Archive for September, 2007

How to ‘win’ at subversion

Friday, September 28th, 2007

Carl bagged the 1000th commit on a big project by cheating with this script:

while :; do svn up | ruby -e 'gets; if $_ =~ /999/; `svn commit -m 'Winnah.' ../trunk`; end'; sleep 30; done

The contents of the commit? A single file containing the word ‘Winnah’.

Friday Link-o-Rama

Friday, September 28th, 2007

Deathstar Canteen

Witch kitchen jars

Snake Oil

Funny Graffiti

Hammer time

Star Wars T-Shirts

Cool in a very nerdy way.

YinYang and Malichite

Good games.

MegaPenny project

Old but good.

Rat slippers, fish-shoes

Rat slippers

Amazing oil-art

Oil Art

Friday Link-o-Rama

Friday, September 21st, 2007

Look sir, droids!

Slug game

Bathroom break

Glow fish

This seems so wrong, but I still want some.

Glow fish

Internet warnings

Internet warning

Office fridge

sneaky

Keep you’re eyes on the bat

If Starwars was The Simpsons

Cadburys Gorilla advert

PHP is stupid

Wednesday, September 19th, 2007

cheetara:~ will$ php -r 'pg_escape_string();'

Warning: pg_escape_string() expects exactly 2 parameters, 0 given in Command line code on line 1
cheetara:~ will$ php -r 'pg_escape_string( "" );'
cheetara:~ will$

Why?! Thanks to Carl for spotting this particular inadequacy in PHP.

Friday Link-o-Rama

Friday, September 7th, 2007

Lots of cool furniture

Paper art

Amazing book sculptures

Country New Wave

This is terrible, but I couldn’t stop watching.

Cinco Midi Organizer

JellyBattle

Really good flash game. Very addictive.

Online Kaleidoscope

Pretty.

Map of all the freecycle groups in the US

Monday, September 3rd, 2007

Just for fun I plotted all the Freecycle groups in the US on a google map (as you do). An interesting side-effect is that the map shows population density, the darker the area the greater the population. It is easy to spot the cities:

Freecycle Map

The data is fairly old, there are almost certainly more groups than this now.