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Posts from December 2007

Getting WordPress, mod_rewrite and Leopard to work together

I’ve been trying to get Leopard, Apache 2 and WordPress working together for a while now. I want to use the WordPress friendly URL feature, and this requires the Apache mod_rewrite module to work too. There are various places around the web that have partial solutions to these problems. Here’s the procedure I followed - [...]


More book reviews

I’m ploughing through the book backlog at a decent pace, with three more finished this evening. They are:

The Rain Before it Falls by Jonathan Coe

The Artificial Silk Girl by Irmgard Kuen

The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol

Just as I thought there was some order returning to my piles of books, there was a book sale [...]


Book backlog

I’ve been remiss recently in writing up my reviews for 26 Books. Tonight, I caught up on three that were waiting - The Carhullan Army by Sarah Hall, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera and Exit Ghost by Philip Roth, which still leaves me with five on the pile, plus the half-dozen [...]


REST links

I’ve been doing some research into REST and API design over the last couple of days for a client. In my travels, I collected a few really useful links and quotes.
The overriding feeling is that most APIs that claim to be REST APIs are in fact not. Most of them seem to be more RPC-style [...]


From the archive: How to be a Brain in a Brainstorm

[The third in my series of posts that have disappeared with Interesource, but which I would like to keep available. This one was a look at how to be useful and polite in a brainstorm. It was originally published on 2nd April 2007.]

We often run brainstorms for clients here at Interesource. We have a group [...]


iPhone beats Windows Mobile in 5 short months.

Wow. The iPhone already has a greater share of the browser market than all Windows Mobile/CE devices combined. Windows CE is 10 years old, while the iPhone is just 5 months old.
(Via 9 to 5 Mac.)


Facebook and iPhoto

I’m probably the last person in the known universe to find out about this, but I’ve been very impressed recently with the Facebook iPhoto Exporter. It adds another tab to the Export dialog that lets you create albums, upload photos and tag your friends in them. Very slick.
Here’s what it looks like in practice (click [...]