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 [...]
I’ve tried previous versions of Safari only a handful of times, as I have been content with Firefox for at least 5 years. During this time period I’ve spanned across multiple OS’s, and the first thing I always did when transitioning to a new platform was to hit-up Mozilla for the newest release if Firefox. [...]
A few weeks ago I was a guest on the Mac 20 Questions Podcast where David Allen asks how my macbook pro fits in with my day to day life.
You can check out what I have to say here or download the file directly.
If you can’t be bothered to listen to the podcast, or can’t [...]
Contrast to what Sarat says, I am security conscious, as this post will demonstrate.
Even though the odds were against me as hardly no-one reads this site, for a long while now, I was paranoid that this space would be subject to some nasty hackage in the form of cross-site scripting(XSS). Rails 101 tells you to [...]
