Like the heading says, this is my dumping ground for general ramblings about nerdy bits and pieces I've found both at work and home that might be useful to someone else, or not...Category Archives for Stuff
Embedding Tweets
Twitter’s update comes with a handy new feature: embedding tweets, and even better, with shortcodes, but it does come with a fairly big caveat. From the docs: WordPress.com and WordPress VIP blogs have this functionality immediately, and Jetpack users will … Continue reading
ASync Shell Commands from Tornado
I’ve been using Tornado at work for a bunch of web interface stuff and found I needed to call shell commands that might block for a while. To avoid blocking Tornado itself, I looked around the web for a while trying … Continue reading
Managing Your Mail
The video below is admittedly old (Oct 2007) and has done the rounds before but I only saw it recently and it’s made a massive difference to the way I work. I find myself devoting less time to e-mail but … Continue reading
WordPress Child Themes
The site you’re looking at is styled with a child theme. WordPress introduced child themes in version 2.7 and they’re great. It means that you can cleanly modify an existing theme, and if the original writer publishes an update, your … Continue reading
The Next Solution Looking For A Problem…
Cloudera Hadoop Apparently the cool kids (Google) have moved on from MapReduce now, but hey, worth a look.
AD Integration on Linux
Having trawled through seemingly hundreds of howtos and tutorials, nothing seemed to work properly for me. I’m pretty sure I’ve got a very minimal and easy setup running now so I hope it’s of use to someone else. Click AD … Continue reading
Too Many Things To Try
Having a really short attention span and a wide range of interests makes for lots and lots of things to try. Now I just need to figure out what to do with some of these: processing and toxiclibs for visualisation … Continue reading
Thunderbird and Active Directory Autocomplete Lockups
This post just made so many people in my office happy. If you setup LDAP address lookups to an Active Directory server and experience hangs when autocompleting, just change the LDAP port from 389 to 3268. Thank you Vivek Kapoor: … Continue reading
The Hello World! Post
Figured it was about time I put something up here. Pretty much just a notepad of my nerdy musings…