Pondering on a Twitter that I posted recently, it had me think; why does it take exponential effort and time to get ‘simple’ stuff completed on big sites such as Yahoo!. Looking around London and most other cities, skyscrapers are everywhere, out of necessity, due to the race for space. So the end result for [...]
Hacker, what’s in a name hey? Yahoo! and the web development community at large understands a hacker to be someone that has an expressed interest in solving problems through innovative use of tools at their disposal. On 12th September Yahoo! opened their Sunnyvale, California offices to a group of around 250 developers, or hackers, if [...]
On Monday (27 July 08) Moneyio (Money In & Out) was released. Moneyio is the latest incarnation of my previous project Salary Calculator. Moneyio will be organically developed to include new relevant features with a strict focus on surfacing information on your money. The overall objective is to offer a best in class web based [...]
Out of necessity the Salary Calculator was devised. I required a tool to give me a breakdown of an annual salary (prior to taxes/deductions and after) into chronological iterations (per year, month, day, hour). The Salary Calculator will be updated with leaner markup and a new theme very soon. Further iterations will include custom deductions [...]
Firstly I will start with why to not use diff. I am not suggesting a replacement, I have simply found that Vim offers a much better interface, that is available on most (*nix based) server environments for comparing and merging files side by side. Getting started vim -d file_original.txt file_new.txt Your tool of choice here [...]
Read the article about my Yahoo! APIs presentation at METU University in Ankara, Turkey on the Yahoo! Developer Network blog.
This came about as i wanted to replace just a few lines of text in vi. Work out what range of lines to select :set number Find the lines you wish to modify 35 #Hosts per intl 36 192.168.0.22 uk.dev.site.com 37 192.168.0.22 de.dev.site.com 38 192.168.0.22 es.dev.site.com 39 192.168.1.92 it.dev.site.com 40 192.168.0.21 fr.dev.site.com Do the replacement [...]
It all begins when i became somewhat frustrated when my Mac Book Pro became increasingly unstable. If it was not alt-tabbing or trivial operations including opening new applications, everything and anything seemed to lock up my machine, almost as if MS Windows had somehow taken over Unix in an evil way. I persevered with this [...]