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Damian Nicholson Welcome to my blog! I work at Orange Bus as a web-developer and have been building websites for around a year now. When I'm not glued to a computer screen I like to see live bands, read and play my guitar. Want to learn more?

06 November 2009 ~ 2 Comments

Moving to WordPress

If your not reading this as part of your RSS feed, then you’ll have noticed that my blog has underwent a face-lift. I’ve moved back over to WordPress from the Ruby on Rails powered blog I started almost a year ago. I stress back over, because my very first blog which I retired a [...]

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19 September 2009 ~ Comments Off

Getting Things Done Right with The Hit List

I realised earlier in the year that my collection of post-it notes on and around my desk didn’t cut it anymore. I needed something as simple but more scalable. This led me to being in the market for a task management tool, and I finally decided on The Hit List.
Similar to the increasingly popular Getting [...]

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25 July 2009 ~ Comments Off

Bill Karwins thoughts on Zend Framework

I think ZF has become too complex. They have so many points of configuration possible, but they don’t give enough documentation or sensible defaults to guide new users. It’s gotten out of hand.

Bill Karwin – Jun 19

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27 June 2009 ~ Comments Off

Command Line Tip Continued

If your anything like me, your always navigating between the same set of directories. Well here’s a tip that I picked up recently which makes that task a little easier.
If your navigating away from a directory you know your going to want to get back to, this command pushes your current directory onto the stack.

pushd [...]

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08 June 2009 ~ Comments Off

Sky Plus Fail

This has happened to me on more than one occasion:
I recorded a program on the family Sky+ box last week, and started watching it yesterday. Five minutes into the hour showing, I realised that I had forgotten to run an errand, forcing me to stop the playback and get on with my business.
When I returned [...]

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