Author Archives: Richard Rodger

Textile Trauma

Posted on November 23, 2005 by Richard Rodger

So this post is part of my continuing series on hacking Roller. I use the textile plugin when typing up most entries as it saves on the amount of typing you have to do. If I'm going to write up … Continue reading →




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Intelligent Design: Herring Farts!

Posted on November 23, 2005 by Richard Rodger

Oi! Kansas! You know who's having the biggest laugh at you? The Big Man himself. Hey didn't you guys try to redefine PI at one stage as well?




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Microsoft Makes Microcontent Magic

Posted on November 22, 2005 by Richard Rodger

Microsoft's new extension to RSS is a pretty big deal. Now normally I would roll my eyes at yet another attempt to smother an open standard, but this time it's actually not so bad. You know an idea is in … Continue reading →




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Friday Fun: Just Stop Pressing, OK?

Posted on November 18, 2005 by Richard Rodger

You're not going to like this.




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The Dawn of a New API

Posted on November 18, 2005 by Richard Rodger

Tom Evslin points out that APIs will make or break most of the new web applications. And he's dead right. In fact, API's are where all the really interesting stuff happens, because you get people doing things with your service … Continue reading →




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Business Ideas

Posted on November 17, 2005 by Richard Rodger

Business ideas are worthless. Trouble is, when you get one, you can never believe otherwise. They usually strike around bedtime, and before you know it, you've designed a full-scale enterprise architecture to support the concept by 1AM, prepared an initial … Continue reading →




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Software Products Are Not Software Projects

Posted on November 16, 2005 by Richard Rodger

So you want to start your own software company? You've got a great product idea and it's a simple case of programming to get the first version together. Then you have to put up a website, and a payment system. … Continue reading →




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Sudoku, Part Four

Posted on November 15, 2005 by Richard Rodger

I've been writing about a Perl sudoku solver. Sudoku is a great example of a problem worthy of study. It looks easy from the outside, but when you have a go at solving it, it gets tricky very quickly. The … Continue reading →




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Analysing Google

Posted on November 14, 2005 by Richard Rodger

Sure I suppose I'd better give this Google Analytics thing a go. If only for the fancy graphics. I already use awstats and that's OK as far as it goes. The Google stats system is pretty flash, but surprisingly slow. … Continue reading →




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Friday Fun: Yoda, Yo, You Da Man!

Posted on November 11, 2005 by Richard Rodger

Thanks to Adam Stiles for this one. I fell off my chair the first time. Yoda, telling it like it is.




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