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 …

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. …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

tl;dr The All Your Base database conference in Oxford was great. I went to it. I recently went along to the fantastic All Your Base database conference which happened in Oxford on 23 November 2012. If you don't get the reference, then you ahould read up on the all your base are belong to us me …

This is a pretty minimal tip. The other day I was looking for a way to shorten URLs from the commandline. Now the bit.ly API expects you to authenticate before doing any shortening (I’ve not pulled apart the web ui to see if its possible without). The is.gd URL shortener has no such restric …