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September 2013 Reading
Old fashioned but passionate rant against the idiocy of (especially Christian) religion and the enormous harm it has done. The rhetoric is quite grating and some of the arguments put forward are strawmannish, but still an enjoyable re …
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Video: Redesign — objectives
I am blogging about redeveloping this site. A quick update on the comments subsystem and using the very cool mutable serializer in Dancer. Then I talk about some of the site objectives. I get cut off when saying the final objective which is just to make the site responsive. I guess I should add t …
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Tech briefing: CSS book, Node.js and some other javascript tools
This is a writeup of my notes from my August reading day and might therefore be less coherent than my usual ramblings on the site. I read a book called Everything you know about CSS is wrong! and then moved on to some research on node.js which seems to be the thing that all the web hipsters are l …
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Why not name climate change disasters after climate change deniers?
I am not usually one for petitions, but I like the video that 350.org have made for their Climate Name Change campaign. It makes the point and takes the piss at the same time. Sure, it is a little US-centric, but replace Michelle Bachman with Nigel Lawson and … well, you get the idea. …
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Review — Ty Gwyn Medium Dabinett Welsh Cider
I have been meaning to try Ty Gwyn for a while now, it seems to be one of those emerging Welsh cidermakers like Gwynt y Ddraig who are making exciting and interesting ciders. If you think about it it is sort of surprising that Wales isn’t more f …
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Video: Redesign — Dancer, DBIx::Class and Syntax Highlighting
I am blogging about redeveloping this site. Today’s installment is a bit broken. As it turns out screenr cuts you off after 5 minutes! And I am a bit long winded. I delve a bit more into Dancer, the minimalist Perl web framework and talk a bit about DBIX::Class. Unfortunately screenr broke …
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Review — Polgoon Cornish Cider
A top-up cider this, to fill my cart when I was ordering Ciderniks Kingston Black the other day. I have not come across the brand before, but they say of themselves that they are Award-winning producers of Cornish wines, ciders and fruit juices. Their website is ve …
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Video: Redesign — templates and typography
I am planning to blog the process of redesigning and redeveloping this site. This is the first installment of the process. This week I am just focussing on how the site looks, and developing static blocks which can be included everywhere in the site. I’ve been using Twitter’s bootstrap …
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2013 site redesign
This site is almost 10 years old believe it or not. Which is a lifetime in web years. The frontend mostly runs of a pile of cgi scripts and HTML::Template files that have grown organically over the years. The backend is developed using the Catalyst framework. So, I’ve decided that it …
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Review — Ciderniks Kingston Black
I spent a fun night at a folk session at The Shoulder of Mutton pub in Wantage with nor and her folks drinking this stuff. It was just one of the 6 ciders in boxes that were perched atop the bar. I resisted the urge to try any others. And I promised, perha …
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