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424 Blog articles in total, showing 171 to 180
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New Year, New Website
Huzzah! At 13:00 UTC 2013-12-31 I launched the redesigned version of charlieharvey.org.uk. So far it hasn’t broken that badly. But give it time. I have been blogging the redesign process for the last few months. Here are some of the new things about the site that I hope make it nic …
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Visualizing sorts with Hungarian dancing, animated robots and cards!
Here is a collection of my favourite videos visualising sort algorithims in different ways. They range from the possibly quite useful, to the slightly trippy to the hilarious. Enjoy.Everything makes sense now, right?_H_Bubble Sort vs Quicksort with a …
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API Documentation, just about ready to launch
A short update on my site redesign. I think that I am going to be able to make the beta version of this site into the live version of this site in time for 2014! I have just wrapped up documenting the Content API, and done some prelaunch tweaks. The Perl Dancer framework has been outstandingly ni …
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2013: My favourite books and reading stats
Last year I did a rundown of the books I read in 2012, mostly as I wanted to play with infogr.am. But also, let’s face it, because my propensity to navel-gaze craves occasional indulgence. This year I repeat the experiment in a yearly roundup of my reading habits… _H_Reading stats …
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2014 Reading
Here’s all the books that I read in 2014, by month. On the each month’s page there’s quick review or synopsis of each book that I read in that month. …
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Verbindingen/Jonctions 14 in Brussels
The Brussels-based collective Constant work at the intersection between politics, art and free/open source technology. I’ve just been at Verbindingen/Jonctions 14 — let’s call it VJ14, for the sake of brevity — a 4 day gathering aiming to provide a feminist review of mesh, …
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Beta site launched! Help me make it better.
Exciting news! My my beta site is live on the interwebs now. You can even read this article on beta.charlieharvey.org.uk. I decided to launch an incomplete version with bits missing and imcomplete in the hope of getting some feedback from the internets (i.e. you ;-) ). _H_Changing webhosts_ …
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The Frack Files: A freely downloadable guide to fracking
At New Internationalist magazine, where I work, the editors have decided to give away the whole centre section of this month’s magazine as a PDF.The Frack Files is a guide to fracking for concerned citizens, environmental activists and people who are just curious what all the fuss is ab …
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Oh shit! I started getting a million requests a month for a CGI script
Ages ago I made a little form that made it easier to get your twitter feed as an RSS. It just called the Twitter API and it was slightly useful for a few people, which was great. However, Twitter killed their old API and broke various things I’d made that pulled RSS feeds of user streams. …
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December 2013 reading
When I was first learning Java there was a big trend towards using design patterns. The extreme edge of that trend was critiqued wonderfully by Mark Jason Dominus in Why Design Patterns Aren …
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