Posted in Hacking on Jun 21st, 2011
Yesterday I noticed the kerfuffle about the UK’s Tower Bridge Twitter account. It’s a bot that tweets when the Tower Bridge in London opens and closes. In the author’s announcement of the bot he said, The idea of overhearing machines talking about what they’re doing is, to my mind, quite delightful. and I tend to [...]
Posted in Hacking on May 4th, 2010
In the PlanningAlerts project, we recently added a default page title for those pages we forget to add specific titles to. I added the initial code and Matthew did it properly cleaned it up, here’s the diff: 12345678910111213141516diff –git a/app/views/layouts/application.haml b/app/views/layouts/application.haml index 27d81d9..6b42b26 100644 — a/app/views/layouts/application.haml +++ b/app/views/layouts/application.haml @@ -2,10 +2,7 @@ %html(xml:lang="en" lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml") [...]
Posted in OpenAustralia on Apr 9th, 2010
In preparation for the recent OpenAustralia Hackfest – apps4nsw Edition, Matthew asked me to add the Ruby on Rails port of PlanningAlerts to DevLive so that developers could poke around with what was an experimental codebase (it’s now deployed – woohoo!). Unfortunately I wasn’t able to attend the hackfest as I was busy jumping out [...]
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