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So far I’ve been pretty happy with my new Galaxy Nexus phone (with marmite sandwich, as my daughter reminds me). Sadly yesterday I ran into the apparently all too common “Download unsuccessful” problem when trying to install an application from the Market. This appears to be quite widespread, and neither of the suggested fixes worked [...]

I recently had the pleasure of setting up the Facebook live stream plugin on democracynow.org for their US election night coverage. This should have been a 5 minute job: Create a new Facebook application Specify the icon, logo, canvas page, site url and domain Wait a while to make sure the new app is rolled [...]

It turns out I’m more of an eclipse novice than I thought! Despite using Eclipse for Java development (since version 2!) and more recently for Rails work it’s taken me a while to figure out how to install the latest beta version of the Rails plugin for Aptana. To summarise: 1. Download the current stable [...]

At work we’re building an online community site with the aim of promoting sustainable lifestyles – quite similar to A year of living generously The deadline is fast approaching, and Matthew and I have been coding hard to meet it. Last week we were discussing what seemed to be a fairly generic problem – what’s [...]

Background I fought off buying my MacBook Pro just long enough for the hardware problems to surface, but not quite long enough for them to be addressed. In retrospect I think I faired reasonably well: Sure the screen is bent, and so doesn’t sit flush when closed. OK the machine gets a bit toasty under [...]

I gave an effusive talk on Rails at work after completing my first project. Coming from a Java background, I was impressed that it was easy to pick up, get started and get things done with less faff than J2EE. Convention was the new king, and I his happy servant. Buoyed by my new found [...]