git log and git show and in particular two of my favourite existing tricks:In this case, I’m working with the second option, so I’m pushing to the upstream repo. I’m also pushing to a live repository as well, so I thought I’d outline the commands I’m using. The setup here is the main github repo, and I have my own fork of that, which is cloned onto my laptop. I can push to both that main repo, which I’ll call “upstream” (because the github documentation does and it makes sense!) and another repo that I’ll call “live”. All in all it looks something like this:
To get around this, I used their API to make a page which lists my bit.ly bundles, and creates shortlinks for each of them (once you’ve created a shortlink for a given URL once, bit.ly just re-uses the same ones the next time you ask to shorten the same URL, so this is less silly than it sounds).
In case the code is helpful, I thought I’d share. Continue reading
The idea is that we bring together a bunch of interested developers plus a few people who know something about some of the technologies which are often used with LAMP but aren’t part of the acronym – and work on … whatever you want to work on! Between us we’ll be able to advise on choosing and implementing new technologies for solving particular problems, troubleshoot some sticky issues, and maybe whip up some new projects to give you a chance to play with something new and shiny!
If you want to join, you can get tickets (but be quick, there aren’t many left) on eventbrite: http://lampandbeyond.eventbrite.com/ – see you there!
My first attempt at benchmarking the two versions produced this:
I’ve recently been thinking that I should also do a better job of linking through to the various talks I’m giving/have given – and at around the same time I was contacted by the good folk at mojoLive about integrating against joind.in. To cut a long story short, the joind.in API now has the functionality for users to retrieve their list of talks! Continue reading
Factorials are a very easy maths concept. They are written like 5! and this means 5 * 4 * 3 * 2 * 1. So 6! is 720 and 4! is 24.
6! is the same as 6 * 5!, or 6 * 5 * 4! … and this is where the recursive functions come in. Continue reading
I navigate the web using the Keyboard Navigation extension in Google Chrome, which is what is adding all the little labels you see in the screenshot above. Install the extension, and press comma. The labels will pop up, then you type whichever character(s) show next to the thing you want to “click” on, and off you go.
It’s super-simple, and easier to use than I expected. Why don’t you try it out on your own sites? You’ll get a sense of how the web looks from where I’m standing :)
OSCON is special because I have always wanted to go and never imagined it would actually happen. Every year I read the list of sessions from the year before, and decide that I absolutely must submit to the call for papers, regardless of how small I think my chances of being accepted are! I’ve submitted a couple of times in the past, excluding last year because I was newly freelance (OSCON does not cover any speaker expenses at all, they just give you a conference pass. That’s kind of hard going for those of us self-funding halfway across the world, and last year, I just couldn’t do it. This year I still can’t really justify it but I’m going anyway!) Continue reading
