’ve recently added 2 new websites to my portfolio. These projects show a step forward in my design skills which I have been trying to improve as of late....
Blogged by phil @ imgiseverything.co.uk
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03
JAN
2008Black sheep guest DJ
I'm the guest DJ at Black Sheep this coming Sunday. If you fancy hearing what I consider to be happening tunes* then get yourself along.Blacksheep:7pm-11pm, the Subculture, Merrion St. Le...
Blogged by nige @ nigel.spowage.info
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03
JAN
2008Oh yes, don't forget...
In case you somehow missed the community spamage...http://community.livejournal.com/dark_radio/26149.html...
Blogged by nige @ nigel.spowage.info
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03
JAN
2008What's in store for 2008?
Hi,Happy New Year to all our BT BizBox users.Over the holiday period we have continued to develop new functionality for BT BizBox.2008 is looking to be an exciting year for BT BizBox with the first rollout of new functionality thi...
Blogged by Sarah @ btbizbox.com
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04
JAN
2008Sohu Launched Open Widget Platform, Partnered With Netvibes
1st Jan, 2008 is surely a big day for Chinese Interent. Sohu (Nasdaq: SOHU), a household portal site officially announced its Open Widget Platform, partnered with Netvibes.com. The first Sohu Open Widget Developer Forum was also held at 3rd Jan. Many infl...
Blogged by Gang Lu @ mobinode.com
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04
JAN
2008Time Loop Flash Game
Cursor * 10 is a great Japanese Flash game that gives you ten lives, and you have to co-operate with the things you do in all the previous lives to get through to the end. It’s not a particularly hard game, but it gets your brain going and might tak...
Blogged by Peter Cooper @ petercooper.co.uk
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04
JAN
2008Crudy Giuliani...
...is 'Ready'. A hateful, cynical and manipulative movie trailer ('...a people perverted'?) or a political ad from a candidate who could only get a 6% election erection?...
Blogged by Imran... @ imran.ali.name
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04
JAN
2008The Purpose of Un-usability and Fluffy Dice as Social Objects
I love listening to informal chat with experts, probably more so than reading their carefully crafted books. Don always surprises me with some bizarre insight or other. The last time I saw him he was showing off his totally unusable watch (it was very fun...
Blogged by admin @ everythingability.com
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04
JAN
2008The Long Tail 2.0
Reading Don Dodge on how Why 1% of search market share is worth over $1 Billion and how AOL with only 5% of the market shouldn’t pack up and go home quite yet, makes me think that the Long Tail makes an awful lot more sense, when it is a BIG JUICY L...
Blogged by admin @ everythingability.com
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04
JAN
2008Social media marketing invented in 1851
Via BoingBoing I found these gloves… Finding Our Place in the World, which to me are painfully beautiful on so many levels. Firstly, they are a well-made beautiful object (more so than the fluffy dice mentioned earlier ever could have been). Secondly th...
Blogged by admin @ everythingability.com
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04
JAN
2008From Getting Things Done to Why Should I Bother?
I’m a big fan of to do lists. I start a new one every week whether I’ve finished the last one or not! A theme that is fermenting furiously for me at the moment is about widening. By that I mean when thinking about a site or service, I find myself wan...
Blogged by admin @ everythingability.com
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04
JAN
2008If Food is the next iTunes are Ben & Jerry’s the next Apple?
I mentioned widening context earlier today and how it creates huge opportunities. Because it’s the new year I feel like making a few predictions, the area of music has been done, I reckon the next sector to have it’s iPod revolution is food. Take a lo...
Blogged by admin @ everythingability.com
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04
JAN
2008Medical Oddities
I was surfing Google trends and wondering at how and why medical oddities was at position 30.Google Trends: medical oddities, Jan 3, 2008 and read a harrowing story about twins being circumcised (unusually by burning rather than snipping) one of which wen...
Blogged by tom @ theotherblog.com
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04
JAN
2008Information wants to be free (as long as you click the ads)
There seems to be a bit of hoo-ha this week about Scoble attempting to download his contacts from Facebook, getting caught and then getting barred. Arrington asks if he is the only one who thinks Scoble should get his knuckles rapped (for breaking Faceboo...
Blogged by admin @ everythingability.com
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04
JAN
2008Pre-emptive Traffic Jam avoidance with TomTom
Interconnected Matt, in his roundup of 2007 talks about Coke Continuous Change… (at the end)… Vending machines on the street sell mixed smoothies. Each machine is populated with a selection of 8 from dozens of base fruit smoothies. There are 10 opti...
Blogged by admin @ everythingability.com
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04
JAN
2008Reputation
Seth says… The truism of the web: people talking about you is far more effective than talking about yourself. It’s easy to keep a track of your reputation online when you don’t have one. As I said to fellow BarCampers, Web2.0 is at heart, a symp...
Blogged by admin @ everythingability.com
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04
JAN
200837signals (and DHH) love Xen
37signals, the team behind popular productivity apps such as Basecamp, Backpack and Campfire, recently posted some stats which make fascinating reading. Of greater interest to us, though, is their use of Xen virtualisation for parts of the server infrastr...
Blogged by Jeremy Jarvis @ brightbox.co.uk
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04
JAN
200837signals (and DHH) love Xen
37signals, the team behind popular productivity apps such as Basecamp, Backpack and Campfire, recently posted some stats which make fascinating reading. Of greater interest to us, though, is their use of Xen virtualisation for parts of the server infrastr...
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04
JAN
2008Everything Everythingability for 2008
After a period of inactivity (or looking at it another way, being busy) I have just had a blog-brain dump (excuse the smell) over on my Everythingability Blog, the contents of which now contains…. Reputation (buzz creation and buzz monitoring) Pre-...
Blogged by tom @ theotherblog.com
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04
JAN
2008SQL Bits March 2008 - Sessions Loaded, Get Voting
1st March 2008 sees the next SQL Bits Community Conference which will be at the Aston University Lakeside Conference Centre; the organisers are expecting around 500 people for this exciting one day 4 track - 20 session conference. Proposed sessions a...
Blogged by Andrew Westgarth @ andrewwestgarth.co.uk
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04
JAN
2008Unwanted gifts 're-homed'
It seems that eBay is doing a brisk trade in unwanted Christmas gifts - so much so that the auction site is even offering free upgrades to new sellers who start flogging stuff before January 9th. Reporting that about 1......
Blogged by Sarah Hartley @ blogs.manchestereveningnews.co.uk
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04
JAN
2008Computer Science is not about Computers
On the back of my business cards I have 10 quotes which on discovering them the first time, I found to be something that resonated with me, and that I hope might resonate with potential clients, business partners and friends. The first of those...
Blogged by Paul Robinson @ blog.vagueware.com
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04
JAN
2008Free online training courses
Hi all,Last year I announced our plans to hold free online training courses for BT BizBox. This is just a reminder that these sessions will be starting next week on the 9th January. The initial sessions cover ...
Blogged by Sarah @ btbizbox.com
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04
JAN
2008josm usertools plugin
Just developed a plugin for JOSM, the OpenStreetMap editor to help work with authors/ users. Has some basic functionality at the moment, but will get more stuff, especially as more of osm work is quality control, and networking with nearby users. It has...
Blogged by tim @ thinkwhere.wordpress.com
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04
JAN
2008ECBattle, A Web-based Real Time Strategy Game Approaching Private Test
ECBattle, a web-based Real Time Strategy (RTS) game is approaching private test. According to Jimmy Chu, the founder of Nethop Limited, the owner of ECBattle, the private test is aimed to start at mid-March. Jimmy Chu founded the company in September 2007...
Blogged by Gang Lu @ mobinode.com
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05
JAN
2008Atlas Maior And My New Hobby
Quite by chance it appears my latest hobby is collecting interesting books. I’m not really the collecting type, as the only things I’ve collected since my teenage years have been the rather banal DVDs and CDs everyone tends to accrue. With boo...
Blogged by Peter Cooper @ petercooper.co.uk
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05
JAN
2008Famous in one year, a has-been in two
Looking through the interesting “Fifty Most Influential Bloggers” reminded me of an old Internet magazine from 2000 I was flicking through the other day before I threw it out. It had the “top 50″ most influential people in the UK&#...
Blogged by Peter Cooper @ petercooper.co.uk
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06
JAN
2008ActionScript 3 timeout problems when working with XML
I was getting the following error while developing my doodle flash application using ActionScript 3.0: 1502 A script has executed for longer than the default timeout period of 15 seconds. I tracked the problem down to a piece of code that loop...
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06
JAN
2008Quote #1
When I wonder if I’m wasting my time, I remind myself that some people choose to be missionaries, preachers, or priests, and that wasting merely ninety-nine percent of my time is better than going for the full hundred....
Blogged by Peter Cooper @ petercooper.co.uk
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06
JAN
2008Helping hand for life
IF the New Year has found you puzzling over the meaning of life and wondering where to go from here, help is at hand from blogger Jolly Roger....
Blogged by Sarah Hartley @ blogs.manchestereveningnews.co.uk
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06
JAN
2008Short Route to Madness: Theme Block Chaos
Usually when I create a Drupal site I set the admin theme to Garland: it saves time if I don't have to theme screens only a few people will use. But not all the admin pages will use Garland, so one time I started using ...
Blogged by james @ grumpymonkey.co.uk
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06
JAN
2008New functionality for the New year.
Hi All,Today we have rolled out new the document creation tool. This is a great new tool, which allows you to generate your own customised documents and upload them to the BT BizBox application. Each automatically generated document is stored in th...
Blogged by Sarah @ btbizbox.com
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06
JAN
2008The trouble with Ruby on Rails
Normally I wouldn’t talk about Ruby on Rails on this blog. That geek talk is found on the tech blog instead. But, despite being about Rails, this isn’t a tech post. It’s about a problem that you will face when trying to hire a Rails developer. Rai...
Blogged by Rahoul Baruah @ 3hv.co.uk
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07
JAN
2008Black Sheep setlist
8-8:30pmEverything goes cold - I've sold your organs on the black market to finance the purchase of a used minivanDeathboy - SlipPJ Harvey - DressChameleons - Swamp ThingTatu - How soon is nowLuxt - Safety DanceSn...
Blogged by nige @ nigel.spowage.info
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07
JAN
2008Getting touchy, feely at the Consumer Electronics Show
It’s likely that “natural user interface� is a phrase we’ll all be hearing more of this year. Bill Gates used his keynote speech at this year’s tech fest that is the International Consumer Electronics Show to focus on the...
Blogged by Sarah Hartley @ blogs.manchestereveningnews.co.uk
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07
JAN
2008In soviet russia, the monitor hits you!
The Asus LS201: Punchable ’scratch-proof’ monitor: … the Asus LS201 – a TFT monitor with a protective panel made of crystal-sapphire. Our Asus rep says not only is itÂÂ...
Blogged by Will @ willj.net
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07
JAN
2008The Sheep Market
At The Sheep Market, you can witness the fact that 10,000 were happy to be paid 2 cents to draw a picture of a sheep (facing left) using Amazon’s Mechanical Turk system. The Mechanical Turk is a site that let’s you ask people to do tedious ta...
Blogged by tom @ theotherblog.com
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07
JAN
2008Yes! 50 Secrets from the Science of Persuasion
I’m currently reading Yes! 50 Secrets from the Science of Persuasion and loving it. I went into to Borders with the intention of buying a different book but was totally bowled over by the cover and the title. I sat in a comfy chair leafing through M...
Blogged by tom @ theotherblog.com
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07
JAN
2008Data protection ?
Clarkson helps a thief to £500...
Blogged by nige @ nigel.spowage.info
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07
JAN
2008Could You Pass 8th Grade Science?
Well, could ya? I got 88% correct, or a B+.  How embarrassing :)  Scores in the comments please! ...
Blogged by Will @ willj.net
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07
JAN
2008Yet Another Online Editor · Buzzword
Here’s Yet Another Online Editor called Buzzword, that is quite impressive. Of course it’d be a lot better in my opinion if they had a “Save to Blogger” or “Save to Lulu.com” option, but still, it’s worth a look...
Blogged by tom @ theotherblog.com
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07
JAN
200810 Rules of Thumb to radically improve your Ruby on Rails code
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Blogged by Baz @ made-of-stone.blogspot.com
