News networks giving a greater voice to viewers because the social web is so popular are like a chef on the Titanic who, seeing the looming iceberg and fleeing customers, figures ice is the future and starts making snow cones. via XKCD.
Posts Categorized: Professional
If We Had A Web Of Data I Would Build …
Georgi Kobilarov has a post up asking what would you build with a function web of data and I have a few ideas. These all need fleshing out (and probably spell-checking ;), but if I didn’t post them now I might never get round to it! Shopping I think there are a few ways you… Read more »
BBC Fisheye Greasemonkey Script
Greasemonkey script to reformat “Author” select elements on the BBC’s Fisheye repository browser, which are ridiculously long (because they contain a considerable chunk of certificate data) which messes with the whole page layout. Shrinking the selects to a more reasonable width fixes this and makes the site more usable. http://otaqui.com/code/bbc-fisheye/bbc-fisheye.user.js // ==UserScript== // @name BBC… Read more »
Bash Script for Serving Multiple Trac Projects and Sharing Authentication
I use Trac for personal projects, and I share some of these out with people as required. I use tracd (TracStandalone) for this, rather than a full-blown apache setup, since it serves my needs quite nicely and is a lot easier to turn on and off as required without tweaking apache config and rebooting the… Read more »
Custom User Agent with Cucumber Tests and Webrat in Mechanize Mode
It’s pretty straightforward to set a custom user agent with mechanize if you’re using it directly, KickAssLabs has a good example. If you’re using Mechanize through Webrat though, things are a little different. The nice thing though, is that you can do this in a step definition – allowing features to be based on different… Read more »