Muffinresearch Labs by Stuart Colville

Archives

2008

May

06 : DJUGL: Django User Group London

05 : Sweet Keyboard

05 : WSG London Findability

04 : Scrolling issue in Leopard cured with PRAM reset

04 : VMWare Importer for converting Parallels images

April

27 : Python: Debugging with PDB

24 : Best use of Arduino ever

24 : mac tip: Lock screen and pause iTunes

21 : Starting a new job

08 : Google App Engine

08 : Automatic asset versioning in Django

07 : Avoiding the use of .htaccess for performance

02 : pwdn: show last n dirs of current directory

01 : Mac OSX tip: ls command color output

March

27 : hListing unleashed

24 : Drive By South By

09 : Django: Switching between development branches

04 : From the command line to your clipboard and vice versa

04 : IE8 will now render as IE8 by default

February

23 : SXSWi 2008 ical schedule

15 : Does setTimeout solve the DOMContentLoaded problem?

10 : EU Hackday 5: Django and Python FTW

05 : Python: Keychain.py access to the Mac OSX keychain

05 : Sqlite: ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN fail on OSX 10.4

01 : CSS Sprite Generator code available at launchpad.net

January

24 : Using git with Django’s SVN repository

15 : Macbook Air launched, but will it fly?

14 : Beautify JavaScript from TextMate or CLI

2007

December

17 : Bazaar 1.0 released

13 : Nokia Multimedia Transfer for Mac

12 : Microsoft buys Multimap

11 : Howto: Debrand and Flash a Nokia E61

08 : Presentation: De-centralised Version Control with Bazaar

05 : xkcd on python

November

29 : Windows Vista: Require users to press Ctrl+alt+del to login

27 : Python or PHP?

27 : TweetyPy needs an icon

20 : Running a Safari 2 Standalone Alongside Safari 3

18 : Control your Wii à la Minority Report

12 : Extracting a single file from a tar backup

08 : Using ’select’ for multiple choices in shell scripts

October

16 : Python: Transposing Lists With map and zip

September

28 : Case Insensitive File-systems and Bazaar

27 : CSS Sprite Generator Tool

25 : Showing last two directories of pwd in BASH prompt

25 : Amazon launches DRM free MP3 service in the US

09 : SXSWi Panel Proposal: High-Performance Web Development Techniques

03 : Soho Coffee

03 : Update on WSG London

August

30 : BASH Tip: Alternative to expr for arithmetic

16 : BASH: Open FileMerge from CLI

14 : Contributing to projects on Launchpad.net with Bazaar

02 : Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection Beta

July

24 : Orange has FAIL

13 : Is NetNewsWire trying to tell me something?

12 : Bazaar Lightning Talk

10 : Sneaky hfs_fsck post reboot

June

12 : Before you go and install Safari 3.0 on your mac

05 : Dealing with Text Conflicts in Bazaar Version Control

May

29 : Multimap opens up it’s API to developers

28 : Shawn Lawton Henry on WCAG 2.0 in London, 5th June

25 : Mark all mail as read in mail.app

23 : Parallels tip: Pause VMs to conserve resources

18 : May Web Standards Group JavaScript Meetup

15 : Parallels tip: Upgrading to Ubuntu Feisty from Edgy

09 : WSG London JavaScript Meetup

April

26 : Online and offline development with the YUI and Charles

22 : Bazaar Version Control

17 : Podcasts for WSG Accessibility Meetup now live

17 : Quicktip for mac: turning capslock into control

12 : My Cousin’s photo stream on Flickr

05 : Encrypt your homedir on your mac without FileVault

March

24 : TweetyPy: Python-based CLI client for Twitter

20 : Twitter from TextMate

19 : Using PHP CLI for TextMate commands

18 : That was SXSWi 2007

12 : SXSWi 07 Notes: WaSP Annual Meeting Takin’ it to the street

12 : SXSWi 07 Notes: The Growth and Evolution of Microformats

12 : SXSWi 07 Notes:Ajax Kung Fu Meets Accessibility Feng Shui

12 : SXSWi 07 Notes: Uniting the Holy Trinity of Web Design

12 : SXSWi 07 Notes: Antisocial Networking, Dealing With Online Abuse

12 : SXSWi 07 Notes: Blogging Where Speech Isn’t Free

12 : SXSWi 07 Notes: Mapping: Where the F#*% Are We Now?

12 : SXSWi 07 Notes: Web Hacks: Good or Evil

12 : SXSWi 07 notes: Grids Are Good and How to Design with Them

12 : SXSWi 07 Notes: The influence of Art in Design

12 : SXSWi 07 Notes: Writing Better

12 : SXSW07 and the Texas State Capitol

07 : SXSWi 2007 ical

02 : WebDev Toolbar Beta 3 for IE

01 : After the WSG London Accessibility Meetup

February

21 : FOWA Notes: How we Turn Virtual Stuff on the Web into Beautiful Things in the Real World - Moo

21 : FOWA Notes: Netvibes Announcement - Tariq Krim

21 : FOWA Notes: PHP on Hormones (Application Development Using PHP) - Rasmus Lerdorf

21 : FOWA Notes: The Future of Mobile Web Apps - Daniel Appelquist

21 : FOWA Notes: How and Why We Built Google Docs and Spreadsheets - Jonathan Rochelle

21 : FOWA Notes: The Future of OpenID - Simon Willison

21 : FOWA Notes: Managing User Interface Design - Khoi Vinh

21 : FOWA Notes: The Future of the the Browser - Chris Wilson

21 : FOWA Notes: Enabling Next Generation Web Apps In and Beyond the Browser - Mark Anders

20 : FOWA Notes: Crowd generated media - Kevin Rose

20 : FOWA Notes: Spotlight Sessions

20 : FOWA Notes: “User” Rehab: A story of redemption - Bradley Horovitz

20 : FOWA Notes: Lessons form Building The world’s largest social Music platform - Last.fm

20 : FOWA Notes: Everything you need to know about Venture Capital - Ben Holmes

20 : FOWA Notes: Commoditisation of IT and What the Future Holds - Simon Wardley

20 : FOWA Notes: Fostering online communities - Tara hunt

20 : FOWA Notes: The changing face of online communities and communication - Edwin Aoki

20 : FOWA Notes: The Magic formula - Mike Arrington

20 : Future of Web Apps London 2007

11 : WSG London Accessibility Meetup

06 : Moved server and fixed WordPress 2.1 Blogrolls

January

30 : BASH: Single-quotes inside of single-quoted strings

30 : Media Temple Grid Server

19 : SSH SOCKS Proxy

19 : MacFUSE: sshfs for your mac

10 : Apple iPhone

04 : Web Developer Roles at Yahoo! Europe

01 : Dedicated server recovery mode

01 : Happy New Year

2006

December

28 : Bug: IE7 absolutely positioned italics

20 : Compiling mod_python for MAMP

14 : Automatic merging and versioning of CSS/JS files with PHP

13 : Basic DOMTool Tutorial

November

28 : DOMTool

27 : No more iframes?

24 : Crestock Photoshop Competition

22 : A medicinal revolution.

15 : Sean Antonio Monteiro Colville

10 : BBC Backstage London Christmas Bash

08 : Updating extensions for Firefox 2.0

03 : Ubuntu Edgy under Parallels Desktop for mac

02 : YUI Bundle for Textmate

October

27 : O2 thinks Camino is out of Date

26 : Export Microformats to your phone from your mac

25 : Run Firefox 2.0 and 1.5 side by side

25 : Disco Beta Review

24 : Getting relative form actions with javascript

21 : Following the WSG Microformats event

19 : Last call for the WSG London Microformats event

16 : Six useful shell commands for web developers

15 : vim tip: Fix the cursor keys echoing characters in insert mode

09 : Concatenating & minimising JavaScript Files in TextMate

08 : Emulating right-click in windows under Parallels Desktop

05 : WSG Microformats Thursday 19th October

04 : iTunes pegged my CPU at over 130%?

September

25 : Back from Provence

24 : Opera Backstage Event, London

August

31 : Customising TextMate with commands

30 : En vacances

29 : Emma’s 3rd Birthday

20 : Redirecting subdomains to directories in apache.

20 : Air Jaldi Summit in Dharamsala

17 : October WSG Meetup: Microformats

13 : Running Ubuntu under Parallels Desktop for Mac

08 : Watch the Apple Keynote address

July

31 : Re-map the apple key for Windows under Parallels

31 : Geek in the Park

28 : LockTight utility for Intel Macs

27 : It’s going to be a boy!

19 : JSON Selects

19 : Bug when creating select options using innerHTML in IE

17 : After the first WSG Meetup in London

12 : Joining Yahoo!

05 : Gmail adds select all conversations feature

June

29 : Web Standards Group London Meetup Update

26 : Beginning JavaScript

23 : Whassup with Google Analytics?

22 : Camino 1.02 Released

22 : Opera 9 released

21 : 29 Today

17 : That was @media 2006

16 : @media2006 Notes: Hot Topics Panel

16 : @media2006 Notes: Andy Clarke, Transcending CSS: The Fine Art of Web Design

16 : @media2006 Notes: Nate Koechley Y! v. Y!

16 : @media2006 Notes: Molly Holzschlag, Internationalisation: Awakening The Sleeping Giant

16 : @media2006 Notes: Robin Christopherson: Beyond a code audit

16 : @media2006 Notes: Dan Cederholm: Bullet Proof Web Design

16 : @media2006 Notes: Jeffrey Veen: Designing the Next Generation of Web Apps

15 : @media2006 Notes: The New Accessibility Guidelines: WCAG 2.0

15 : @media 2006 Notes: Chris Wilson: IE7 and beyond

15 : @media 2006 Notes: Jeremy Keith: Using DOM scripting to Plug the holes in CSS

15 : @media 2006 Notes: Eric Meyer Keynote

14 : @media2006 Starts Here

13 : Use Tabs in Textmate for Files Opened Via Transmit

08 : First Web Standards Group Meetup on Friday 14th July

01 : What external hard drive do you use?

01 : Keeping ssh connections alive

May

31 : Being a Dad

23 : Alternatives to terminal.app on mac OSX

16 : Apple MacBook is let loose

09 : Closest equivalent to NetNewsWire on Windows

04 : Loopy Control Structures

April

29 : getElementsByClassName Deluxe Edition

29 : From Rentokil to Multimap.com

24 : One, Ten, Five?

21 : Friday Afternoon Videos

20 : What does your bookshelf say about you?

17 : Create your own Google Talk Theme using CSS

15 : Bite Size Standards Launched

13 : Moving hosts: one more time with feeling

12 : Element Ready

11 : Opera and NTLM Authentication

06 : Apple Boot Camp software for XP installation

04 : Off to work for Multimap

March

30 : Don’t use Javascript to hide bad markup

30 : From DHTML to DOM scripting

25 : Moving servers yet again!

24 : Del.icio.us adds experimental private saving

19 : SXSWi 2006 Summary

17 : 9rules launches 9charities

15 : Notes: Designing the Next Generation of Web Apps

15 : Notes: How to Convince Your Company to Embrace Standards

15 : Notes: WaSP Annual General Meeting

14 : Notes: Microformats: Evolving The Web

14 : Notes: Web Standards and Search Engines: Searching for Common Ground

13 : Notes: Holistic Web Design

13 : Notes: Web 2.1: Making Web 2.0 Accessible

13 : Notes: Demystifying the Mobile Web

13 : Notes: How to Make the Most of Maps

13 : Notes: Sink or Swim. The Five Most Important Start-up Decisions

13 : Notes: Tantek Çelik Presentation: Creating Building Blocks for Independents

12 : Notes: How to Bluff Your Way in DOM Scripting

11 : Notes: How to Be A Web Design Superhero

11 : Notes: Traditional Design and New Technology

11 : The first couple of days in Austin

08 : My plans for SXSWi

February

27 : The move to WordPress is complete

21 : Moving to WordPress

15 : Google Acquires Measuremap

15 : Yahoo! launches UI library and Design Patterns

09 : The Future of Web Apps Summit Roundup

07 : CSS Drop Column Layout

06 : Upcoming Events

January

29 : Partial Image Replacement

25 : London Geek Dinner with Dave Shea

24 : Opera Mini Launched

17 : Google Earth For Mac

12 : Web Standards Survival Handbook Part One

11 : Intel Macs Unleashed

07 : Web 2.0 data recovery

05 : @media2006

2005

December

31 : Christmas in Portugal and Happy New Year

16 : Review of 2005

16 : Moving to Textpattern

09 : Expectations for Thunderbird 1.5

08 : Fun with multiple submit buttons

01 : Muffin Research Labs Joins 9Rules

November

30 : Firefox 1.5 Launched

29 : Beyond the graphical

25 : London Geek Dinner

22 : Dreamweaver lock files exposed

22 : Regex Buddy

18 : Moved to new server

14 : Deconstructing d.Construct

11 : d.Construct tomorrow

07 : Pickr: colour palettes from photography

03 : Settling in with my Powerbook

01 : Minor CSS Reboot

October

31 : Become a better Standardista

20 : The Lab goes the way of the Apple

18 : Ubuntu Breezy Badger install horrors

11 : Muffin Research out of control

11 : d.Construct 2005

07 : Destination SXSW 2006

September

26 : Dvorak’s comment spam fix

09 : New Rentokil Initial site launched and featured on Stylegala

01 : Table showcase site

August

23 : fscked up beyond all recognition

18 : Apple Bobbing

02 : Ubuntu Ubuntu they drink it in the congo

July

28 : Here is an update

13 : Return to the Source

07 : London Blasts

June

29 : Google Earth Launches

16 : Classes on the body tag

13 : @Media Day Two and where we go from here

09 : @Media Day One

07 : @Media coming up

02 : Azulejos Backgrounds

May

31 : Back to a leafy, green and damp England

20 : Off to Portugal

18 : Revenge of the Sith

15 : Funky caching for Joornal

10 : A beginner’s guide to CSS hack avoidance

06 : Leaving standards at the door?

04 : Veerle’s highpass filter action for Photoshop

01 : CSS Rebooted

April

20 : Google Maps for the UK launched

March

31 : Joornal development

29 : ClickSMS API class in PHP

18 : Tabmix 0.1.3 out now.. get it while it’s hot!

February

28 : Free from any artifical advertising.

January

27 : MySQL Tools from MySQL AB

25 : OOP PHP What are the benefits?

2004

December

12 : Using PHP to generate select boxes

02 : PHP tip of the week: Getting IP addresses

October

31 : Gmail utilities for easy access to Gmail.

26 : Sendmail Backup MX

20 : News: Moving on to pastures new and back-up mx

August

31 : Suspect SSH activity in server logs

July

16 : Mr. Mugo and the snake…

June

18 : Better simple site structure

12 : Hand-coding suits me sir!

01 : Prevent ampersands breaking validation

May

24 : Firefox Rendering fixed

19 : I’ve got my girls back!

18 : Captive in Portugal!?

15 : Check out the new version of Zeldman.com

15 : Linux command locate - useful for err… locating files?

14 : Radio Paradise