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Textile Knowledge Nuggets
18 May 2006

I’ve run into some problems formatting an article about markup, which I was writing in textpattern, which uses markup …. you can see where this is going. Well I learned some new tricks!

escaping from textile

To prevent a block from being processed, just use double equals signs around what …
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Apache FOP: formatting objects is fun
17 May 2006

I’ve been working on a tricky problem at work this week (and last week as well actually, its been really really tricky in fact), we need to be able to output a form in both PDF (Portable Document Format) and PCL (Printer Control Language) output, because our fax system …
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Buying AJAX
16 May 2006

I just saw this comment in repsonse to AJAX – is it a design pattern

My boss read an article about AJAX and said we should buy it. I smiled. She’s funny. She has lots of “For Dummies..” books.

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The Wool Shop
14 May 2006

I have recently moved to Leeds and am slowly starting to find my way around and build up some local knowledge. A very important ingredient in this process is my discovery that there is a great wool shop near where I live. Its so good in fact, that I have …
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Knitted Scarf/Wrap
14 May 2006

I’ve knitted a scarf! This is news because I although I like crochet and learned to knit as a child, I’m really not a very good knitter. This pattern was hardly knitting though. Its made with silly wool (Sirdar Frizz) and knitted on broom handles! OK so actually …
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200 crochet blocks
14 May 2006

I have a new crochet book! My mum had an “I saw this and thought of you” moment, and bought me this:

200 Crochet Blocks for Blankets, Throws and Afghans

Its a good book with a variety of different blocks (although some of the 200 are the same pattern but …
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Crooks and Hooks
14 May 2006

Well, just hooks actually! I’ve been wondering for a while where those photos of beautiful crochet hooks come from in the front of all the crochet books … they’re colourful and I want some.

After a bit of hunting around I discovered that these are Susan Bates hooks, and …
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Ringing the (password) changes
27 April 2006

I have milestones in my working life, I mark time by them. They help me to think quantitively about how much time has passed since a particular point in time or event. Its helpful because it enables me to think clearly about whether a colleague would have been involved in …
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Reading list for developers
13 April 2006

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000020.html

I came across this a couple of weeks ago, and have been thinking of doing some more “dead wood” technical reading so it has popped up at a good time. Technical books are good value in our house there are two computer …
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star programmer
20 March 2006

Star programmer, n.

A coder who you can’t write about without liberal use of the * key1

¹ liberally lifted from this hilarious post on one of my favorite blog sites.

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Creating Storage
19 March 2006

We’ve recently moved into (another) new flat, and we’re just kind of settling in and unpacking. Its a rented place so we can’t do much with it – we’ve brought shelves and sidetables and stuff and that’s about all we can do. Our bedroom is cunningly …
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Weekday Carbonara
15 March 2006

This week we kind of ran out of food … so here’s my recipe for improvised spaghetti something.

Dice two chicken breasts and place in a frying pan over a moderate heat with some oil.

While the chicken starts to brown, chop up a few slices of bacon into little …
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