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Sequel Pro Tips: table filters and auto-suggest 15 Jun 2012 | 01:57 am
Sequel Pro is great, and there are a few tricks to make it even greater. If you have a database with a lot of tables then the table filter field is useful: A neat tip is that you can use the pipe cha...
Finding bad and out-of-date passwords in 1password 9 Jun 2012 | 04:56 pm
I use 1password to keep track of all my passwords. Over the years I’ve built up a lot of logins and a lot of passwords, and for various reasons some of them are not so good. With the recent news abou...
Redirection: one million downloads old 21 May 2012 | 01:31 am
Noticed this on the Redirection plugin page: That’s over a million downloads. Crazy. I’ve been tidying the plugin up a bit in 2.2.14, with the aim of simplifying things in 2.3 (available from SVN tr...
MAMP Slow Queries 1 May 2012 | 05:17 am
Ever wanted to track down slow SQL queries while developing with MAMP on OS X? From the MAMP control panel edit the my.cnf template: Track down the section starting with [mysqld] and add the followin...
A Beach Boy in London 19 Sep 2011 | 08:24 am
Brian Wilson and band at the Royal Festival Hall. He may be looking a little worn around the edges (and increasingly like Jeff Bridges), but he’s still a Beach Boy.
14.7% of the web 20 Aug 2011 | 06:12 am
14.7% of the top million websites in the world, up from 8.5%, and the latest data show 22 out of every 100 new active domains in the US are running WordPress.Matt Mullenweg, 2011 That’s quite some re...
Setting up Sublime Text 2 for PHP 16 Aug 2011 | 08:02 am
I’ve mentioned Sublime Text 2 before. Although it’s in beta, and a little rough around the edges, it’s become my editor of the moment. Being a TextMate user it’s showing a lot of promise, and fortunat...
Remote editing with Sublime Text 2 13 Aug 2011 | 07:48 pm
I’ve been quite taken with Sublime Text 2 recently, and I’ve been trying to find a way to introduce it into my daily work flow. While it’s perfect for editing files locally, it doesn’t have any built-...
London riots touch Camden 9 Aug 2011 | 10:11 pm
The pointless rioting happening in London touched Camden last night. This morning I had a look. Domino’s was first. A little further down the road and Evans Cycles was badly damaged: Unmarked polic...
Lego Brick Flats 17 Jul 2011 | 03:03 am
Seen from the Ngong Ping cable car in Hong Kong. From the distance the photos were taken it almost looks like a toy. An incredible concentration of lives.