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Reverse SEO

By dom | Published: 2012-01-11

Although it’s a truism and/or cliché to say that the first rule of SEO is to write good content, it’s probably also been said somewhere, at least once – I haven’t searched for it so I don’t know – that thinking about SEO while writing your good content makes it even better. By which I [...]

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Permissions setup for a Debian web host

By dom | Published: 2012-01-09

This is another of those “note-to-self” posts, where I detail how I’m setting something up so that I can refer back to it, or so I can point someone else to it. As if often the case, some of this may be Debian-specific… There are different ways of approaching the task of setting the permissions [...]

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MacBook DVD swap-out

By dom | Published: 2011-11-25

When I got my SSD installed in my MacBook, I swapped out the (defective) DVD for a caddy from Mac:Upgrades to house the original boot drive. This was completely unrecognised, but I didn’t have time to worry about it, so put the old boot disk in an external FW400 case and used the data from [...]

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Unlocking T-Mobile Wireless Pointer (UK)

By dom | Published: 2011-11-23

While I was in the UK, I bought a T-Mobile Wireless Pointer (which is quite a daft name for their Huawei E583C). The nicest thing about this, I think is the display that actually lets you know what’s going on without deciphering blinking LEDs of various colours. You can see signal strength, 3G confirmation, how [...]

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Solid State Stress Reliever

By dom | Published: 2011-11-11

I’d read a few blog posts here and there about how swapping your old MacBook’s hard drive for an SSD made amazing improvements, so I decided to give that a go. My 2006 MacBook is definitely creaking, but I don’t work mobile that much, and I can usually use the iPad for whatever I need [...]

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A web development workflow

By dom | Published: 2011-11-09

[Update: added illustration of overview.] I originally called this post “My web development workflow” but although it is my workflow, the idea of the article was as a suggestion for one possible methodology for the kind of development with which I’m usually involved. Others I’ve worked with, both in the past and on an ongoing [...]

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App Store not updating apps?

By dom | Published: 2011-11-05

Mac App Store not updating your apps with “Please login to the account you purchased with” type errors? The simplest fix seems to be to just delete the app from your Applications folder. Refresh the Purchased page on the Mac App Store and now instead of Update, its button says “Install” (well, on mine it [...]

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Drop the BOM

By dom | Published: 2011-11-03

[Update 2011-12-20-120457: see end of post] I sometimes get issues with files that come in from another source, that have the BOM – usually from some other web developer who’s using Windows. It’s not a massive issue, but often introduces space that you can’t see except in the browser where it can break some designs. [...]

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Something I always forget when setting up the post-receive hook for a new git repo

By dom | Published: 2011-10-29

Catchy title for a blog post, huh? Anyway, something I always (or almost always) forget to do every time when I set up a new git repo and set up the hook to send everyone an email on each git push is to edit description so the first email always starts “UNNAMED PROJECT” which drives [...]

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Amazon Web Services

By dom | Published: 2011-10-11

I’m suddenly working with a few different AWS setups. I definitely like the flexibility and sheer scope of it. But that’s where its biggest problem comes from: the learning curve is considerable, just based on the massive number of services Amazon offer in AWS. Once up the curve, it’s actually all very simple to work [...]

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