Category Archives: coding

And there went the year!

Posted on December 18, 2011 by jebw

Well, 2 posts in a year – I guess that shows how busy my years been. I’m now starting to count down for a xmas break, the snow’s arrived finally and I got out for some climbing on Helvellyn today, … Continue reading →

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The web without a webserver

Posted on August 10, 2010 by jebw

Desktop software seems to be becoming more and more of a niche requirement when it comes to bespoke software. In comparison to web based software it tends to be slower to develop, and more time consuming to roll out updates, … Continue reading →

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Weird

Posted on May 27, 2009 by jebw

I’m busy writing a Rails plugin, following good Test Driven Development practices, ie Writing tests, checking they fail, then writing code to make them pass. This time though the tests passed straight off, without me writing the functionality – hmm, … Continue reading →

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Hacking in Lua

Posted on May 19, 2009 by jebw

I use an alternative window manager called Awesome – it works a bit differently to a normal Gnome desktop. One feature I miss is the run command in Gnome which takes whatever you throw at it and tries to act … Continue reading →

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I'm Back

Posted on May 19, 2009 by jebw

Well, I’m finally back in Kendal enjoying the rain The winter went well, though not quite as planned. I got lots of climbing done and seemed to improve whilst out in spain. Since getting back I’ve been bouncing around between … Continue reading →

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Sage Line 50 and Rails

Posted on September 16, 2008 by jebw

I’ve done a fair amount of integration work between Sage Line 50 and various websites, e-commerce and others, and I’m writing a plugin for Rails to make this process a bit easier. Integration is achieved with a great product from … Continue reading →

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Scribes TextMate-style plugin

Posted on June 2, 2008 by jebw

I use TextMate all day in work and its about the only reason I’d consider buying a Mac, unfortunately its not a good enough reason for the price premium so I’m trying to find good work-a-likes on Linux. A friend … Continue reading →

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Bzr 1.1 on N800

Posted on January 18, 2008 by jebw

UPDATE: It now works! I’m a big fan of Bazaar and use it for a lot of my code, I’d previously managed to massage it onto my N800 using the ubuntu .debs, –force and some symlinks. After upgrading to OS2008 … Continue reading →

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Sync program for N800

Posted on January 2, 2008 by jebw

I’ve got one of these funky N800 tablets which is very cool but one of the things it seems to lack is good file transfer support – if the file manager can access smb shares I’ve not found out how … Continue reading →

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How to implement Annotate in a Bazaar client

Posted on December 6, 2007 by jebw

UPDATE: I seem to have done a far better job of explaining this here http://bazaar-vcs.org/Integrating_with_Bazaar This is a brief explanation of how to implement Annotate support if software writing against the bzrlib library. Annotate support is useful because its a … Continue reading →

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