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2023 January

  • Jan 25 - Configuring Dhall with Emacs

2022 March

  • Mar 01 - Baby's First GEM Program

2022 February

  • Feb 20 - Getting started with Pure-C on the Atari ST

2021 December

  • Dec 07 - Advent of Code 2021 - Puzzle 7
  • Dec 06 - Advent of Code 2021 - Puzzle 6
  • Dec 05 - Advent of Code 2021 - Puzzle 5
  • Dec 04 - Advent of Code 2021 - Puzzle 4
  • Dec 03 - Advent of Code 2021 - Puzzle 3
  • Dec 02 - Advent of Code 2021 - Puzzle 2
  • Dec 01 - Advent of Code 2021 - Puzzle 1

2021 November

  • Nov 30 - Advent of Code 2021

2020 August

  • Aug 12 - Javascript Object Compaction

2020 July

  • Jul 26 - Porting blog to cryogen
  • Jul 25 - "Brief update"

2016 November

  • Nov 02 - "Refactoring Legacy Code - Gilded Rose Kata"

2016 August

  • Aug 25 - "Refactoring Hard to Test Code"
  • Aug 20 - "Software Apprenticeships"
  • Aug 04 - "Interface Segregation"

2016 July

  • Jul 25 - "Wrapping 3rd Party Code"
  • Jul 20 - "Function Arguments"
  • Jul 05 - "A small functional refactoring of Javascript"

2016 June

  • Jun 29 - "Meteor, Heroku, and bcrypt"
  • Jun 27 - "Back to Basics - Editors"
  • Jun 23 - "Reading not Reading"

2016 May

  • May 17 - "Brief update"

2014 September

  • Sep 27 - "Why I've taken a full time job"

2014 March

  • Mar 02 - "1000km - February"

2014 January

  • Jan 31 - "1000km - January"
  • Jan 23 - "Meteor"
  • Jan 20 - "2014"

2013 March

  • Mar 22 - "Medical Regulation and Apps"

2013 February

  • Feb 23 - "DRYing out Objective-C - Identification"

2012 October

  • Oct 25 - "The Value of Contracting"

2012 July

  • Jul 14 - "99 Problems (but Haskell ain't one)"
  • Jul 06 - "Updating a UITableView without calling reloadData"

2012 June

  • Jun 04 - "Core Data Migrations and Large Data Sets"

2012 May

  • May 19 - "UISearchBar's UITextField"

2012 April

  • Apr 30 - "iBooks Crashing?"
  • Apr 10 - "Housekeeping"
  • Apr 05 - "Unit Test Code Coverage with Xcode 4.3.2"

2012 January

  • Jan 27 - "Continuous Integration and iOS"
  • Jan 19 - "On hold...temporarily"

2011 December

  • Dec 29 - "User Experience Books"
  • Dec 22 - "Sandboxing"

2011 November

  • Nov 27 - "I'm on a list"
  • Nov 07 - "CASE and Requirements Management"

2011 October

  • Oct 28 - "6 < 36"
  • Oct 27 - "Start With the End in Mind"
  • Oct 24 - "Work Plans"
  • Oct 22 - "Big Changes"

2010 July

  • Jul 23 - 'iPhone & iPad (iOS) Localizations and Regions '

2010 March

  • Mar 04 - Moving Van

2010 February

  • Feb 08 - Ad from Digg

2010 January

  • Jan 07 - 'Calculate age in objective-c '

2009 September

  • Sep 20 - iPhone Camera Overlays + iphonearkit
  • Sep 20 - Augmented Reality - Hello World
  • Sep 17 - No, I don't agree
  • Sep 11 - 'Kit Quiz: UK'

2009 August

  • Aug 15 - Passenger (Ruby on Rails) + PHP on OSX
  • Aug 07 - '123456789'
  • Aug 04 - Undefined method rewind and rails 2.3.3

2009 July

  • Jul 31 - USSD Codes on iPhone
  • Jul 30 - Yahoo and Microsoft - Micro-hoo, or Bingy!
  • Jul 29 - iTunes Connect now has keywords

2009 May

  • May 11 - My first iPhone app approved - finally

2009 March

  • Mar 20 - Feedzirra
  • Mar 02 - ESTA and Confusion

2009 February

  • Feb 26 - Dealing with SemanticHacker in Ruby
  • Feb 20 - Installing f2c on a mac
  • Feb 01 - cocos2d-iphone blocking touch events

2009 January

  • Jan 31 - error on line 1987
  • Jan 04 - User Preferences on iPhone
  • Jan 02 - 'Last Days: Woolworths'

2008 December

  • Dec 27 - Zazzle discount vouchers / codes
  • Dec 13 - Memory Management in Objective-C
  • Dec 10 - Car tries to climb fence in Reading

2008 November

  • Nov 09 - Dodgy Supermarkets
  • Nov 06 - What I like about working at my companys offices
  • Nov 04 - LinkedIn iPhone Application

2008 October

  • Oct 26 - Firefox 3.0.3 and 500 Internal Errors with Javascript
  • Oct 17 - Great job title
  • Oct 11 - Underacheiving
  • Oct 10 - Is it just a kiwi thing?

2008 September

  • Sep 18 - NZ don't get no respect!
  • Sep 02 - People as assets
  • Sep 01 - on getting a site into google. Abridged.

2008 August

  • Aug 30 - Amazons MP3 offer
  • Aug 22 - iPhone 2.0.2 Software Update
  • Aug 20 - Dumb Things Company Websites Dont, But Should Do
  • Aug 15 - Radiant CMS Tutorial - Custom Javascript in Admin Pages
  • Aug 05 - Google's AJAX Libraries API

2008 July

  • Jul 30 - There is a better way (and it's about time I started showing people)
  • Jul 28 - invisibleSHIELD discount codes
  • Jul 24 - Lost followers on Twitter
  • Jul 22 - Wordpress for iphone
  • Jul 22 - Not all software is created equal

2008 June

  • Jun 14 - Redesigned Glimmer Design
  • Jun 14 - Wordpress migration - again

2008 May

  • May 31 - Mnemonic Password Generator - a la Ruby

2008 March

  • Mar 18 - Podcasts
  • Mar 06 - Flash!
  • Mar 03 - No work for 1 week!

2008 February

  • Feb 17 - MacBook Air - UK Keyboard
  • Feb 08 - Coding vs Configuration - The vendors are missing the point, and the customers
  • Feb 08 - Open Source is a Meritocracy
  • Feb 04 - Ouch! Google’s response to the Microsoft bid for Yahoo.

2008 January

  • Jan 30 - Requirements of Charles Schwab
  • Jan 30 - Time for the big upgrade
  • Jan 30 - Intervention multiplies like lies
  • Jan 23 - Automator - Automation of sending email with attachments
  • Jan 18 - My Credit Card says "Owie"!
  • Jan 18 - 2 steps to happy tax in the UK

2007 October

  • Oct 22 - Confusing Marketing Messages
  • Oct 14 - Stupid word

2007 June

  • Jun 14 - Amsterdam

2007 May

  • May 25 - Poor Analytics
  • May 25 - Off to Bruges
  • May 25 - New addition to the garden

2007 March

  • Mar 13 - Getting Things Done

2007 February

  • Feb 06 - Europe in 2007
  • Feb 06 - Betavine
  • Feb 06 - scRUBYt - Hot, New Ruby Web-Scraping Toolkit Released

2007 January

  • Jan 29 - Political Allegiance
  • Jan 24 - mojax
  • Jan 12 - Lonely, lonely classes
  • Jan 10 - Taking the Vietnam out of Iraq
  • Jan 09 - The Apple iPhone - Engadget
  • Jan 09 - iTV becomes Apple TV - Engadget
  • Jan 08 - BBC NEWS | Entertainment | REM gain rock Hall of Fame place
  • Jan 08 - Sick
  • Jan 07 - VerseLogic » Wordpress OpenID Plugin
  • Jan 06 - Goodbye Blogger, Hello WordPress!
  • Jan 06 - Sneaky old TextDrive
  • Jan 06 - Wall Calendar

2006 December

  • Dec 23 - 'Value Migration: How to Think Several Moves Ahead of the Competition'

2006 November

  • Nov 15 - A story about "Saturday Morning Cartoons' Greatest Hits"
  • Nov 11 - A story about "Kin-dza-dza"

2006 October

  • Oct 27 - I got back in touch...
  • Oct 23 - Off to Paris...
  • Oct 22 - More trips to add!
  • Oct 19 - A story about "Pink Floyd - The Wall"

2006 September

  • Sep 24 - Just came back from...
  • Sep 24 - I just got back...
  • Sep 18 - A story about "Out of Nothing"
  • Sep 02 - Boring and predictable

2006 August

  • Aug 31 - I Spent What?!
  • Aug 26 - A story about "Solaris"
  • Aug 01 - News about Caversham

2006 July

  • Jul 23 - A story about "Under the Table and Dreaming"
  • Jul 18 - 1 week down
  • Jul 18 - Grrrrr.
  • Jul 11 - A story about "American Psycho"
  • Jul 11 - 4K > 61A
  • Jul 11 - QF190
  • Jul 11 - Stickers, medals or cards?
  • Jul 11 - I've done it
  • Jul 11 - BA10
  • Jul 07 - Flights are...
  • Jul 06 - Well...
  • Jul 03 - Rosendahl Alarm Clock

2006 June

  • Jun 25 - A story about "Hilary & Jackie"
  • Jun 17 - Why I recommend "Ghost Dog - The Way of the Samurai"
  • Jun 09 - Glimmer Design
  • Jun 09 - Grrrr.
  • Jun 07 - All arrived

2006 May

  • May 31 - I'm on the verge...
  • May 23 - I've decided...
  • May 22 - this hasn't
  • May 11 - I'm hoping this...
  • May 10 - Why I recommend "Confessions on a Dance Floor"
  • May 08 - Arg!
  • May 02 - Relocation
  • May 02 - GTD!

2006 April

  • Apr 23 - Got rid of...
  • Apr 21 - Got me a job...
  • Apr 18 - OMG
  • Apr 11 - Sorted
  • Apr 10 - Got...
  • Apr 10 - I am doing this...
  • Apr 10 - Easy Peasy - but I'll still complain
  • Apr 10 - I purchased a NAS...
  • Apr 05 - 'Why I recommend "Freakonomics : A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side
  • Apr 05 - Hero

2006 March

  • Mar 30 - Battle Royale
  • Mar 29 - A little disappointed...
  • Mar 29 - Not new but....
  • Mar 22 - Why I recommend "V for Vendetta"
  • Mar 13 - Couple of movies on the weekend
  • Mar 13 - Adaptation
  • Mar 07 - dntel day
  • Mar 07 - It's OK, but...
  • Mar 07 - Good little piece of (relatively) experimental electronica
  • Mar 07 - Great track
  • Mar 04 - A story about "Kung Fu Hustle"
  • Mar 03 - Got me some new D&G's
  • Mar 03 - Thursday

2006 February

  • Feb 26 - Auckland Museum
  • Feb 19 - A review of "Morningwood"
  • Feb 18 - At Canterbury University
  • Feb 18 - Calexico
  • Feb 07 - Interview went
  • Feb 05 - A bit weak
  • Feb 04 - Interview...

2006 January

  • Jan 31 - Background sorted
  • Jan 30 - Lord of the Flies - Peter Brook (1963)
  • Jan 22 - BDO Auckland - Woohoo!
  • Jan 17 - BDO this friday!
  • Jan 16 - Got me some new shoes
  • Jan 15 - Coffee & Cigarettes - Jim Jarmusch
  • Jan 14 - Shoe Science is the biz
  • Jan 14 - Scope, creep. Part 2.
  • Jan 13 - ipod battery replacement
  • Jan 12 - Jenna's list?
  • Jan 12 - w00t.
  • Jan 12 - Donnie Darko - Directors Cut
  • Jan 12 - Got my replacement battery
  • Jan 10 - wtf is racc?
  • Jan 09 - Cameraphone repaired, armed and ready
  • Jan 09 - Scope, creep.
  • Jan 08 - Product Development

2005 December

  • Dec 29 - select with value - rubyonrails
  • Dec 28 - Drinking and Hospital
  • Dec 26 - Fire Service
  • Dec 26 - BBQ at Andy and Jeanettes
  • Dec 25 - Xmas Day
  • Dec 24 - Xmas Eve
  • Dec 19 - Go PayPal!
  • Dec 17 - Money, Ruby on Rails and AUD
  • Dec 12 - Hey. Been out at pub quiz this evening. Tomas an...
  • Dec 10 - Every day's a Saturday
  • Dec 06 - I've started a little collection of lifestyle, fas...
  • Dec 05 - Ahhh, being the sheik geek that I am, I love Tokyo...
  • Dec 05 - There is a windows equivalent of Dashboard. It's ...
  • Dec 05 - Odd, I've never noticed this before. Now that I h...

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