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Works in Progress

I'm working on this right now. I am. I promise.

25 Sep, 2011

HTML5 Template

[W0007] -- Develop a solid webpage template using HTML5 and CSS stylesheets, that will work well in most cirumstances, i.e. mobile devices, small screen, wide screens, old browsers etc.

Category: business | Status: InProgress

21 Sep, 2011

Zero.Nine

http://zeropointnine.co.uk/

[W0006] I'm in the process of updating this website. The front end is getting a re-design and I'm switching over to HTML5. Trying to improve the back end, to integrate the various sections and make it easier to update.

Category: Website | Status: InProgress

01 Jul, 2011

Edinburgh & Lothian Council on Alcohol

[W0005] I'll be helping a local charity get their website up and running. Edinburgh & Lothian Council on Alcohol are a support group for families with problems with Alcohol addiction. They want a website set up that they can modify and maintain (therefore a CMS and some training).

Category: website | Status: InProgress

Finished

Or at least pretty close to being finished. I have plans to improve all of this stuff, but have other things to do (see above). Plus it is sunny outside and I don't want to be stuck in a darkened room with only GEdit and Banshee for company. I'll get to it later.

02 Mar, 2011

How Much?

http://zeropointnine.co.uk/ran_drinks

[W0004] Another learning project. This time I looked at integrating some simple Javascript/Ajax, with CakePHP to create a wee app to calculate the number of units in a set of drinks.

Category: project | Status: Live

07 May, 2010

Emma Duff French Polishing

http://emmadfrenchpolishing.co.uk/

[W0003] Website for Emma's French Polishing and furniture restoration business. Mainly uses Wordpress as a simple CMS and the NextGEN Gallery plugin to manage the picture gallery.

Category: website | Status: Live

31 Jan, 2010

Forever Listing

http://zeropointnine.co.uk/fl_listings

[W0002] A basic gig listing site. Just a project I put together as to learn a bit more about CakePHP and web applications.

Category: project | Status: Live

06 Jan, 2009

Hooverville

http://hooverville.co.uk/

[W0001] Music Blog by Sunny Govan's most popular son, Ah Fong. I'm just providing the hosting in return for beer and racing tips, don't blame me for the questionable language and below the belt humour.

Category: website | Status: Live

Feed The Bear

There are lots of thinks and stuff and information across in internet that I find interesting. I try to catalogue, bookmark and link to the good stuff on Tumblr and Instapaper and the like. It keeps me busy.

27 Jan, 2012

This looks awesome

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This looks

awesome

26 Jan, 2012

Lordy! My speakers just can’t do this justice. Oh for a...

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Lordy! My speakers just can’t do this justice. Oh for a proper Hi Fi.

flamgirlant:

Boyhood - “Heat”

Damn, do I love me some Canadian garage rock.

Listen to the full Boyhood EP on bandcamp.

(via: weird canada)

25 Jan, 2012

Harry Maugans » Voltaire’s Candide

My Instapaper General Archive | Link

Voltaire constructed the novella “Candide” partially for the purpose of entertainment, but mostly to satirize the fallacy of Gottfried William von Leibniz’s theory of optimism. Throughout the course of his saga, Voltaire juxtaposes the raw, unrepressed optimism of one character in the story with exaggerated real-world adventures of pessimism and gloom. From gruesome war to disease, sedition, and deceit, Voltaire misses none of the bad in the “best of all possible worlds”.

25 Jan, 2012

Google is FUBAR | ExtremeTech

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Starting in March, your search and surf habits across all of Google’s products will be combined to form the mother of all behavioral profiles.

24 Jan, 2012

Unqualified Reservations: The kiss: "Stalin was feeling extremely gay"

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23 Jan, 2012

Photo

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17 Jan, 2012

How I Program Stuff - Randall Degges

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I love programming. I can truly say that of all the things I enjoy, I enjoy programming the most. There’s nothing quite like the feeling you get when you create something. Writing code is a lot like building your own little universe.

17 Jan, 2012

A List Apart: Articles: A Pixel Identity Crisis

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A pixel is not a pixel.

16 Jan, 2012

A List Apart: Articles: Fluid Grids

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Fluid layouts are an undervalued commodity in web design. They put control of our designs firmly in the hands of our users and their browsing habits. They’ve also utterly failed to seize the imagination of web designers.

12 Jan, 2012

What is a Turing Machine?

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Now we come to the masterstroke of Turing machine theory – the Universal Turing machine. Suppose you have a Turing machine that computes something. It consists of a finite state machine, an initial state and an initialised tape.These three things completely define the Turing machine.

11 Jan, 2012

A List Apart: Articles: CSS Floats 101

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The float property is a valuable and powerful asset to any web designer/developer working with HTML and CSS. Tragically, it can also cause frustration and confusion if you don’t fully understand how it works. Also, in the past, it’s been linked to some pretty nasty browser bugs so it’s normal to get nervous about using the float property in your CSS rule sets. Let’s calm those nerves and ease that frustration. I’ll show you exactly what the float property does to your elements and how incredibly useful it can be once you master it.

11 Jan, 2012

A List Apart: Articles: CSS Positioning 101

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If you’re a front end developer or a designer who likes to code, CSS-based layouts are at the very core of your work. In what might be a refresher for some, or even an “a-ha!” for others, let’s look at the CSS position property to see how we can use it to create standards-compliant, table-free CSS layouts.

13 Nov, 2011

A Storm of Swords (vol 2), by George R. R. Martin

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A Storm of Swords volume 2: Blood and Gold

Fourth (or the third) book in A Song of Ice and Fire series.Volume 2 of A Storm of Swords, called Blood and Gold.

And holy fuck, shit got serious. This one could have been sub-title ‘Everyone Dies’.

13 Nov, 2011

A Storm of Swords (vol 1), by George R. R. Martin

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A Storm of Sword Volume 1: Steel and Snow

(2000)

Third instalment in the Song of Ice and Fire fantasy series. The book turned out to be two long, so it was split into two volumes (in the UK at least). This was volume 1, Steel and Snow.

13 Nov, 2011

A Game of Thrones, by George R. R. Martin

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A Game of Thrones

(1996)

A Game of Thrones was on the telly recently. So I thought I would give the book a go. The first book in the series A Song of Ice and Fire (currently up to five books), Thrones introduces the feudal empire of Westeros, made up of the Seven Kingdoms. This is fantasy on a epic scale, but the sorcery and fantastic elements, that you come to expect, are actually kept to a minimum, and politics and social relationships are more

13 Nov, 2011

The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde

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The Picture of Dorian Gray

(1890)

The Picture of Dorian Gray is the only thing I’ve read by Wilde, which, I guess isn’t surprising as it is his only novel (I didn’t realise that The Importance of Being Earnest was actually a play). Highly entertaining faustian melodrama. The language is over the top, but that’s what I was expecting.

Freely available from Project Gutenberg

31 Oct, 2011

9. Classes — Python v2.7.2 documentation

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31 Oct, 2011

Allen Holub's UML Reference Card

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18 Oct, 2011

Fastest way to uniqify a list in Python

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I wrote a couple of alternative implementations and did a quick benchmark loop on the various implementations to find out which way was the fastest. (I haven’t looked at memory usage). The slowest function was 78 times slower than the fastest function.

“Social software is the experimental wing of political philosophy, a discipline that doesn't realize it has an experimental wing. We are literally encoding the principles of freedom of speech and freedom of expression in our tools.”

— Clay Shirky

About This Site

Hello! I am Bruce. This is my website.

I want to build things.

I make web sites and applications for fun and I help individuals and small companies develop their own web sites.

I like to use Free, Open Source applications. I like to follow web standards. I like things that are simple and easy to use.