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This is cool. It’s a very simple interface for pulling in data from multiple places (Twitter, Google Analytics and more) and displaying it clearly. The number of widgets is limited at the moment, but they’re still in beta (sign up, it only took a few minutes for my invite email to come through). As far as relevance . . . → Read More: Simple data visualisation Up till now we’ve been using Subversion for source control on our projects, but after finding Codaset, which provides one free private repository, we decided to try git for one of our new projects. Unfortunately I’m behind a squid proxy, which makes working with remote systems less than ideal, but I’ve managed to (through plenty of trial and error) figure out a way to use git through that proxy on Ubuntu 10.04. Continue reading Git on Ubuntu through proxy I shoved the lovely Disqus comments system on here a couple of days ago for two reasons: 1. It’s a nice system that allows for a single login across many sites. 2. I figured that it would help me combat the spambots that target WordPress sites. Turns out that point two is a fail – because Disqus is loaded . . . → Read More: Stop the bots? Obviously, the first thing I did when downloading the fabulous Coda Notes by Panic for the new revision of Safari was to go to John Key’s website and draw on a picture of him. To be fair, he looks like a fun party-mexi-pirate here. Pretty awesome. So nobody can take any offence. Anyway, I can see Coda Notes . . . → Read More: Sorry, John / thanks. We opened the gate to the new dunedinmusic.com store, buydunedinmusic.com, today. There may be still a few things to iron out still, particularly with the layout of certain areas when using Internet Explorer 7 and below, but we think it’s pretty spiffy. Reading this Guardian article was like watching a Monty Python sketch or something. I mean, it’s a joke, right? The back story is that 6000 Britons, most likely the ones having to deal with the pain of using IE6 (and more importantly, applications that depend on IE6), signed a petition asking the Government to upgrade. The Government’s . . . → Read More: The British government: The short-sightedness beggars belief Two posts from ReadWriteWeb that are an interesting read for someone like me who is more at home solving technical problems that thinking about how to massage traffic: http://www.readwriteweb.com/biz/2010/07/5-web-metrics-to-keep-a-close-eye-on.php http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/analysis_what_are_the_webs_top_sources_of_referral_traffic.php General gist of this, for me is that we shouldn’t be afraid of other content channels. We should continue creating content and throwing our name out, attached to that . . . → Read More: Traffic Dear television news, The internet is not a city of giant skyscrapers made of moving binary. You do not fly through it as you used to fly through techno-Novgorod in that old Apache computer game back in the day. You did not arrive there through a series of tubes that manifest as something resembling an . . . → Read More: The Matrix Just-released for nerds, YouTube have some new embed code that will play videos via HTML5 rather than Flash if it’s available on the browser. Now, normally I feel a little dirty using iFrames, but generally less filthy than I do when I use Flash. Also, I swear either Apple or Adobe are making it harder and harder . . . → Read More: HTML5 YouTube now embeddable Bought Fling for my iPhone, and I must say it’s a great way to kill some time. Everyone else probably already knows. I’m a bit slow. On Twitter, here the developers . . . → Read More: Flingin’ |
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