Muffinresearch Labs by Stuart Colville

About the site and the author

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Muffin Research Labs

The name of this site was inspired by the late great Frank Zappa who’s studio is called the Utility Muffin Research Kitchen. In addition to this Stuart has a penchant for blueberry muffins so there wasn’t any other name that would have been right.

This site is all about every aspect of web development with a heavy bias on Python, JavaScript and Open Source Development.

About the author

Raised by wolves in Alaska, Stuart was brought back to the UK by the 1979 Anglo-French Alaskan expedition. From there he caught up in language skills and proceeded to move ahead through life. Fast forward 31 years and Stuart is now working as a QA Engineer for Canonical within the online services team who are responsible for Ubuntu One, a set of cloud-based services for the Ubuntu Linux Distro.

Previously Stuart worked for Global Radio, as a Django Developer and before that at Yahoo! as a Senior Frontend Engineer, working on the Yahoo! front-page and marketplace teams.

So far several of Stuart’s articles have been used as recommended reading for various web development courses in Universities and colleges in the USA and this site is read by web developers from all over the world. Stuart regularly attends conferences and events relating to web development and has also spoken at several industry events on various subjects related to web development

Stuart resides with his fiance Sandra and their 7 year-old daughter Emma, 3 year-old son Sean and 1 year-old daughter Molly in the garden of England otherwise known as Kent.

Note: The views on this blog are those of the author and do not represent the views of the author’s employer.

Using Loggerhead with mod_wsgi|(0)

Here’s a post I wrote over on the Project Fondue Blog about our use of Loggerhead with mod_wsgi under Apache. Loggerhead is the rather nice branch viewer for bazaar branches as used on Launchpad.net.

If you’re not already subscribed to the Project Fondue blog feed then I can recommend it, as there should be some interesting posts coming out of there in the coming months (yes I’m unashamedly biased!).

Ubuntu: Turn off changing workspace with mouse wheel|(1)

I found the changing with the workspace with the mouse wheel really annoying. To disable it go to System => Preferences => CompizConfig (available if the compizconfig-settings-manager package is installed) and uncheck “Viewport Switcher” which is under the “Desktop” heading.

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