Two weeks ago my hard drive failed and as if by coincidence Ubuntu Hardy was due out the next day. This seemed like an ideal opportunity to take a day off (the now nearly finished) idlasso and install the newest Ubuntu. I have skipped a few versions of Ubuntu so was mightly impressed [...]

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Back in Feburary 2007 myself and Andy went to BarcampLondon2 on an exploratory trip to bash around a few ideas for what would later become idlasso. I presented on scaling web applications, the presentation for which can be seen at slideshare or below:

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I’ve just found a great video of Google’s CIO on innovation. There’s a fantastic part where he states you need to reward innovation and risk taking and not punish failure. In my experience this seems to be the polar opposite from most companies these days!

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I’m really into rails performance (and now merb but that wasn’t around when this post was written) so decided to look at a comparison between the standard rails versions – 1.1, 1.2 and 2.0. In these tests the excellent railsbench was used to drive the tests – I favor this over the standard rails [...]

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PC-Rower was a piece of software produced for my dissertation at Durham. The idea was simple, plug rowing machines into a computer and create images of boats racing down a river that can be projected in front of the rowing machines. It was created using SWT from the eclipse project and communicated with [...]

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