Posted: Wed 18 Dec, 2019, 16:01
Allowing readers to add comments to my blogs led me to figure out how to use Fuseki as a backing-store for the comments. Making my site interactive rather than just read-only is exciting step forward.
Posted: Fri 24 Mar, 2017, 10:03
VIM Fireplace - a vim plugin for Clojure development. Getting it working on Git Bash was not easy, but worth it.
Posted: Thu 02 Mar, 2017, 08:53
Escape the fogginess and uncertainty of a cloud solution and host your own site at home. A recent convergence of technologies has made this obvious solution both simple and desirable.
Posted: Wed 01 Mar, 2017, 17:26
A guide to using certbot to create a trusted, valid and free certificate for your website.
Posted: Tue 07 Feb, 2017, 15:49
Notes from working with the Gradle C++ plugin
Posted: Thu 12 Jan, 2017, 15:02
All those once-a-month git commands that I can never remember.
Posted: Wed 06 Jul, 2016, 18:32
Sharing my Linux GPS/HRM tracking setup, as it took a bit of effort - as all things do on Linux.
Posted: Sat 21 May, 2016, 13:32
triki now supports Activity Streams 2.0 for blogs. Learning about AS2 has opened up the very cool IndieWeb project to me, so there are plenty more options to improve triki's connectedness.
Posted: Sat 21 May, 2016, 12:32
My eldest son has just started coding, something I confess I have mixed feelings about.
Posted: Sun 15 May, 2016, 14:20
An online journey from closed, restricted and commercial social networks monopolies to a new breed of independent personal websites linked by open social networks.
Posted: Fri 06 May, 2016, 19:07
Not many teams use Behaviour Driven Development (BDD). This blog shows how even as developers we can leverage BDD tools to build robust solutions, more quickly and with greater transparency.
Posted: Sun 01 May, 2016, 23:07
Which is a cheaper way to propel an automotive vehicle - domestic electricity or petrol/diesel? Now you can find out.
Posted: Wed 13 Apr, 2016, 11:07
Introducing triki, an open source semantic web server. Imagine taking your own social media graph from Facebook, your reviews from TripAdvisor, your blogs from blogspot and your photos for Flikr and running your own site where you can still share with friends but also control your own content. Welcome to the triki.
Posted: Sat 26 Mar, 2016, 17:15
My thoughts on how Web culture
has evolved since the 90's and some of the problems we
are now facing with social media monopolies. We are giving away our
content and control for priviledge of efficient sharing.
Posted: Fri 25 Mar, 2016, 19:15
I find CSS fiendishly difficult whenever I come back to it I end up having to re-learn stuff. This is my cheat sheet.
Posted: Sat 12 Mar, 2016, 19:29
My thoughts on Cucumber Groovy and Spock BDD tools. Since writing this however I actually prefer Cucumber still but am leaving the blog for now. It is what I thought at the time.
Posted: Thu 27 Feb, 2014, 19:00
10 reasons why Guice is better than Spring
