External Services
Hacks
My current job involves more time with Mail, Excel & Word than with an editor, so I
try and do little (some very) hacks now and again to keep me in touch with tech and also just because
its fun.
- October 2006
- Google Zeitgeist -> Codesearch
A page that takes the topics that are listed in the Zeitgeist and searches
for them in codesearch
About,Try It.
- March 2006
- SWIM
Search What I Mean - Try and improve search queries by looking at key press
time.
About,
Try It .
- November 2005
- flickrslurp
Sync down a copy of my hi-res images from flickr as a backup.
Code.
- October 2005
- Intelligent Alarm Clock
An alarm clock that uses the rail systems online live departure boards to let you sleep as long as possible.
About,
Pictures.
- delicious2opml
Browsing around and find an interesting blog? Well just add it to del.icio.us with a
specific tag, then later generate a handy opml file to feed your RSS reader.
About,
Code.
- August 2005
- July 2005
- shiny - ICFPC2005
Not really a hack but anyway. Leon and I entered the ICFPC '05 and knocked
this code up over around 24 man hours while not eating Mexican food or
drinking champagne.
About,
Code.
You can also look at my CPAN modules. Recently I created
Device::USB::MissileLauncher, you can see a short video (16MB) of the test suite running here
Talks & Conferences
-
I'm organising with the help of Dean Wilson, the first London JavaScript Night. I'll also be giving an brief talk at it about why I feel JavaScript is so important right now.
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London Perl Workshop '05
Misc
- Just some random one off pages.