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Re: Stop the madness! Ridiculous security scare tactics

Piers — Fri, 29 Jul 2016 04:37:37 -0000

They could have at least hit F11 to go full screen...

Re: I'd like to try Ghost

Piers — Fri, 08 Nov 2013 11:42:46 -0000

I'm pretty sure that as of the current version you can't have multi-author blogs. There are various places that have pre-made images of VMs with it already installed. Or it can just run from the command line (with node.js/sqlite).

Re: Preview: Chelsea Fringe Festival 2013

Piers — Mon, 13 May 2013 12:12:06 -0000

Just as an FYI, Chelsea 2013 is http://www.rhs.org.uk/shows... or just http://www.rhs.org.uk/chelsea

Re: Win A Two Night Hotel Stay In London With Accorhotels

Piers — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 06:36:34 -0000

Liked

Re: Testing @Anywhere

Piers — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 15:50:28 -0000

It works! Yay!

Re: The Journal of Joe The Peacock. Yay.: How I Feel About Kristen Stewart (That Hollow, Vapid, Soulless Pale Harpy From "Twilight"), Whose Only Role In Her Career Centered Around How Important It Is T...

Piers — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 10:52:40 -0000

I read an article talking about that this morning and I've been waiting for your comment all day. Thank you for making me happy.

Re: Scripting News: Ideas for an academic hackathon

Piers — Sat, 21 May 2011 15:08:23 -0000

Number 2 doesn't mention flipboard, but you do in number 6 so I was just curious.

Re: Scripting News: Ideas for an academic hackathon

Piers — Sat, 21 May 2011 15:00:35 -0000

With regards to number 2, are you talking like Flipboard, but for an html browser?

Re: Twitter sued for ‘breaking’ UK super injunction. Oh yes.

Piers — Fri, 20 May 2011 12:34:26 -0000

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I would have thought that

Re: How To: WordPress to Jekyll — PaulStamatiou.com

Piers — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 12:03:19 -0000

Have you seen mixpanel? Not a free analytics tool (although I think it is for lower end sites) but it's real time and might be worth looking at.

http://www.mixpanel.com

Re: Quentin’s Favorite Movies of 2010

Piers — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 09:48:49 -0000

Which Cyrus? There were two released in 2010, and they are VERY different.

Re: Not To Start Up Those Beatles/iTunes Rumor Again, But…

Piers — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 20:22:15 -0000

Not yet. "Spokesmen for Apple and EMI declined to comment."

Re: Give Us Our Data, Facebook

Piers — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 07:20:01 -0000

Suggesting Diaspora is all well and good, but it's still pretty unstable and it's not easy for the "layman" to set up. Until they make it workable it's never going to beat facebook

Re: Scripting News: I want a server rack in a (small) box

Piers — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 10:58:07 -0000

How about Shuttle? www.shuttle.com

Or if you're feeling brave, why not try building your own Mini-itx server

Or of course a Mac Mini like here

Re: Touch this innovative mobile-focused startup: Swype

Piers — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 05:26:15 -0000

Thanks Mike. I've already signed up, so I'm eagerly awaiting the email :)

Re: Touch this innovative mobile-focused startup: Swype

Piers — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 13:03:13 -0000

Any clue when it's going to be released for download? (bear in mind I don't have speakers at work so haven't watched the video yet, so apologies if it's mentioned there)

Re: Designing For Scalability of Management and Fault Tolerance

Piers — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 11:46:40 -0000

Very interesting post. Everyone else is talking about how they roll out Linux based deployment, so it's good to see how some major Windows stuff is being deployed.

Any chance of a best practice on how you deploy your code to the servers?

Re: The British were playing D&D on Television in the 80s.

Piers — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 09:51:02 -0000

I LOVED Knightmare.

There was a rumour that they were going to bring it back, but they never did

Re: Iron Man 2. (Scripting News)

Piers — Tue, 11 May 2010 08:00:27 -0000

Wait, where was Ellison? Which bit was he in? Admittedly I have no idea what he looks like, and the only reason I knew Elon Musk was in it was because he was mentioned by name.

Re: The Seesmic Squeeze: how a company responds to market changes in Twitter’s ecosystem

Piers — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 09:04:55 -0000

Good call, but from what I've read (haven't used it myself) it's not a very nice product to use from a feature/UX point of view, simply because they've started behind the others. Yes they may catch up, and then the developers can start getting worried, but until then, people like Loic who are already creating amazing products don't have to worry.

On the other hand it will be interesting to see what comes out of Chirp.

Re: The Seesmic Squeeze: how a company responds to market changes in Twitter’s ecosystem

Piers — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 08:48:34 -0000

At the moment, the only client they have is Tweetie. Now, the timing might be because of Chirp and they might be about to announce more, but unless they are going to create more clients for other platforms then it's not going to affect people. And even if they did create an Android app (for example) then I will it really take a toll on developers of things like Seesmic or Twidroid?

Twitter are already starting on the back foot by not having such feature-rich clients like the two I've mentioned above for other platforms.

Re: The Seesmic Squeeze: how a company responds to market changes in Twitter’s ecosystem

Piers — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 08:32:26 -0000

The thing is that twitter hasn't really moved into the market, they've just bought a pre-built solution. In my opinion it's more like them giving Tweetie the thumbs up and a seal of approval. Since I don't have an iPhone, it doesn't bother me. As long as people go down the same route as Seesmic (good call from Loic) and don't just concentrate on Twitter then they'll be fine.

Re: The Cloud is a Lie

Piers — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 11:01:56 -0000

Ok, I'll start off. Personally, I'm undecided. On one side, I like the idea of just being able to load an app onto the cloud and it just work (albeit with one or two tweaks). On the other hand, I really don't like the black box idea. I like to know what's running and to try my hand at tweaking things to get that last little bit of performance out.

I'm on Slicehost (owned by Rackspace nowadays) and I love it. I have daily and weekly backups schedules for an extra $5 a month and before I run anything new I always make sure I take a quick snapshot before I try something new... just in case. Restoring from backups takes about a minute because they just snapshot the system. Easy

Re: T-Mobile UK Launching HTC Desire March 26th

Piers — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 12:24:43 -0000

@Alex, I got my G1 on T-Mobile in December 08 and apparently I can upgrade 15th March. Admittedly this phone isn't out until 26th March, but you might be able to get it before April.

Re: T-Mobile UK Launching HTC Desire March 26th

Piers — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 12:24:43 -0000

@Alex, I got my G1 on T-Mobile in December 08 and apparently I can upgrade 15th March. Admittedly this phone isn't out until 26th March, but you might be able to get it before April.