Entries by Chris Ramsay
Chris Ramsay is a Systems Architect working for an Emerging Technology company in Hull, UK. He has a wife, two children, two cats, one guinea pig and several dozen tropical fish and keeps them all in his house in East Yorkshire. Want to get in touch? Mail me from this page.
I have finally got round to installing TweetDeck on one of my Linux Fedora 10 systems. Whilst trying to run the Adobe Air Application Installer ...
Abstract This seems to be a problem that a few people are experiencing these days when posting with apache hosted wordpress. The symptoms (in my experience) ...
Abstract Playing about with Django’s excellent admin interface this morning I came across a little problem that I am sure others will find if using Django ...
Outline An interesting problem reared its head today regarding the inability of my Django setup to connect to a remote MySQL server. I have just migrated ...
IMGP0811 Originally uploaded by chrisramsay A fish I found when walking at Spurn Point recently. Also a test of Flickr’s blog entry system.
Alexander Makarov has written an interesting article on Smashing Magazine comparing a few IDEs. Alexander has helpfully compiled a nice comparison chart here on Google ...
One of the developers at work has introduced me to something quite fantastic on the Unix command line - screen.
There are many occasions where I will create a few new files at once when doing some work in some code somewhere that is under ...
I seldom get through the working week without spending at least a little time on the MySQL server command line. I love those little things ...
A good friend of mine has been kind enough to donate me a Slim Devices Squeezebox (Merci Olaf & Isabelle, je vous dois beaucoup!). Basically ...
I was out walking round the cliffs at Flamborough Head last year and passed a field remarkably reminiscent of the old Windows XP default desktop ...
Abstract I have decided to reorganise my Subversion repos for a while now. Mainly due to historical reasons, the repo has contained multiple projects, which has ...
Indeed I can announce that I have been the architect of an award winning bit of software yet again! The on-demand broadband television service the ...
Yes, for me it is that time of year again - time to break out the sandals. Worn without socks (of course!) I find they ...
Sunday (yesterday) started well enough - woke up to a nice sunny day, decided to make a pack-up and go to the beach; maybe a ...
The pond in our back garden has seen an explosion in frog numbers this year - I hope that we have been in part responsible ...
I read Christopher Kunz's comments about name dropping in interviews with more than a passing interest this morning, as I am about to be engaged ...
Dan the Man, one of the tech guys on my team, has done a picture of me as a Simpsons character. I thought that I ...
I have been using Apache's Ant in place of Phing to run build tasks for a while, mainly due to the fact that there are ...
The system I have been working on has been mentioned on http://www.publictechnology.net - a website dedicated to public sector ICT and E-Government. Here is the article.
Yes, we've finally done it! The service we started building towards the end of last year has finally been released to a handful of customers. Even ...
At the beginning of this year I decided to keep track of all the books (not technical manuals, just fun ones) I read this year. ...
I spent 5 minutes searching out dog stories on the BBC web site. Husky's head gets trapped in wall Digger used to free trapped dog ...
Just before the Christmas break, I installed eAccelerator on our development servers in order to run some benchmark tests on the effects of code caching. ...
Yes, my old router died the other day - what a pain in the proverbials that was too. The dead router was a battered old ...