I should have forseen this,
Damian: “Craig, come check out my jQuery slug generator, it’s literally a few lines of code…see if you can break it!”
[Craig jumps in my chair, opens Firebug, deletes the element and trundles off to his desk to do some more work]
Damian: “Errrr…”
Last Saturday, I attended BarCampNorthEast at the Centurion in Central Station. To say the least I had a blast! It was great meeting lots of new people and finally being able to put names to faces. I’ll definately be signing up for next years event!
Also I’d like to say a huge thanks to Alistair and [...]
A while ago you may have noticed that I removed the need for users to complete a CAPTCHA before being able to post comments. My reasons for this were twofold:
Due to the nature of half decent CAPTCHA’s, I think they set the barrier to entry too high as contributing to a website should be as [...]
For a good while I’ve been using a particular gravatar plugin to fetch gravatars for the people who leave comments on my mighty fine blog here. Unfortunately I found it to be restricting and the documentation poor. So rather than digging about the code to see how I could manipulate it to change the default [...]
I’m still a noob when it comes to the shell so I tend to pick up new things all the time. As a result I thought I’d share one which I’ve found mighty handy – !!
sudo !!
!! is the magic that reruns the previous command. In this instance, I am prepending sudo to my original [...]
