- My Name is Tom, or Errant. I write about geeky things, politics, and life in general and politic. My current day job is in computer security but I have been known to program in my spare time.
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WordPress Plugin: WP-Notifo
Notifo is a cool new service that lets websites send push notifications to your phone (currently iPhone only). They have a cool API which allows you to register an application and start pushing notifications to people who request it. They’ve … Continue reading
Announcing Modular
Modular is my new Kohana module designed to help you manage your other modules! Version 1.0 allows you to track installed and loaded modules and load/unload them with a single click. The list of loaded modules is stored in the … Continue reading
Using Version Control as a “Save” package
This week I was without internet but with netbook; which left me somewhat free to code whatever took my fancy. So, armed with the latest mercurial release and as much info on the API available (read: very little) I set … Continue reading
KTwitter: Kohana, Twitter, Oauth
This is just a small announcement of the first release of KTwitter; a Twitter library for Kohana. I know there is an excellent Twitter library already but it makes use of the old username/password method – which Twitter now discourages. … Continue reading
Mercury Baby!
Im a mercurial convert; there are 2 reasons for this. The first one is that I was experimenting with new SCM systems after falling out of love with SVN. It’s just old and I needed a refresh. So I went … Continue reading
New Kohana Module: Minify
Introducting Minify. It’s just a simple wrapper around jsmin and cssmin to turn it into a Kohana Library. The library handles the minification, setting the correct headers and Gzipping the output for smaller files (based on the rules set out … Continue reading
Has Linux run it’s course?
There always seems to be, in mainstream *nix users, an ingrained belief that unix is “different” from Windows. As any hardcore Linux hacker will tell you: it ain’t the case at all. The same core concepts tend to exist in … Continue reading
Xtags demo!
A quick Xtags demo has been released! The current (very buggy) version supports Markdown, BBcode, Geshi and smileys parsing. The smileys look pretty cool! Geshi was very hard to integrate – and I am still not happy with it. Once … Continue reading