robknight.org.uk
Welcome to Rob Knight's personal web site
This site contains my various outpourings across a variety of media sources, as well as other people's stuff that I've liked. It also hosts a (very) occasional blog and assorted pages detailing presentations I've given, a brief bio, some social networking stuff and a contact form.
New blog post: What's the point of software engineering? http://robknight.org.uk/blog...
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Hmm. My new spam filter sends me email whenever it blocks something. Which seems to be about every 30 seconds :-(
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New blog post: Ah, so that's why I hardly ever get comments... http://robknight.org.uk/blog...
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Have just managed to get @mig5ter's Drupal/Aegir/Drush_make workflow working. Works like a charm. http://www.mig5.net/content...
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@mtrends it's a shame their retail performance is so bad, Nokia's tech (especially @qtsoftware) is v. good and open source
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@greg_harvey try the --bwlimit flag (e.g. --bwlimit=20 for a 20KBps limit)
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robknight created branch master at robknight/foundation - http://github.com/robknig...
robknight created repository foundation - http://github.com/robknig...
Just used @aegirproject for the first time. Very impressive :-)
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New blog post: Peer-to-peer, private and utility http://robknight.org.uk/blog...
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@katiemoffat I've read it. It's the usual mix of common sense and hype that you get in those kinds of books
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@bernardlunn Thanks for the RT. Glad you enjoyed the post :-)
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New blog post: A peer-to-peer future for money and markets? http://robknight.org.uk/blog...
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How on earth did they manage to spend £22m on this? http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009... I've seen similar things done for 1% of that cost
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New blog post: Recent work - Drupal, Drupal, Drupal http://robknight.org.uk/blog...
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Presentation:Real Time Web with XMPP - http://www.infoq.com/present...
liking the 4gb upgrade on my Macbook. Can run Firefox and multiple VMs without fear now!
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“Piracy” and “anti-piracy”: A brief history from the Dark Ages to the Early Modern era - http://www.qwghlm.co.uk/2009...
Someone seems to have forgotten how to turn the heating off in this building. Am being slowly roasted alive :-(
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ResPublica launches new Drupal website, built by PRWD - http://blog.prwd.co.uk/news...
Memory, Filtering, and Creativity - http://cheeptalk.wordpress.com/2009...
@CharlotteGore Yes, but I've been using it for years & crashes only started recently. May just be coincidence after all.
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Impressed at Amazon refunding a delivery charge on a late delivery with no questions asked
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New blog post: Why winning is easier than finishing second http://robknight.org.uk/blog...
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@simonwheatley it might also be one of the local council mobile CCTV units (those things scare me!)
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RT @glynmoody: Questions for Lord Mandelson - http://www.pirateparty.org.uk/blog... UK Pirate Party has got a little list #mandelson #p2p
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Slightly amazed that we're spending taxpayers' money on reports on how to make iPhone apps http://www.visionandmedia.co.uk/page... - why not just google?
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@dominiccampbell Surely better than just *after* Christmas, when the credit card bill arrives. In truth, there's never a good time.
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@adriana872 makes me glad I'm not there! Fed up of talking shops these days, only action makes a difference
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Zend_Application - because it's more fun if we hide all the ways your application might not be working behind another layer of abstraction
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New blog post: Drupal and the usability question http://robknight.org.uk/blog...
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@mattycurry Oh, there's no excuse for sloppiness. 'Good' laziness is about not reinventing the wheel, but 'bad' laziness is just laziness
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@mattycurry Laziness in what sense? For programmers, laziness is a virtue
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New blog post: Magento shipping module update http://robknight.org.uk/blog...
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