Will Jessop's Writings

2012/February

• Paula Deen riding things

  Do you want to see Paula Deen riding a sausage? Because now you can.

2011/December

• Testing http over socket connections with socat

  Easy socat command for testing local HTTP connections listening on a UNIX socket.

2011/November

• Cloud email service price comparison

  A comparison of Sendgrid, AES SES, Postmark and Mailgun pricing

2011/January

• Should I switch from Sendgrid to Amazon SES?

  I compared all Sendgrid and Amazon SES prices to see who was cheaper

2009/March

• Rewriting URL params in nginx

  Re-writing query params from one format into another is pretty simple.

2007/April

• Tricks of the Trade

  An interesting article on tricks of the trade

2006/July

• A great 'site unavailable' message

  I guess it’s honest

• 99 bottles of Ruby beer on the wall

  99 bottles of beer codegolf

2006/February

• Fixing the 'Memory card error' on the Canon IXUS 400 / S3

  All you need is a couple of small screwdrivers, and maybe a new battery.

2005/November

• New hard disc

  I bought a Hard Disc platter from 1978, it’s cool.