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Airport CLI utility for Mac OS X

Andy Jeffries — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 11:10:18 +0000

A very useful little CLI tool to determine the current network. Now I'm using my MacBook in two places, it's very handy to know which WiFi network I'm connected to in my scripts/cron jobs.

Funniest knockout ever!!!

Andy Jeffries — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 08:49:28 +0000

I won't spoil it, but I'd hate to be the referee in this fight!!!

Monty's 21st Century Business Model

Andy Jeffries — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 13:36:39 +0000

It's a very interesting read (and would be an amazing company to work for), but I'm not sure how well it will work out. I wish him all the best though and will definitely be following his progress.

25 Excellent Tips for jQuery

Andy Jeffries — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 08:41:39 +0000

Jon Hobbs-Smith's brilliant article containing 25 real-life tips on jQuery. The article assumes you know the basics of jQuery, but then really does add value for the backend developer who isn't a javascript/jQuery pro.

Rails 2.2: Information

Andy Jeffries — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 09:02:49 +0000

Ruby Inside has a very nice summary of interesting links for the just-released Rails 2.2. I don't feel like I'm quite ready to be using Edge Rails so at least Rails 2.2 contains some of the goodness that I've been reading about in various blogs.

Redirecting your RSS to Feedburner without changing any code

Andy Jeffries — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:48:55 +0000

After deciding to give Feedburner a try to track statistics, I found this interesting blog post on doing it without actually changing your site code. We'll see how it works, but I know they're using a similar trick at the place I'm currently contracting

Korean soldiers train for confrontation, black-belt style (NBC)

Andy Jeffries — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 09:00:20 +0000

An introduction piece to Taekwondo in the run-up to the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games; still taught to Korea's elite military units, school children and martial art students around the world.

Collective Code Ownership == No Code Ownership?

Andy Jeffries — Wed, 14 May 2008 11:03:01 +0000

David Linsen wrote an interesting blog post about the Scrum process and code being abandoned as no specific person has ownership. I've commented a couple of times on the blog post but will probably expand more in to a full blog post here in a week or so.

101 Atheist Quotes

Andy Jeffries — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:12:52 +0000

If you're an atheist, this is a great collection of quotes as to why religion is a load of ...

iPhone: 1.0.3->1.1.4->Aaarrggh!->1.1.3->Yay :-)

Andy Jeffries — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 12:02:26 +0000

After deciding to upgrade my iPhone to 1.1.4 (as iNdependence Beta 5 apparently makes it easy to re-unlock it), I've had a hairy time with my phone not working. After finding this guide (and iJailbreak) it's back working and running 1.1.3.

Labrador Forums

Andy Jeffries — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 20:28:59 +0000

The place to go for lots of useful advice and help on Labradors, including a dedicated section on "Puppy Stuff".

Building a .com in 24 hours

Andy Jeffries — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 09:11:04 +0000

Dominiek spent 24 hours over the Christmas break building a new .com site to convert an RSS feed in to a web-embedable widget. A nice run through of what he spent the time on and how.

Tiger Team

Andy Jeffries — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 14:53:14 +0000

A new show on TruTV (formerly CourtTV) about security intrusion. The guys are paid to try to break in to companies property/network by the owners. Very interesting how supposedly secure companies are so wide open. If you want to read more on the topic,

Top 10 tricks to p*** off your webmaster

Andy Jeffries — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 08:08:53 +0000

I got sent this by email so went and found the original blog post. Very funny! Or is it sad that I've had most of these points at some point during my web development career?

Jeff Croft's Homepage

Andy Jeffries — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 22:13:03 +0000

As the design for this site is 'heavily inspired' by Jeff's site (mine is coded from scratch, is much more basic and is written in symfony) it's only fair to give a link back to his site.