Blogs
2010
Perl, Compiled Regex's and FastCGI
·2 mins
Recently I have been having intermittent problems with various Foswiki plugins when running under FastCGI.
NASA publishes evidence on climate change. Will it convince the sceptics?
·2 mins
NASA recently published a page entitled Climate Change: Evidence1 that provides what it calls compelling evidence on the existence of climate change and the fact it is “very likely human-induced”.
Running the Royal Parks Half Marathon
Last Sunday I ran the Royal Parks Half Marathon.
Getting the date from the ISO week number in Perl
·2 mins
The code below allows you to get the date at the start of the week given the ISO Week Number and optionally the year (defaulting to this year), and requires the DateTime module.
Carmelite Church and the Chapel of Bones, Faro, Portugal
I recently visited the Carmelite Church (Igreja do Carmo) in Faro whilst on holiday in the Algarve.
jQuery Placeholder Plugin Released
·1 min
The jQuery Placeholder Plugin provides support for the placeholder HTML5 attribute in browsers that do not support it.
When do you expect the UK tax payer to be repaid by Northern Rock, RBS and Lloyds?
This question was put to Chris Skinner on BBC News earlier.
2009
Using a Quarter Interval with the Simile Timeline
·1 min
The Simile Timeline allows you to make beautiful, interactive timelines for web pages using only JavaScript.
Google Chrome is Coming of Age on Linux
Its taken a while, but the Linux version of Google’s Chrome is really starting to catch up with its Windows counterpart, both in terms of features and stability.