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All things move toward their end

by Amminous on Aug.23, 2010, under General

And when reached it’s best to acknowledge the end, so it’s with a slightly heavy heart that I’ll be leaving my current employers (iMeta) and moving to fields fresh over at New Voice Media. I’ve been with iMeta for nearly 5 years now, during which time I’ve learnt a hell of a lot, most of which I couldn’t have learnt elsewhere. But there’s only so far you can take somethings, and this ones run its course.

On the plus side I’ll be commuting to NVM (based in Basingstoke) by train, so will free up 2 hrs a day for CI or work development. I’ve ordered myself a new laptop, and will be able to afford the R# license soon so will be back with development vengance in a few short weeks!

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C# Syntax Highlighting Test…

by Amminous on Aug.22, 2010, under WordPress

C#

var x = 0;
var y = 5m;
var z = "A String";
var a = new object();
foreach(var c in customers)
{
   while(x<100)
   {
      x++;
      y = x*5;
   }
}
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PHP Syntax highlighting test…

by Amminous on Aug.22, 2010, under WordPress

PHP

/*
Plugin Name: Syntax Highlighter and Code Prettifier Plugin for WordPress
Plugin URI: http://www.lastengine.com/syntax-highlighter-wordpress-plugin
Description: Simple and probably one of the best syntax highlighters in the market. This plugin integrates Alex Gorbatchev's Syntax Highlighter Tool : http://alexgorbatchev.com/wiki/SyntaxHighlighter. Full Support for : Bash/shell, C#, C++, CSS, Delphi, Diff, Groovy, JavaScript, Java, Perl, PHP, Plain Text, Python, Ruby, Scala, SQL, Visual Basic and XML.
Version: 2.1.364
Author: Vijesh Mehta
Author URI: http://www.lastengine.com
*/

function highlighter_header() {
	$current_path = get_option('siteurl') .'/wp-content/plugins/' . basename(dirname(__FILE__)) .'/';

}

add_action('wp_head','highlighter_header');
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Another Raymond jewel of a post

by Amminous on Aug.17, 2010, under General

This time on the Help system “preparing your help for the first time” animation, with the moral being that the most performant approach ain’t always the best.
Anway the articles here

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Excellent posts on the garbage collector

by Amminous on Aug.13, 2010, under .NET, General

Raymond Chen (he of The Old New Thing blog fame) has been writing a lot about the garbage collector and the CLR over the past few days.

If you’re doing any CLR work reading these articles will give you much better understanding of what’s going on under the covers. A very good insight into the operation of the garbage collector.

If you’ve not read Raymond before have a go, his writing style is fairly acerbic, but he cuts right to the point, and isn’t afraid to tell it how it is!

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Offtopic, but oh so funny

by Amminous on Aug.12, 2010, under General

If you’ve not hit upon young Rhys Morgan and his adventures with the Crohns Disease Forum, have a watch of this vid - http://www.twitvid.com/Z7TOH. Basically Rhys, who’s 15, has been diagnosed with Crohns disease, a particularly nasty disorder. He signed up to a support forum and whilst there found out about a substance marketed as Miracle Mineral Solution, a somewhat quack-esque product that the FDA in America have advised everyone to stay the hell away from. It’s basically an industrial bleach that people are being told can cure AIDS/Cancer/Crohns/solve world hunger – the usual snake oil shit. Rhys had found the FDA notice and was attempting to warn people on the forum about the dangers of ingesting bleach – quite sensible for a 15 year old you’d think.

Guess what? Believers on the forum didn’t take too well to being told that MMS is dangerous and retaliated quite visicously – Rhys got a ban and made a video explaining the situation. Ben Goldacre – he of Bad Science fame and well known anti-quack – picked up the story, tweeted it to his followers and Rhys has picked up a lot of attention.

The admins on the forum have reacted the only way that alt med  believers can – deny everything and anything and are in the process of libelling the hell out of Rhys – check out the video and the comments if you fancy a laugh at these ID10Ts – http://www.twitvid.com/Z7TOH

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Settling in

by Amminous on Aug.12, 2010, under WordPress

I think I’ve pretty much got WordPress to where I want it. The number of themes and plugins available is staggering. So far I’m using

  • Share and Follow (for the share links under each post and the right hand follow links)
  • All in One SEO (for search engine optimization)
  • Google Analytics (wires up Google Analytics and brings stats data into the WP admin screen)
  • WP Super Cache (improves WordPress performance)
  • XML Sitemap Feed (for feeding Google / Bing / Yahoo crawlers)
  • Gravatar Widget (for displaying Amminous over on the right)

The theme I’m using is Pixel 2.0.2

So far the whole thing has been a pleasure to setup and get running. Fingers crossed it’ll stay such a joy.

Development work on CI has slowed a little, should have a vid up soon showing off Drag’n'Drop adorners. This was the last piece of the Drag’n'Drop puzzle that I needed to solve. Now that’s out of the way I can concentrate on the really important stuff, building production chains!

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Dang… b0rked it

by Amminous on Aug.07, 2010, under WordPress

Forgot the server was being changed, blog disappeared and also the version of the HTML / JS tool I had up online. Probably won’t be getting those back up and running any time soon, concentrating on the WPF version for the moment.

Anyway, put WordPress up for the MLM blog, tried their hosted service before and wanted to give the installed version a go. Used Microsofts Web Installer, made the whole thing quite straightforward.

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