killorn: Here is a picture of legendary comic book writer Stan...
killorn : Here is a picture of legendary comic book writer Stan Lee at the exact moment he regretted ever picking up a pen in the first place.
Bradley Wright
Development, the Internets, and my other interests. Bradley Wright is a professional web developer living in London.
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Sharing files with virtual machines using NFS
In a previous post , I sang the virtues of VMWare Fusion ’s shared folders feature, and the way it lets one share files from the host OS to the guest OS. Folder sharing is a bit of a pain to install, especially because OS upgrades on the guest seem to break the guest tools installation. The solution is one of the oldest file sharing technologies there is: NFS . It’s easy to set up,…
git whatchanged
git whatchanged : Good tip this. Also, documentation on git whatchanged .
Now paying for GitHub
As I indicated much earlier , I stopped paying for GitHub because I have the server and know-how to host my own repos . However, my general policy is that I’m always happy to pay a small fee to services I don’t use in a way I should to justify their value, but merely to reward them for doing good work. So that brings me to the point of my post: with GitHub ’s new image view modes…
Posterous's idea of customer service, and where I differ
I’ve been dabbling with Posterous as a potential way of mitigating Tumblr’s recent downtime issues. The tl;dr version is that I didn’t like their service, and suggest some improvements. My experience with Posterous After importing my Tumblr blog into their system (which was all very smooth), I tried to edit a post and remove it, using one of their combo buttons: Unfortunately, in…
czottmann: Astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson enjoying the view:...
czottmann : Astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson enjoying the view: APOD: 2010 November 15 - Home from Above It’s like something from a sci-fi movie. Absolutely amazing.
Generating an SSL certificate for testing
Generating an SSL certificate for testing : As pointed out to me by Russ . He also points out that step 3 can be skipped completely by using -nodes instead of -des3 in step 1.
Issues mounting shared folders in VMWare Fusion 3
I recently took advantage of the VMWare 3 upgrade for only $9.99 USD , which has all gone well, except for one issue with /etc/fstab : it turns out that VMWare Fusion 3 tools doesn’t actually respect your mount settings, which means you lose all the permissions information contained therein. There’s a solution to the mount problem here , which works perfectly after a reboot. I hope…
Follow up to previous UX and Ryan Carson post
My previous post seems to have gotten the attention of Ryan himself . As Ryan mentions, I’m on Tumblr, which means no comments. I invite Ryan to email me at brad at this domain with his comments (I also did on Twitter, but last time I checked he had blocked me) and I will publish them. I’d also like to note that at the time of writing he has additionally blocked Tom Muller and Ben…
UX professional is a real role, and an important one
Over at ThinkVitamin , Ryan Carson has boldly declared that ‘UX Professional’ isn’t a Real Job . He lists a (relatively small) number of reasons for this, the primary being: A web site or app should be the product of a Web Designer and a Web Developer…(a)nyone else who is added into this equation is a waste of money and time. This seems a fairly limiting argument on the face of it, as his…
Tom Watson MP, giving the Met some grief over the Coulson scandal
Tom Watson MP, giving the Met some grief over the Coulson scandal
Compromising Twitter's OAuth security system
Compromising Twitter's OAuth security system : Well written and insightful Ars Technica article into OAuth, Twitter, and the issues Twitter is presenting to application developers via its OAuth implementation.
The Problem with Facebook's "Places"
The Problem with Facebook's "Places" : Here’s the thing about Facebook that really gets under my skin: They are slowly incorporating the features from every other independent web application on the internet. This is not inherently a problem—companies get bigger and they begin to have the resources to widen their feature set—the issue is that Facebook doesn’t do these features any better.
A few advanced Git tips
A few advanced Git tips : Given the, shall we say, “quirks” of the Git documentation and interface, tips like these are pure gold. I particularly like git checkout -t origin/feature and git push -u origin master , as feature branching is a large part of my work day.
An excellent Watchmen side story, by scans_daily.
An excellent Watchmen side story, by scans_daily .
marco: Given how well Jeff Bezos usually prioritizes reading...
marco : Given how well Jeff Bezos usually prioritizes reading and legibility, why are his announcements on the Amazon frontpage always images of poorly rendered text? In other news, I kind of want a new Kindle.
The story of "MVP Caribe", a baseball game mod for Latin America
The story of "MVP Caribe", a baseball game mod for Latin America : I really love this story. It shows how good things can get on the Internet, with fans working together to provide a good product for a niche that big publishers ignore.
New York Jews modernising their religion and self expression.
New York Jews modernising their religion and self expression.
Pretty sure Tumblr’s directory listing isn’t supposed to look...
Pretty sure Tumblr’s directory listing isn’t supposed to look like this (Safari 5).
Web–based services I pay for
Inspired by Josh’s post , I’ve decided to list (and give a shout out to) the services on the web that I pay for. MobileMe (£59/year) for computer, address book, and calendar synchronisation. I pay for MobileMe because I have 2 Macs (work, home) and an iPhone, and it’s by far the easiest way to keep them all synchronised. It’s a shame it costs so much, as I don’t use the email or website publishing…