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I don’t usually go for all this campaigning stuff, but I got a bit swept up in the phone hacking hysteria. From: Speak Out Date: 7 July 2011 23:27:53 GMT+01:00 To: thom@thom.org.uk Subject: Speak Out: Thanks for emailing your MP … Continue reading →

Lucene.Net sometimes gets on my tits. I shouldn’t say that cos we’ve got one really cool site that uses it, and we’re helping build another (hopefully cool) site with it. But it’s one of the .NET ports of a Java … Continue reading →

Would be a great name for a testicular cancer support group.

Can I somehow convince Ruby to let me use const_missing or method_missing to catch names like 2d20? Not that I want to pile one layer of geekiness upon another, but I’d like to create a nice little DSL for dice … Continue reading →

Does anyone know of a library that provides a numeric class with a good deal of precision and which supports very large numbers? I’m getting an awful lot of infinities out of the standard double type, but really want the … Continue reading →

I like TiVo, pizza and a nice sit down. If you, too, want to edge towards an early grave in style, you should try Perfect Cuisine. They offer: An 0800 number for delivery orders. Payment by debit or credit card … Continue reading →

One of the nice things about TDD is that you never hear people say things like: It pretty much does what it looks like it probably ought to do. Unless someone’s having a really bad day…

…PHP does something stupid. Yesterday, I was all excited with my new code to group a bunch of stuff together. Then I tried to merge together some arrays with objects in them, and came up against this bug. If you … Continue reading →

PHP’s had array_chunk for a while, which splits an array into groups of a certain size. The Ruby equivalent is each_slice from Enumerator, recently joined by some Rails goodies in the form of Enumerable#group_by and Array#in_groups_of. in_groups_of is just a … Continue reading →