Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Four in one shot

Four in one shot
Just imagine what would have happened had I not taken a minor detour to see someone on the way in to work. I wouldn't have walked past the entrance to the N1 shopping centre at Angel, so I wouldn't have seen the cordoned-off area outside Lloyds, or half-heard anyone muttering about whether it was anything to do with the bank itself, let alone rolled I'm sure entirely unjustified thoughts around in my head as to whether there'd have been quite so many cars and vans rushed to the scene had it not been a repository of capital at issue, or indeed whether anyone seriously thinks of Lloyds as partly TSB these days, and I'd certainly never have been able to stroll casually past four somewhat preoccupied police officers with my camera-phone pointing straight at them and catch 'em all in one go. Which would have been a shame.

Upper Street, Angel, Islington, London

Monday, October 12, 2009

I like Unicorn because it's Unix

Unicorn is a "mostly pure-Ruby HTTP backend" using's Mongrel's HTTP parser but using a Unix prefork model to service requests. Interesting piece on how the Unix layer can doing the heavy lifting, via syscalls from Ruby.

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Indie Software Security: A ~12 Step Program

Every autumn, John “Wolf” Rentzsch holds an indie software development conference for Apple developers in Chicago called C4. It’s really excellent. I’d recommend you attend, but it’s become one of those things that sells out the day he announces the tickets. We don’t get to go this year. But last year, we did get to go. Because we’re local, Rentzsch asked us to get up on stage and give a talk…
My tech talk on Tornado (video and slides)

I gave a tech talk on Tornado yesterday evening at Facebook's offices. My slides and a video of the talk are below. If you have any questions, feel free to comment below, or join the Tornado discussion group to chat with other Tornado developers.

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Crash scene

Crash scene
Looked like an incident with a scooter.

City Road, Old Street, London

Saturday, October 3, 2009

Terrible Yellow Eyes: Wild chocolate!

Terrible Yellow Eyes: Wild chocolate!
Image originally ffffound at www.terribleyelloweyes.com.
Leaning in

Leaning in
Parked up outside Bar Music Hall apparently merely monitoring the crowd of smokers hanging around on the pavement, this chap espied through a bus window lent a lackadaisical air to the evening's entertainment.

Curtain Road, Shoreditch, London