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By default Ubuntu doesn’t preserve your iptable rules between restarts. You could create an init script, or you could just run the following command: sudo apt-get install iptables-persistent

After a few tedious hours of trying to install memcached for Mamp on my 10.6.8 based Mac, I finally found a solution. This has been sourced from a number of places and I hold no warrant for it working for you. This has, however worked for me, so thought i’d post a quick how to. [...]

Just a quick blog post to promote HydraHack, organised by Tom Martin (also of @383project fame). HydraHack is a monthly meetup for web developers in Birmingham, who enjoy getting together and making things. If you’re Birmingham based, you should pop along, and if nothing else say hi!

It’s fair to say that we love a bit of Beanstalk (affiliate link, gets you 10% off) at @383project. I’ve built tools to help you integrate with Geckoboard, display Growl notifications of your commits and a webapp for deploying and checking your repos. Fellow dev Andy Yates has gone way further and built a native iOS [...]

CodeBox by Vadim Shpakovski was one of the first apps that I downloaded from the new Mac App Store. The app features tagging and smart groups which allow you to use a combination of syntax mode and tags to keep your code organised. It’s the perfect app for organising and storing your code snippets, and now [...]

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 we work. In this case, it was getting ServerDensity and custom stats to be displayed [...]

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 and their radio stations; BRMB, Beacon, Wyvern and Mercia. The launch process started at 10am [...]

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 20 million server requests this year. Needless to say, this is quite a stressfull time [...]

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 can be used for almost any social network or RSS feed. You may be thinking [...]

Recently I have been involved in a number of projects using PayPal as a payment gateway. The implementations ranged from the basic buy now buttons, to full blown use of the API to create a recurring based platform for a web app. I decided to release my library for you all to use within your [...]