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November 2013 Reading
I grabbed the ebook of astounding stories on a bit of a whim. But I have enjoyed it. Its proper boys own stuff, and reminded me of the sort of books that one used to find in my grandparents house. Hugely entertaining but …
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Bad sex media? Bingo!
The way that the media portrays sexuality is problematic. And there is a great project that points out the problems with the media view of sexuality over at Bad Sex Media Bingo. So Nor and I made an interactive version of it which now lives at badsex.tv. We made it …
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Quick tip: Find all image sizes ImageMagick and find
A super quick tip this. The other day I needded to find images bigger than a given width on the New Internationalist website. The quickest way I could think of to do this was to use find to locate all the files and combine that with ImageMagick’s identify command. And finally to pipe that t …
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Lunchtime hack: Google spellchecker on the commandline onliner
I was just talking to my colleague Pete about how useful Google’s Did you mean? feature is as a spell checker. It comes up with much better suggestions than other systems. So here is a quick lunchtime hack that uses the little-known Lynx browser -dump command and some Perl to make a comma …
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Magento tip: Working on success page without having to place an order
The other day I needed to make a trivial change in the checkout page in the New iNternationalist ethical shop. I always want to visually test a page before rolling it out live. I know how easy it is to mess up the position of an angle bracket or something! Normally you can only see the checkout s …
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Allow mixed https/http content on Iceweasel/Firefox 23 and above
Since version 23, Firefox has started blocking mixed content — pieces of an HTML page that are delivered over an insecure, unencrypted connection when browsing an SSL-encrypted page. Now this is probably the right thing to do. Most of the time. And there is a subtle little shield thingum …
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Redesign update — Code on gitorious
Just a quick update today. I’ve got round to putting the charlieharvey.org.uk Dancer code up on gitorious now, for anyone who is interested to nose about. Obviously I have made sure that config files are not present so it will no work as it is. And let’s face it the code is really onl …
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October 2013 Reading
The second of a couple of books I am reading about stats and the R language to support the Coursera I’m doing at the moment. In contrast to Navarros book which was a free PDF, I paid for this one. I felt that it read very much lik …
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Video: Redesign — popular pages, nav tree, about page carousel
This week in my site redesign video series I’ve been playing with the Twitter bootstrap carousel, working on the nav tree and taking advantage of Dancer’s dispatch to build a set of popular pages reports with APIs ad feeds. …
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Three paradoxes of big data, first thoughts
In a thoughtful piece in the Stanford Law Review, Neil M. Richards and Jonathan H. King consider the problems of big data — the analytics and monitoring data relating to our behaviour on the web and in other regions of the internet by state and corporate interests. Three paradoxes of big …
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