Beanstalk Growl Notifications

by leon on November 10, 2010

In this post, i’ll talk about how I managed to get updates from Beanstalk to my desktop, and why this was important. My previous post has been about mashing 3rd party apps together in order to streamline and improve how (…)

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Geckoboard and ServerDensity Take 2

by leon on November 9, 2010

So, last week I wrote a post about how we were using Geckoboard to monitor the launch of a set of sites – after a successful launch I can now reveal that those sites were for the Orion Media Group (…)

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Geckoboard and ServerDensity getting it on!

by leon on October 24, 2010

This is a quick post to show you something that I knocked together in a few hours today – ServerDensity stats within Geckoboard. At work we’re just about to push a set of sites live that combined have served some (…)

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Time for a new web app?

by leon on August 15, 2010

Sometimes it’s the simple ideas that prove to be the best. A month or two ago, I got an invoice for a hosting package I set up two years ago for flCodr (which is no longer being developed). It came (…)

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iPad and Three MiFi

by leon on June 13, 2010

If you’re in two minds whether to get an iPad – don’t be! The only question you really need to answer is 3G or not 3G. I opted for the non 3G version – my logic was this: The iPad (…)

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First post from my iPad

by leon on May 29, 2010

If you already follow me on Twitter you will already know that I am now the proud father of Apple’s latest device. Like most of the purchases I make from Apple, this was one of want rather than need. However (…)

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Testing a custom URL shortener

by leon on May 2, 2010

Testing a custom url shortener

Spotify profile widget

by leon on April 27, 2010

So @spotify have released a new version of their desktop based application that adds a stack of social features. One of these is a user profile which displays your playlists, aswell as your top played artists and tracks. I created (…)

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Downloadr – jQuery file download plugin

by leon on April 8, 2010

Downloadr aims to solve the age old problem of downloading files from your website. On countless occasions, I have been asked – “Why does the PDF open in my browser rather than download?” and my answer has always been – (…)

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Display your FourSquare updates on your website

by leon on April 6, 2010

I recently made a few small changes to my personal website, including the addition of my most recent FourSquare check in’s. This post is a quick write up to show you how I did it for FourSquare, but this technique (…)

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