Projects
19 Projects articles in total, showing 11 to 19
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Snipp.IO: A pastebin made out of Haskell, Yesod and mongodb
I’ve recently been learning about the Haskell-based Yesod web framework. This is about my experience of building a simple pastebin with Yesod, mongodb and Haskell, which took a couple of evening sessions and a Saturday afternoon.The first question to answer is why choos …
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East Oxford Community Centre website
I have been a voluntary trustee for the East Oxford Community Centre for the last couple of years. I recently felt that I had enough time to put together a new website for them. It wasn’t a hugely big project; I just boshed something together on wordpress.com in an evening. But I think that …
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Lessons from Community Webhosting in Oxford: ox4.org
Back in 2008 me and my pal Penguin decided that it would be fun to have a webserver to play with. Nowadays, it doesn't cost much to have a virtual server with awesome hosts like Bytemark. But it still costs. Plus we wanted to provide a bit of a community activist resou …
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Collaborative pornography and making Windows 7 rsync
This should be an unusual blog. I’m attempting to combine a belated shoutout for nor’s collaborative porn project, OpenSauce with a howto guide to making rsync work on windows. Lets see how it that works out. Nor's radicalx project has previously inv …
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Seven Languages In Seven Weeks
There is an idea, popularized in the Pragmatic Programmer book that its good to learn a new programming language every year. Seven Languages In Seven Weeks takes the concept one stage further, although clearly only for certain values of learning. One is never going to be proficient at any lan …
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My Drupal Life Aggregator
I have a slightly unhealthy obsession with RSS. Its just simple enough that you can make something in an evening. But just complex enough that the thing could potentially be a bit interesting. So, I set out to learn a bit more about Drupal, especially about theming it. I wan …
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Oxford Sexual Abuse and Rape Crisis Centre Website
OSARCC are a fantastic collective of women committed to supporting survivors of sexual abuse, rape, domestic abuse, and harassment. I helped them to get their website transitioned away from flat html to a simple CMS, Sky Blue Canvas. Their main requirement was that whatever system they ende …
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Video: FeedMash — A Perl/Catalyst RSS Masher—Upper and Twitter&mdash
Update 2011-01-31: Well, life got in the way of getting this out in January, let’s see if it will come out in Feb! I’m currently coding a project using the Catalyst Framework. The project is called feedmash and is partly inspired by paper.li along with the UK Indymedia agg …
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ALF: Apache log filter
ALF is a filter for people using Apache logging to plain text logs, who still want the flexibility of being able to search their logs like a database. It relies heavily on Jeff Zucker's DBD::AnyData to do the clever stuff, and overlays that with a simple Gtk2 interface.You can run SQL queries a …
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