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almost 6 years ago by mathie on Notes from a messy desk.
Apparently I’m having a slightly distracted day. I should be fiddling around with portal catalogues in Plone and I should be creating a simple photograph...

The Databox

almost 6 years ago by mathie on Notes from a messy desk.
Yeah, I want a Databox. Actually, like Simon, really I want a Thumper, but after my experiences with the T2000, I think I’d be made to switch it...

Tabular FormBuilder for easily creating forms in Rails

almost 6 years ago by mathie on Notes from a messy desk.
OK, HTML forms. There’s a bit of a nightmare. How do you style them so that they are semantically correct, but look good on all modern browsers...

Using the shell within irb

almost 6 years ago by mathie on Notes from a messy desk.
A couple of weeks ago, I had a little diversion, playing around with the shell bits and pieces in Ruby core. And it sounded like it could be quite handy...

Wedding Photo picks

almost 6 years ago by mathie on Notes from a messy desk.
OK, this is getting silly. We’ve had our wedding photographs for over six months now, and haven’t really done anything with them — just...

Game Recommendations?

almost 6 years ago by mathie on Notes from a messy desk.
Dublin was fantastic. And we caved and bought a shiny black Nintendo DS Lite, though not ’til the day after we arrived back from London. We’...