For the last 5 days I’ve been in Banff (Canada) at the nextMEDIA festival – an event for “New Media” practitioners and those would would like to be. This event very deliberately intersects with the beginning of the Banff TV Festival, one of the world’s largest television festivals, where producers get together with distributors andContinue reading “Whoops”
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AFI Digital Content Lab
Okay dear readers, get ready for this blog to get Imperially Abstract on your a$$, because Content is King! I have officially been selected as a mentor for the American Film Institute’s Digital Content Lab, which means being part of the best prototype digital entertainment projects the US of A has to offer. This, I’mContinue reading “AFI Digital Content Lab”
Running Nginx with Concrete5
I’ve been sitting here all day bashing my head against one simple problem – getting Concrete5 working behind Nginx. Concrete5 is a beautiful, simple php-based CMS – a loud answer to the complexity of Joomla and Drupal, but of course missing some of the power too. It’s perfect for web sites that aren’t managed byContinue reading “Running Nginx with Concrete5”
Dick Cheney playing noose-dodger
Dick Cheney is hard to avoid in the US media right now. His public reasoning is that he wishes to defend the Bush record and speak out against Obama’s policies, which are “making the country less safe”. I have my own theory (of course). Dick Cheney wishes to galvanise public opinion and pull just enoughContinue reading “Dick Cheney playing noose-dodger”
The morality of flying
Caveat: We’re one bottle of wine into a two-bottle evening. I was chatting to a really wonderful friend-of-a-friend tonight. She runs a really cool-sounding consultancy that does corporate psychology mixed with reducing a company’s environmental footprint. Searching for the ultimate win-win of happy people, happy planet I guess. I mentioned my upcoming trip to theContinue reading “The morality of flying”
A Little Light Relief
… from the odd nerdy abstract rants on topics I know nothing about. Punch ’em in the Dick!
Why Banks Suck
This morning around 10am I received a call from a really nice-sounding guy at the Commonwealth Bank, politely requesting that I transfer some money onto my credit card because I missed my monthly payment. It’s ok – I have the money and will transfer it shortly. But as I was sitting on the train later,Continue reading “Why Banks Suck”
Apache Wicket on Google App Engine for Java
Holy smokes, that was easy. I’ve got a basic Wicket app running on Google App Engine in under 2 minutes. 3 small traps for the unwary. First of all, you need to enable sessions in your appengine config file. <sessions-enabled>true</sessions-enabled> <sessions-enabled>true</sessions-enabled> Secondly, add the following line into your WebApplication’s init() method: @Override protected void init()Continue reading “Apache Wicket on Google App Engine for Java”
Building Google App Engine Java projects with Maven2
Ok, so I had a whole bunch of work to do today and I’ve just thrown it out the window: Google has unleashed Java support for Google App Engine. This is huge news. The implementation is solid (it does its best, within the restrictions of Google’s architecture, to support standards and avoid architectural lock-in). Let’sContinue reading “Building Google App Engine Java projects with Maven2”
Dan and Mia’s Guide to the Comedy Festival
Last year, when I was working at Sputnik, I wrote a short run-down of which shows to see and why (I’ve been in and out of the comedy industry for a few years). People liked it, so here it is again for 2009.