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About Blogging About Work
01 August 2006
Read moreUntil now, I’ve avoided blogging about work in pretty much any way. I’ve written about technical stuff that have come up at work but I haven’t written about much beyond that sphere, and even that is only so that I don’t have to hunt for the …
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the trouble with being tall
01 August 2006
Read moreI’m tall. Not landmark-sized but well above the average for a woman (5’11’). My role model is Allison Janney who is taller than me again and interviews wonderfully on the subject of tall women. I’d like to outline the main points of having this personal feature.
Good …
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Workplace Eating Arrangements
21 July 2006
Read moreIts a funny thing but the smallest details when you are looking for a job are actually the most important. I’ve never actually asked to see inside the ladies when I’ve been at a job interview but I’ve always wished I had once I got the job …
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Lucene search functionality - following on from crawlers and spiders
23 June 2006
Read moreThe search functionality works!!
I have PHP 5.1.2 on a Windows XP machine (I know, I know, its my work desktop) and Zend Framework preview release 1.3. I’m using it to index the files in a local copy of DokuWiki – this is an easy starting point …
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The Beauty of Vim
20 June 2006
Read moreI work with vim and its fabulous. Although I’ve been a casual linux shell user for some years, I’ve never had to get to grips with vim as my main editor which I’m using eight hours a day until now. And I love it.
Cheat Sheets
Its …
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Opera's Favourite Icon
14 June 2006
Read moreI’ve been getting wound up recently by Opera spamming my apache logs with errors about missing favicon.ico files. So here’s some instructions for removing this annoying default behaviour:
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crawlers and spiders - take two
13 June 2006
Read moreI made some progress with getting Xapian set up, but not to the point where I was all ready to go. I’m not all that familiar with C++ and somehow I lost the will to live somewhere along the way this afternoon.
PHPDig
I should mention PHPDig here because …
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TikiWiki and Oracle
12 June 2006
Read moreWell, TikiWiki claims to support Oracle … great! So I’ll install it, and try it.
(insert comedy failure noise here)
The installation doesn’t work! Mostly because you can only name oracle things with names of less than thirty characters in length, and this product doesn’t respect that when …
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crawlers and spiders
12 June 2006
Read moreIts monday morning, and I’ve just reviewed the suggestions for storing information for the team that I put forward earlier. My boss is going to go with me on DokuWiki but for some reason the lack of database-backend is making him nervous. The search functionality is currently absolutely fine …
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Thoughts of Wikis
09 June 2006
Read moreI’m implementing a new information-keeping system where I work, and trying to find something that will fit in with a number of requirements. Here’s a quick summary of the task and how I’m getting along:
Requirements
- Allow text
- Allow attachments (files and pictures)
- integrate with existing extranet …
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I've got a Google Analyltics account
06 June 2006
Read moreYay! My invite arrived this morning for google analytics. I’ve got this site and one other all hooked up to it and will wait and see how it all turns out. Both sites are very low traffic but that’s OK.
So far the features are good, I needed …
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Recognising your Manager
22 May 2006
Read moreSomeone who provides neither direction nor support for my project when I ask for it is not my manager – no matter where he apears on the org chart
I saw this on The Daily WTF