So, I got a Kindle for Xmas. It is awesome. Pretty much the first thing I did with it is start hunting for free web development ebooks. I was quite surprised to find that there wasn’t a free tag reference for HTML5. So I made one. It’s not in the…
Finally I’ve found a decent example of a JS physics simulation. This example by Jorn Zaefferer shows how to model a bouncing ball with vector arithmetic. I’ve tweaked this code to build a simulation of objects orbiting about a point. The only key difference is that the gravity for each…
I’ve recently finished an MSc in Intelligent Systems at De Montfort University (I passed with distinction – thanks for asking). One module of the course was devoted to using Data Mining techniques to explore data sets. Data Mining differs from the more common analysis of data. Commonly a data set…
Recently, in my day job, a request came in for a single page site. The requesters wanted to edit the content of the site without worrying about the style of the page. The solution we went with utilised our existing CMS system, but nevertheless I felt my developer itch needing…
You’ve gotta take your security seriously when using the web. Your actions on-line are being tracked and monitored constantly by various companies. This might not bother you, but it bothers me. Here’s a few plugins for Google Chrome that give me a little more piece of mind when I’m online…
Git is lovely. You know this. Here’s another bit of Gitty loveliness for you: Custom Config Parameters. The primary configuration file in Git is found in .git/config. In here are the configuration parameters for your repository. Git provides a tool to manage this file – git config. Handily this tool…
This article from NetTuts explains the basics of configuring the command prompt on Linux and Mac. It includes the great idea of displaying the current Git branch in the prompt. However, their method makes use of the vcprompt package, which has to be compiled and installed. A worthwhile exercise, but…
I’ve love GEdit, it’s a great text editor, and having added a few plugins, a great IDE too. GEdit has a few keyboard short cuts for working with the application. But there’s also a lot of great short cuts for working within the document. These, however, arn’t documented anywhere. GEdit…
If you want to write a plugin for Gedit, you’ve probably struggled to find any helpful tutorials and documentation. That’s because there isn’t much out there. On my hunt, I’ve found the following few links to be worthwhile. Python Plugin How To for gedit 3 My first gedit plugin Gedit…