Tom Smith
Tom Smith is now helping improve collaboration at the University of York.
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Tag Archives: Development
The D list
I don’t know why, but in a world of change it warms my cockles to know that within four hours of the new year slashdotters are busyarguing the relative merits of an unfinished programming language … some things will never … Continue reading
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Launched… (kinda)
After a few bumps and scrapes to get there… Burningahole.co.uk launched but it did seem a bit slow… I still have a heap of db optimization to do but it was really slow… Setting up Lighttpd wasn’t a breeze though … Continue reading
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Burning a Hole: The Search Engine For People Who Don’t Know What They Want
A while ago I decided to have a look at both Amazon and Google and see what was wrong with them and came to the conclusion that they are great when you know what you want, but not so good … Continue reading
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WordPress Clone in 27 Seconds
Essentially, I’m just going to rip the source code from this site, throw some witty commentary on it, and pass it off as a comprehensive tutorial series that not only clears acne but removes old and set-in stains from your … Continue reading
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Tabblo
I recently asked a question on the Django list and discovered a flame war about Ajax toolkits with such gems as … Frankly, you should just learn it because it will benefit you. It€™s not rocket science. That you refuse … Continue reading
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Blimey Django
At the moment I’m up to my neck in the python framework Django, and it’s fantastic. It seems to have all you’d want in terms of MVC goodness and is all in yummy python. So far I’m enjoying A Database … Continue reading
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Add microformats magic to your site
Read later: Vitamin Features » Add microformats magic to your site… too busy to read…
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Quick n obvious hack to drupal
Not big. Not clever… but I couldn’t find (or even search for) a Drupal block that shows a list of members anywhere. This is just to save someone else wasting their time thinking “someone else must have done this already”
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We Are The Monkeys (hey, hey!)
The first meeting of We Are The Monkeys is for anyone living in York and involved in the web industry in some shape or form (web design, web development, marketing, usability, ecommerce etc.) We Are The Monkeys (hey, hey!) .. … Continue reading
Tagged Design, Development, Ecommerce, Fun
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It’s a funny old world…
..when you are coding…. I’m not a great programmer. At the end of a day (literally), if something isn’t working I feel I have failed. It gives me a sick feeling in my stomach. It’s the feeling that makes me … Continue reading
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Python Web Crawler Spider
Apologies for all the development related posts at the moment, I seem to have a code spurt on… Here is my(adapted) rough version of a simple crawler…. spider.py use_spider.py I really like the fact that thes spider_usage.py file doesn’t require … Continue reading
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