Just A Few Updates

It’s been almost a month since my last post and a lot has happened since then so I thought I’d bring any readers of my blog up to date.

If you are a frequent visitor to the website you may have noticed the new layout (implemented about 20 days ago now). The layout is much simplified over the old layout. It makes use of a single column layout with items from the old sidebar in the top corners. For now the advertising and Last.fm widgets have been removed whilst I decide if they should make an appearance in the new …

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30 May 2008 @ 23:03

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Ruby on Rails, Tutorial

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Caching Your Photographs

If you have at some point followed my now fairly ancient rFlickr tutorial you may have noticed that your photo page loads quite slowly, and that my photo page loads fairly quickly. To get my page to load as quickly as it does required a small custom caching method and a willingness on my part to sacrifice some bandwidth. Here’s how I did it.

This tutorial assumes that you have already worked through the previously mentioned rFlickr tutorial and have something s…

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17 May 2008 @ 12:35

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Website

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Oops

Due to a massive oversight on my part at the point I implemented a user groups system on the website it would appear, for standard users at least, that the comments system has not been functioning correctly. The problem has now been solved and the comments system should be working correctly. Apologies to anyone that have ever tried to post a comment on the website for it not to work.

Check back soon.

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Posted
03 May 2008 @ 13:06

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Website, Downloads, Software, Ruby on Rails, Personal

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About Time Too

It’s been well over a month since I managed to write a post now so I thought it was about time I started the cogs whirring again, especially as all my assignments are now finished and handed in.

Even though there has been a lack of posts in the recent month there hasn’t been a lack of feverish activity. First on the books was the release of Set Icon 0.2, this release just bought basic bug fixes and a much improved authentication system. This was followed in recent weeks by the release of Set Icon 0.3, in this rele…

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25 Mar 2008 @ 22:34

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Downloads, Software, Mac

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Set Icon, The Initial Release

After literally tens of emails from people having problems applying the ‘My Book Icons’ to their external hard drives I came to the decision that I needed to write some software to make the whole process a little easier. The result of this decision and a couple of (short) days work is Set Icon.

You may remember from my previous tutorial that setting a custom hard drive icon (correctly) required some Terminal wizardry and some extra command line tools. Set Icon…

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