Nikon PC-E Nikkor 24mm f/3.5D ED Review | PhotographyBLOG A very good explanation as to how to use a tilt-shift lens alongside a review of Nikon's PC-E 24mm. (tags: tiltshift nikon review)
Habilis Adds Files to Dropbox via Email Would like to see this offered by dropbox itself, but could make an awesome service even more awesome (tags: dropbox productivity email) Welcome to our new story pages – msnbc.com (tags: redesign html css web webdesign) OANDA – Forex Trading and Exchange Rates…
Updated to reflect some feedback and one example of using commons-exec as an alternative to the plain old Runtime.exec Second Update to reflect use of shell-out – thanks Scott! Basic Making use of clojure.contrib.duck-streams: (ns utils (:use clojure.contrib.duck-streams)) (defn execute [command] (let [process (.exec (Runtime/getRuntime) command)] (if (= 0 (.waitFor…
One of the problems quickly encountered when any new team adopts a Continuous Build is that builds become slow. Enforcing a Build Time Limit can help, but ultimately if all of your Continuous Build runs as one big monolithic block, there are limits to what you can do to decrease…
Recently, both Paul Julius and Chris Read pointed out that I was perhaps the first person to document the concept of build pipelines, at least in terms of how it relates to continuous integration and the like. As it turns out, the original posts on the subject are from further…
I’ve been working on a tool called Hairball to track setter and constructor injection, and use of singletons in Java code. Right now, the tool is capable of creating dot diagrams (for use with GraphViz) and graphml diagrams (for display in yEd). My initial motivation for hairball was as a…
Update 1: OK, sorry for the change – but I’ve had to reschedule to Thursday 15th of March. Venue still tbc Update 2: The venue is now confirmed as the Old Bank Of England OK – I thought getting filmed by someone from Microsoft last year was as surreal an…
I’ll be presenting a session entitled “Refactoring Databases for fun and profit” with a colleague at this year’s “XP Day 2006”:http://www.xpday.org/. XP Day (not just XP, not just one day…) is run by the long-established (and Olde Bank of England regulars) the “Extreme Tuesday Club”:http://www.xpdeveloper.com/. I attended last year and…
This month’s meeting will be on Monday the 2nd of October – I’m hoping to try and make the first Monday of each month the regular time for these little get togethers. As usual, it’s informal, no real agenda, however I’ll probably be talking about Database refactorings and Microformats. After…
Colleague “Jason Huggins”:http://www.jrandolph.com/blog/ (“Selenium”:http://www.openqa.org/selenium/ dev) is in town as he’s presenting at the “Google Automated Testing Conference”:http://services.google.com/events/londontesters , so I felt a meet up was in order. It’ll also serve as a nice warm-up for “d.construct”:http://2006.dconstruct.org/ later in the week – I’ve managed to snag a ticket so I’ll be…
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