Twitter Updates for 2008-09-19

Posted on September 19, 2008 by Rob

Twitter Updates for 2008-09-17

Posted on September 17, 2008 by Rob

looking forward to @danja ‘s arrival and stay in Brum #
@mattb thanks for the link – “I am not stupid, some things are just hard” in reply to mattb #
now has a friendfeed at http://friendfeed.com/mmmmmrob #
13,227 photos on flickr now just have to tag, rotate and set them all #

Posted on September 16, 2008 by Rob

@LuLubonbon what sort of job are you looking for? in reply to LuLubonbon #
is watching Brewster: http://tinyurl.com/57quk9 #
@tommyh you don’t have to follow the links to make sure it’s spam… in reply to tommyh #
Trying to work out why JNI can’t find my libraries #
is staring, stunned, at @mauvedeity #
wonders if @andypowe11 means Dewey (http://www.oclc.org/dewey/) or Dewey (http://www.unshelved.com/primer.aspx) #

Posted on September 15, 2008 by Rob

back to work after the weekend after 3 days away on school trip with J8. 8 year olds are cool, but not too cool to talk to you :-> #
ugh, firefox just lost keyboard input. haven’t seen that bug for a while. #
right, email caught up, time for another cuppa #
Running 3 OSs simultaneously on MacBook Pro with 4Gb, runs fine – Windows XP, Ubuntu and OSX (of course) – nice separation of dev and office #

Posted on September 10, 2008 by Rob

Posted on September 9, 2008 by Rob

ugh, lots of rain. Worked out yesterday that my generic cacheing strategy wasn’t as generic as I first thought #

Posted on September 5, 2008 by Rob

@mauvedeity better than falling for the expert-sexchange bait and switch… in reply to mauvedeity #

Posted on September 4, 2008 by Rob

re-tweeing @dfflanders ROFLMAO: http://tinyurl.com/6zf82d #
@dmje you just need to install the flash plugin that youtube links to. in reply to dmje #
ugh, subversion tagging and branching. Having to unpick a mistake for Andrew and Nad – very similar to a mistake I made last week. #

Posted on September 3, 2008 by Rob

back from lunch with David Peterson and new team member Mark, burger and a pint, not too bad. #
caching framework for rdf that keeps track of dependencies and invalidates the cache when you make changes – very pleased with today’s work. #
@iand scalded_mouths– in reply to iand #
well, Chrome Beta, running in XP under Vmware on a mac is noticeably faster than FF3 running natively. /me likes v.much #
@infod1va photo is set to private in reply to infod1va #
@iand or maybe that my broadband at home is faster than the pipe at the office? in reply to iand #
@edsu v8 is the JavaScript compiler, yes – fast by the looks of it, gmail very responsive for me in reply to edsu #
right, going to bed now, to read ‘The Book Thief’ #
in the office, about to get a cup of tea, then wrap cacheing functions in unit tests #
@ianibbo it’s written in a test-first style, just without the tests first… in reply to ianibbo #
@PaulMiller and I’m fed up of LiveWriter because it just has to adorn your markup with it’s name, let me know what you find in reply to PaulMiller #
@blisspix your skepticism may prove to be well placed, but you should try it – it’s blisteringly fast in reply to blisspix #

Posted on September 2, 2008 by Rob

have designed caching strategy to try out, now just have to code it – using memcached. #
I _am not_ currently saving Mr Rogers. http://savemisterrogers.com/ #
good day today, good design chats about caching, catching up with what’s been done and just nattering #
Dragon’s Den is as crap as usual so far tonight. Poor ideas with no IP protection, over-valued businesses, dull, dull, dull #
@MrJ1971 not dull tv, just dull people and dull ideas in reply to MrJ1971 #
@kiyanwang interesting perspective on Google Browser from Luis Villa: http://tinyurl.com/5jlsky in reply to kiyanwang #
why did Google choose ‘Chrome’ when that’s already the name of a firefox subsystem? http://tinyurl.com/2bjge7 #
Google name is bizarre given this: http://developer.mozilla.org/En/Chrome #
awesome communication: http://tinyurl.com/5frq6f #