deferred until inspiration hits

Table of Contents (or why you may not have been expecting to see this page)

Google and Yahoo have indexed some of my paged articles (e.g. articles/page/50). Although these paged articles may appear in the search results for a given search term there is no guarantee that the page is still relevant. In fact, as I only had three articles per page, it would only take the addition of another three articles to render google's index of these pages useless. I've decided to forwarded requests for any of these paged article resources to this table of contents in an attempt to be more useful to you.

Pwdhash Widget

Posted by Chris Roos Mon, 19 May 2008 21:58:15

A trip to the tip

Posted by Chris Roos Mon, 19 May 2008 09:42:29

Redesigning my blog

Posted by Chris Roos Tue, 29 Apr 2008 06:17:07

Exporting query results to a remote machine with MySql (an alternative to SELECT INTO OUTFILE)

Posted by Chris Roos Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:45:29

Another project - Public Swimming Pools in the UK

Posted by Chris Roos Mon, 31 Mar 2008 14:18:43

Reference Trackback Server implementation

Posted by Chris Roos Sat, 29 Mar 2008 06:27:05

Files hosted on Google Groups cannot be opened in Safari (or Internet Explorer)

Posted by Chris Roos Sat, 29 Mar 2008 06:06:02

Version Control Commit Note Best Practice (or not, you decide)

Posted by Chris Roos Fri, 28 Mar 2008 19:17:57

Version 0.2 of the del.icio.us trackback extension

Posted by Chris Roos Tue, 04 Mar 2008 09:30:00

National Rail Train Times by SMS (again)

Posted by Chris Roos Thu, 28 Feb 2008 17:45:00

Tagging my del.icio.us bookmarks with the domain of the URL that I'm bookmarking

Posted by Chris Roos Tue, 26 Feb 2008 08:49:00

What I've been up to - Projects and Ideas

Posted by Chris Roos Mon, 18 Feb 2008 10:12:00

Atom (like RSS) feeds for thisiskent.co.uk news stories

Posted by Chris Roos Mon, 18 Feb 2008 10:00:00

Sending trackbacks to the sites that you bookmark in del.icio.us

Posted by Chris Roos Mon, 04 Feb 2008 09:53:00

Migration from Typo to a static site is complete

Posted by Chris Roos Wed, 23 Jan 2008 23:15:34

Migrating this blog from Typo to a static site

Posted by Chris Roos Wed, 23 Jan 2008 08:48:00

Tags blog, ruby, typo,

Emailing photos to flickr from my Skypephone

Posted by Chris Roos Thu, 17 Jan 2008 18:20:00

Tags email, flickr, mms, pictures, skypephone,

Testing my mod_rewrite configuration with ruby

Posted by Chris Roos Wed, 16 Jan 2008 09:31:00

Tags apache, mod_rewrite, ruby, test,

Chris 1, mod_rewrite 0 (muhahahaha)

Posted by Chris Roos Wed, 16 Jan 2008 09:08:00

Tags apache, local, mod_rewrite, paper.co.uk, the, the-local-paper.co.uk, tlpa,

Fun with mod_rewrite (and its special variables REQUEST_URI, IS_SUBREQ and THE_REQUEST)

Posted by Chris Roos Mon, 14 Jan 2008 10:14:00

Tags apache, mod_rewrite, url,

Searching subversion history

Posted by Chris Roos Mon, 14 Jan 2008 09:59:00

Tags ruby, script, search, subversion, svn, trac,

Extracting my del.icio.us permalinks functionality into its own firefox extension

Posted by Chris Roos Tue, 18 Dec 2007 23:01:00

Tags bookmark, del.icio.us, extension, firefox, permalinks,

Cross browser (well, IE 6, Firefox 2 and Safari 3) bookmarklet script

Posted by Chris Roos Fri, 14 Dec 2007 21:27:00

Tags bookmarklet, browser, explorer, firefox, internet, internet-explorer, javascript, safari,

Web pages should specify their canonical URL (permalink)

Posted by Chris Roos Fri, 14 Dec 2007 17:49:00

Tags bookmark, del.icio.us,

Bookmarklet (Favelet) limits in Internet Explorer 6 (and 7?)

Posted by Chris Roos Fri, 14 Dec 2007 08:46:00

Tags bookmarklet, browser, explorer, internet, internet-explorer, javascript, ruby, url,

Testing ActionMailer::Base.server_settings

Posted by Chris Roos Fri, 07 Dec 2007 17:23:00

Tags action, action-mailer, mailer, rails, ruby,

More on those friendly URLs

Posted by Chris Roos Fri, 07 Dec 2007 07:26:00

Tags apache, decenturl, mod_rewrite, mongrel, ruby, tinyurl, url,

Ruby Rake - Invoke vs Execute

Posted by Chris Roos Thu, 06 Dec 2007 16:26:00

Tags rake, ruby,

Fun with Selenium

Posted by Chris Roos Tue, 27 Nov 2007 09:36:00

Tags reevoo, selenium, testing,

Short, Human Friendly, Permalinks

Posted by Chris Roos Tue, 27 Nov 2007 09:31:00

Tags permalink, tinyurl,

VRM vs Affiliate Marketing

Posted by Chris Roos Mon, 26 Nov 2007 22:23:00

Tags affiliate, amazon, marketing, vrm,

Wow. Google must really love Chris.

Posted by Chris Roos Tue, 20 Nov 2007 22:51:00

Tags google, index, search, universal, universal-search,

Can anyone recommend a good simple web hosting solution?

Posted by Chris Roos Tue, 20 Nov 2007 22:07:00

Tags email, google, hosting,

The Skypephone so far

Posted by Chris Roos Sun, 18 Nov 2007 19:15:00

Tags skype, skypephone, three,

NewNet and BT Broadband problems

Posted by Chris Roos Fri, 16 Nov 2007 13:38:00

Tags adsl, broadband, bt, newnet,

HSBC Conclusion

Posted by Chris Roos Thu, 15 Nov 2007 17:14:00

Tags crap, hsbc, ofx,

Naughty spammy Tesco Entertainment

Posted by Chris Roos Wed, 31 Oct 2007 22:17:00

Tags email, spam, tesco,

A common pattern in retailers' receipt pages (and a microformat solution)

Posted by Chris Roos Fri, 19 Oct 2007 07:58:00

Tags commerce, javascript, microformat, receipt, retail,

More Hsbc Shenanigans

Posted by Chris Roos Mon, 15 Oct 2007 20:13:00

Tags banking, hsbc, internet, ofx,

Trying to speak to someone in development at Hsbc - can anyone help?

Posted by Chris Roos Fri, 05 Oct 2007 08:43:00

Tags banking, bug, crap, development, hsbc, internet, ofx, wesabe,

A microformat for my contact details (instant messaging, twitter et al)

Posted by Chris Roos Wed, 03 Oct 2007 23:52:00

Tags aim, contact, email, im, messaging, microformat, msn, ruby, skype, twitter, yim,

Finding similar sites by mining the del.icio.us data

Posted by Chris Roos Wed, 03 Oct 2007 08:00:00

Tags del.icio.us, dom, javascript,

Commenting on my del.icio.us bookmarks

Posted by Chris Roos Sat, 29 Sep 2007 09:32:00

Tags bookmark, comments, conversation, del.icio.us,

Monitoring the Mac OSX Filesystem with ruby

Posted by Chris Roos Sat, 29 Sep 2007 09:11:00

Tags cron, file, file-system, fslogger, rsync, ruby, script, sync, system,

Why should it do that?

Posted by Chris Roos Thu, 27 Sep 2007 07:36:00

Tags agiledox, bdd, development, ruby, tdd, test, testing,

Companies. You must make it simple for me to unsubscribe from your marketing shite.

Posted by Chris Roos Fri, 21 Sep 2007 07:40:00

Tags marketing, shite, spam,

Patching the del.icio.us firefox extension to add permalinks

Posted by Chris Roos Wed, 05 Sep 2007 22:41:00

Tags bookmarks, del.icio.us, extension, firefox, permalinks,

Permalinks for del.icio.us bookmarks (posts)

Posted by Chris Roos Tue, 04 Sep 2007 23:23:00

Tags bookmark, cool, curl, del.icio.us, permalink, pingback, ruby, trackback,

Blue card user stories coming out of the reevoo.com feedback

Posted by Chris Roos Fri, 31 Aug 2007 15:13:00

Tags reevoo,

Responses to reevoo.com feedback

Posted by Chris Roos Thu, 23 Aug 2007 15:14:00

Tags feedback, reevoo,

Holiday in Newqay

Posted by Chris Roos Tue, 14 Aug 2007 06:30:00

Tags camping, cool, holiday, newquay,

A new reevoo.com

Posted by Chris Roos Wed, 01 Aug 2007 08:32:00

Tags comments, reevoo, request, reviews,

Train times by SMS (or, improving national rail enquiries)

Posted by Chris Roos Tue, 24 Jul 2007 14:40:00

Tags cool, nationalrail, sms, timetable, twitter, twitterbot,

Free google website optimizer isn't actually free

Posted by Chris Roos Tue, 17 Jul 2007 22:36:00

Tags adwords, google, naughty, optimizer, website, website-optimizer,

Web service to convert UK Postcodes (outcode) to Latitude and Longitude

Posted by Chris Roos Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:41:00

Tags mongrel, outcodes, postcodes, rest, ruby, service, web,

Wesabe open up their API and ask me to help write their press release...

Posted by Chris Roos Thu, 12 Jul 2007 23:49:00

Tags api, cool, pr, praise, ramble, wesabe,

A great day at work and reevoovision (twittervision for reviews)

Posted by Chris Roos Tue, 26 Jun 2007 09:20:00

Tags reevoo, reevoovision, reviews, twitter, twittervision,

Automatically downloading my Ing Direct transactions

Posted by Chris Roos Sat, 23 Jun 2007 18:00:00

Tags curl, direct, finance, ing, ing-direct, ofx, ruby, transaction, wesabe,

This makes me happy

Posted by Chris Roos Sat, 23 Jun 2007 17:34:00

Tags airlines, blog, flickr, internet, kia, manston, oasis, oasis-airlines, photo, plane, thanet,

Automatically download egg credit card transactions

Posted by Chris Roos Sat, 23 Jun 2007 12:34:00

Tags curl, egg, finance, ofx, ruby, wesabe,

I really don't know whether this is spam or not...

Posted by Chris Roos Wed, 13 Jun 2007 22:18:00

Tags sad, spam,

Steel mounted photographic wall prints (or, cool pictures printed on metal) in Thanet

Posted by Chris Roos Thu, 07 Jun 2007 08:44:00

Tags art, broadstairs, graphic, photo, print, printeriordesign, thanet,

Reevoo.com and Seo

Posted by Chris Roos Thu, 07 Jun 2007 08:30:00

Tags reevoo, seo,

A little further investigation into those pesky scammers

Posted by Chris Roos Wed, 06 Jun 2007 23:11:00

Tags comments, spam,

Ranting about Sky

Posted by Chris Roos Tue, 05 Jun 2007 23:03:00

Tags shit, sky,

An open letter to my local newspapers

Posted by Chris Roos Fri, 01 Jun 2007 12:00:00

Tags converse, discourse, kent, media, newspaper, thanet,

I wanna be cool too

Posted by Chris Roos Fri, 01 Jun 2007 09:10:00

Tags lifestream, tumblr,

Pesky Scammers

Posted by Chris Roos Thu, 17 May 2007 22:55:00

Tags spam, spammed, spammedy,

Automatically downloading my recent transactions from Lloyds Tsb

Posted by Chris Roos Mon, 14 May 2007 22:39:00

Tags banking, lloyds, lloyds-tsb, qif, tsb, wesabe,

Automatically downloading my most recent Hsbc transactions

Posted by Chris Roos Fri, 04 May 2007 12:53:00

Tags curl, egg, hsbc, ingdirect, ofx, ruby, wesabe,

A fun (and crappy) Monday morning quiz

Posted by Chris Roos Mon, 30 Apr 2007 09:08:00

Tags job, quiz, reevoo, ruby,

Tonic Systems TonicPoint free Powerpoint viewer

Posted by Chris Roos Fri, 20 Apr 2007 09:01:00

Tags google, office, powerpoint, software,

ebay feedback

Posted by Chris Roos Sat, 14 Apr 2007 08:47:00

Tags ebay, feedback,

Small, specific mongrel web servers

Posted by Chris Roos Sat, 14 Apr 2007 00:44:00

Tags http, mongrel, rest, restful, ruby, servers, web,

Getting to grips with pwdhash

Posted by Chris Roos Wed, 11 Apr 2007 22:27:00

Tags hashing, hmac, javascript, md5, pwdhash, ruby,

I want fast trains

Posted by Chris Roos Wed, 04 Apr 2007 20:19:00

Tags commute, train, travel,

Obtaining latitude/longitude for UK postcodes

Posted by Chris Roos Tue, 03 Apr 2007 21:33:00

Tags cool, naughty, ruby, streetmap,

Converting Egg Credit Card Statements to Ofx (for upload to wesabe)

Posted by Chris Roos Sun, 01 Apr 2007 13:48:00

Tags egg.com, finance, ofx, wesabe,

Monkey patching rails routing

Posted by Chris Roos Mon, 19 Mar 2007 22:16:00

Tags rails, routing,

Repairing an Hp Pavilion N5241 laptop

Posted by Chris Roos Sun, 18 Mar 2007 20:22:00

Orange, orange, orange

Posted by Chris Roos Fri, 16 Mar 2007 19:58:00

Tags crap, naughty, orange,

Frustrating user experience with Hsbc online banking

Posted by Chris Roos Mon, 12 Mar 2007 23:13:00

Tags crap, hsbc,

The worst word in the world... ever

Posted by Chris Roos Fri, 09 Mar 2007 10:28:00

Tags made, made-up-words, neologism, up, words,

It'll grow back, right?

Posted by Chris Roos Mon, 05 Mar 2007 22:16:00

Tags oops, sony, vaio,

Digital Photo Prints from PhotoBox

Posted by Chris Roos Sun, 04 Mar 2007 08:13:00

Tags flickr, photo, photobox, printing,

Crashing IE 6 with style(sheets)

Posted by Chris Roos Thu, 15 Feb 2007 22:49:00

Tags ie, internetexplorer, reevoo,

Visualising the changing responsibilities of objects

Posted by Chris Roos Mon, 29 Jan 2007 21:17:00

Tags diff, ruby, testing,

Combining distributed small tools as an alternative to Backpack et al

Posted by Chris Roos Fri, 12 Jan 2007 11:53:00

Tags cool, distributed, opensearch, rest, software,

Encapsulation in Active Record objects

Posted by Chris Roos Fri, 12 Jan 2007 01:37:00

Tags encapsulation, rails, ruby, testing,

Move over seetickets.com - you've got nothing on orange.co.uk

Posted by Chris Roos Fri, 12 Jan 2007 00:03:00

Tags crap, email, naughty, unsubscribe,

Bad seetickets.com

Posted by Chris Roos Fri, 05 Jan 2007 17:54:00

Tags crap, naughty, seetickets,

Homegrown gooogie

Posted by Chris Roos Thu, 04 Jan 2007 14:37:00

Tags cool, google, gooogie, hack,

cURL is fast becoming my favourite toy

Posted by Chris Roos Sun, 24 Dec 2006 17:04:00

Tags cool, curl, hack, hsbc, ruby,

The worst captcha... ever.

Posted by Chris Roos Sun, 24 Dec 2006 11:02:00

Tags captcha, crap,

Might as well aim high...

Posted by Chris Roos Fri, 15 Dec 2006 17:07:00

Tags google, reevoo, review, worlddomination,

Addicted to twitter.com

Posted by Chris Roos Thu, 14 Dec 2006 14:42:00

Tags ruby, sms, twitter,

Reevoo.com dips its toes into the opensearch water

Posted by Chris Roos Wed, 13 Dec 2006 21:37:00

Tags atom, opensearch, reevoo, search,

Crappy ruby script to download photos from a flickr photoset

Posted by Chris Roos Sun, 10 Dec 2006 16:55:00

Tags crap, curl, flickr, regex, ruby,

del.icio.us as a simple to do list

Posted by Chris Roos Wed, 29 Nov 2006 21:37:00

Tags del.icio.us, todo,

Amazing non-customer service

Posted by Chris Roos Tue, 28 Nov 2006 23:55:00

Tags claimid, open, reevoo, wesabe,

Maybe I need some more REST

Posted by Chris Roos Mon, 27 Nov 2006 22:26:00

Tags rest, rpc, ruby, soap,

Telephone numbers for form submissions

Posted by Chris Roos Tue, 07 Nov 2006 23:04:00

Google AdWords Api Internal Error using the Sandbox

Posted by Chris Roos Wed, 01 Nov 2006 09:01:00

Tags adwords, api,

Connecting to gmail with Ruby (or Connecting to POP3 servers over SSL with Ruby)

Posted by Chris Roos Tue, 24 Oct 2006 22:42:00

Tags gmail, pop, rails, ruby,

Boolean method in Ruby (sibling of Array, Float, Integer and String)

Posted by Chris Roos Fri, 20 Oct 2006 00:19:00

Tags ruby,

Inactive keywords (too high minCpc) when using Google Adwords Api

Posted by Chris Roos Wed, 18 Oct 2006 07:40:00

Tags adwords, api, google,

Some useful assertions, maybe

Posted by Chris Roos Sat, 14 Oct 2006 10:27:00

Tags assertions, ruby, test,

Recording daily spending with a Ruby Dsl

Posted by Chris Roos Fri, 06 Oct 2006 09:19:00

Tags dsl, finance, ruby,

Bye bye feedshow...

Posted by Chris Roos Sat, 30 Sep 2006 06:51:00

The best property search website

Posted by Chris Roos Fri, 22 Sep 2006 11:16:00

Tags fact,

Testing against the (Garbage Collection) Clock, or, Don't create your Test Cases as anonymous classes

Posted by Chris Roos Fri, 22 Sep 2006 10:43:00

Tags ruby, testing,

Unified method_exists method for ruby

Posted by Chris Roos Mon, 18 Sep 2006 22:59:00

Tags ruby,

gDisk - very cheap (free) online storage

Posted by Chris Roos Mon, 18 Sep 2006 20:17:00

What's the time google?

Posted by Chris Roos Mon, 11 Sep 2006 09:17:00

Tags google,

Changing Irb context

Posted by Chris Roos Sat, 09 Sep 2006 12:16:00

Tags irb, ruby,

In memory AR object for testing

Posted by Chris Roos Sat, 09 Sep 2006 12:03:00

Tags rails, testing,

Recommended web host

Posted by Chris Roos Sat, 09 Sep 2006 11:32:00

Tags hosting, praise,

Textmate environment and ruby (again)

Posted by Chris Roos Tue, 22 Aug 2006 23:53:00

Tags environment, ruby, textmate,

Rails leaking some strings in development

Posted by Chris Roos Tue, 22 Aug 2006 10:47:00

Tags memoryleak, rails, ruby,

Feed reading feature requests

Posted by Chris Roos Tue, 22 Aug 2006 08:03:00

Tags apps, feed, reading,

I hope I didn't break rubyforge...

Posted by Chris Roos Mon, 21 Aug 2006 23:30:00

Tags perl, ruby, rubyforge, svm, svn,

I guess that's one way to do it...

Posted by Chris Roos Thu, 17 Aug 2006 08:08:00

Tags database, rails, ruby, testing,

Tickling link_to into submission

Posted by Chris Roos Mon, 14 Aug 2006 23:10:00

Tags plugin, rails, ruby,

Create rails projects using a specific rails gem version

Posted by Chris Roos Mon, 14 Aug 2006 22:06:00

Tags rails, ruby,

New rails weblob

Posted by Chris Roos Sat, 05 Aug 2006 00:47:00

Tags blog, rails,

Helpful error messages when active record objects fail validation (in tests)

Posted by Chris Roos Wed, 02 Aug 2006 13:47:00

Tags activerecord, plugin, rails, validation,

TextMate and "env: ruby: No such file or directory"

Posted by Chris Roos Fri, 28 Jul 2006 23:06:00

Tags ruby, textmate,

Test::Unit abstract test case

Posted by Chris Roos Mon, 17 Jul 2006 09:22:00

Tags ruby, testing, xunit,

Some realisations about testing

Posted by Chris Roos Mon, 17 Jul 2006 09:19:00

Tags agiledox, bdd, rails, rspec, ruby, tdd,

Textmate command to display Active Record column attributes

Posted by Chris Roos Fri, 14 Jul 2006 08:18:00

Tags activerecord, rails, ruby, textmate,

Using in memory Active Record objects with associations for testing

Posted by Chris Roos Wed, 12 Jul 2006 01:23:00

Tags activerecord, learning, rails, ruby,

Ruby hashes with default values

Posted by Chris Roos Wed, 12 Jul 2006 01:17:00

Tags learning, ruby,

Trying to learn

Posted by Chris Roos Wed, 12 Jul 2006 01:15:00

Tags learning, ruby,

Very simple Micro Id Verifier

Posted by Chris Roos Wed, 05 Jul 2006 23:22:00

Tags id, micro, ruby,

Very very lightweight mocking(ish)

Posted by Chris Roos Fri, 30 Jun 2006 12:08:00

Tags mock, mocking, objects, ruby, testing,

Generating a MicroId with Ruby

Posted by Chris Roos Sun, 25 Jun 2006 13:18:00

Tags microid, ruby,

More helpful messages for Active Record validation errors in Rails testing

Posted by Chris Roos Wed, 21 Jun 2006 08:10:00

Tags active, rails, record, ruby, testing, validations,

Rails plugin to utilise Sqlite for testing

Posted by Chris Roos Fri, 02 Jun 2006 16:41:00

Tags rails, ruby, sqlite, testing,

Improving search results

Posted by Chris Roos Sat, 13 May 2006 07:44:00

Tags identity, seo,

Using active record models in rails migrations

Posted by Chris Roos Fri, 12 May 2006 16:32:00

Tags migrations, rails, ruby,

Storing passwords online

Posted by Chris Roos Sat, 06 May 2006 10:05:00

My first reevoo!

Posted by Chris Roos Wed, 08 Mar 2006 09:20:00

Rails table pluralization

Posted by Chris Roos Wed, 08 Mar 2006 07:48:00

Cool google map of the tube network...

Posted by Chris Roos Mon, 06 Mar 2006 09:33:00

Installing Collaboa

Posted by Chris Roos Sun, 05 Mar 2006 11:58:00

ClaimId for managing online identity

Posted by Chris Roos Wed, 01 Mar 2006 08:47:00

Ruby Quiz number 67 (metakoans)

Posted by Chris Roos Wed, 01 Mar 2006 08:40:00

Claiming my blog on technorati

Posted by Chris Roos Mon, 27 Feb 2006 14:40:00

Some Freebsd housekeeping

Posted by