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Works in Progress

I'm working on this right now. I am. I promise.

25 Sep, 2011

HTML5 Template

[W0007] -- Develop a solid webpage template using HTML5 and CSS stylesheets, that will work well in most cirumstances, i.e. mobile devices, small screen, wide screens, old browsers etc.

Category: business | Status: InProgress

21 Sep, 2011

Zero.Nine

http://zeropointnine.co.uk/

[W0006] I'm in the process of updating this website. The front end is getting a re-design and I'm switching over to HTML5. Trying to improve the back end, to integrate the various sections and make it easier to update.

Category: Website | Status: InProgress

01 Jul, 2011

Edinburgh & Lothian Council on Alcohol

[W0005] I'll be helping a local charity get their website up and running. Edinburgh & Lothian Council on Alcohol are a support group for families with problems with Alcohol addiction. They want a website set up that they can modify and maintain (therefore a CMS and some training).

Category: website | Status: InProgress

Finished

Or at least pretty close to being finished. I have plans to improve all of this stuff, but have other things to do (see above). Plus it is sunny outside and I don't want to be stuck in a darkened room with only GEdit and Banshee for company. I'll get to it later.

02 Mar, 2011

How Much?

http://zeropointnine.co.uk/ran_drinks

[W0004] Another learning project. This time I looked at integrating some simple Javascript/Ajax, with CakePHP to create a wee app to calculate the number of units in a set of drinks.

Category: project | Status: Live

07 May, 2010

Emma Duff French Polishing

http://emmadfrenchpolishing.co.uk/

[W0003] Website for Emma's French Polishing and furniture restoration business. Mainly uses Wordpress as a simple CMS and the NextGEN Gallery plugin to manage the picture gallery.

Category: website | Status: Live

31 Jan, 2010

Forever Listing

http://zeropointnine.co.uk/fl_listings

[W0002] A basic gig listing site. Just a project I put together as to learn a bit more about CakePHP and web applications.

Category: project | Status: Live

06 Jan, 2009

Hooverville

http://hooverville.co.uk/

[W0001] Music Blog by Sunny Govan's most popular son, Ah Fong. I'm just providing the hosting in return for beer and racing tips, don't blame me for the questionable language and below the belt humour.

Category: website | Status: Live

Feed The Bear

There are lots of thinks and stuff and information across in internet that I find interesting. I try to catalogue, bookmark and link to the good stuff on Tumblr and Instapaper and the like. It keeps me busy.

14 May, 2012

American Woman, by Guess Who

My Tumblr Blog | Link



American Woman, by Guess Who

09 May, 2012

A Pastafarian in the US Army. Drill Sergeant: “Private...

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A Pastafarian in the US Army.

Drill Sergeant: “Private Griffith – is that some contraband?”

Me: “No, Drill Sergeant. It’s my holy book.“

Drill Sergeant: “Give that to me…” Yoink! “Flying Spaghetti Monster!? What the fuck?”

Me: ”I’m a Pastafarian, Drill Sergeant.”

Drill Sergeant: “Are you fucking with me? Are you fucking with me at 0600, Private Griffith? Before I even get some goddamned breakfast?” Me: “No, Drill Sergeant.”

Drill Sergeant: “Flying Spaghetti Monster!? I don’t fucking believe it!!!”

Me: “I believe it, Drill Sergeant.”

Drill Sergeant: “What the hell is wrong with you, warrior?”

Me: “Drill Sergeant, I’m afraid I can’t really talk to you about this any further unless I’m in my religious clothing. I need to be in full pirate regalia, or at the very least wearing an eye patch.”

09 May, 2012

In The Dumps

My Tumblr Blog | Link

In The Dumps:

From Neil Gaiman: “When I heard this morning that Maurice Sendak had died, I asked the New Yorker over Twitter if they could unlock a two page comic: art spiegelman and Maurice Sendak in conversation in 1993, drawn by both of them. They did, and I am grateful to them.”

Beautiful little comic.

09 May, 2012

"An object shall not be improperly used before its lifetime begins or after its lifetime ends."

My Tumblr Blog | Link

“An object shall not be improperly used before its lifetime begins or after its lifetime ends.”

- Lockheed Joint Strike Fighter C++ Coding Standards (via jstn)

26 Apr, 2012

HOWTO Use Python in the web — Python v2.7.3 documentation

My Instapaper Web Archive | Link

22 Mar, 2012

How to Validate Forms in both sides using PHP and jQuery | yensdesign - Tutorials, Web Design and Coding

My Instapaper Web Archive | Link

How to validate forms in server side using PHP. In this tutorial we will make use of PHP and jQuery to validate all fields in both sides: Client side: Using javascript with jQuery and Server side: Using PHP. We will make use of regular expressions and if you don't know about them, you will notice very soon their power.

21 Mar, 2012

defmacro - Functional Programming For The Rest of Us

My Instapaper Programming Archive | Link

So what is FP? How did it come about? Is it edible? If it's as useful as its advocates claim, why isn't it being used more often in the industry? Why is it that only people with PhDs tend to use it? Most importantly, why is it so damn hard to learn? What is all this closure, continuation, currying, lazy evaluation and no side effects business? How can it be used in projects that don't involve a university? Why does it seem to be so different from everything good, and holy, and dear to our imperative hearts? We'll clear this up very soon. Let's start with explaining the reasons for the huge gap between the real world and academic articles. The answer is as easy as taking a walk in the park.

20 Mar, 2012

Regular Expression HOWTO — Python v2.7.2 documentation

My Instapaper Programming Archive | Link

This document is an introductory tutorial to using regular expressions in Python with the re module. It provides a gentler introduction than the corresponding section in the Library Reference.

20 Mar, 2012

The Markdown Mark by Dustin Curtis

My Instapaper General Archive | Link

27 Feb, 2012

The Boy Who Played With Fusion

My Instapaper General Archive | Link

This is before Taylor would transform the family’s garage into a mysterious, glow-in-the-dark cache of rocks and metals and liquids with unimaginable powers. Before he would conceive, in a series of unlikely epiphanies, new ways to use neutrons to confront some of the biggest challenges of our time: cancer and nuclear terrorism. Before he would build a reactor that could hurl atoms together in a 500-million-degree plasma core—becoming, at 14, the youngest individual on Earth to achieve nuclear fusion.

27 Feb, 2012

Białowieża Forest (Idle Words)

My Instapaper General Archive | Link

One August morning in 2010 I woke up before dawn to go bushwhacking near the Belarussian border. My guide, a friendly Polish geography teacher named Romek, was waiting outside to take me into one of the last patches of primeval wilderness in Europe, Białowieża Forest.

27 Feb, 2012

Woz on Creativity: Work Alone | Brain Pickings

My Instapaper General Archive | Link

"I’m going to give you some advice that might be hard to take. That advice is: Work alone… Not on a committee. Not on a team."

09 Feb, 2012

Gravity | Peter's Website

My Instapaper Programming Archive | Link

Python tutorial where we: Create a function to add vectors, Create a vector to represent gravity and Add drag and elasticity.

07 Feb, 2012

Version Control for Designers

My Instapaper Programming Archive | Link

Version control, alternately known as revision control or source code management, is a system that maintains versions of files at progressive stages of development. The version control system is similar in theory to backing up your files, but smarter. Every file in the system has a full history of changes, and can easily be restored to any version in its history.

17 Jan, 2012

A List Apart: Articles: A Pixel Identity Crisis

My Instapaper Web Archive | Link

A pixel is not a pixel.

16 Jan, 2012

A List Apart: Articles: Fluid Grids

My Instapaper Web Archive | Link

Fluid layouts are an undervalued commodity in web design. They put control of our designs firmly in the hands of our users and their browsing habits. They’ve also utterly failed to seize the imagination of web designers.

“Social software is the experimental wing of political philosophy, a discipline that doesn't realize it has an experimental wing. We are literally encoding the principles of freedom of speech and freedom of expression in our tools.”

— Clay Shirky

About This Site

Hello! I am Bruce. This is my website.

I want to build things.

I make web sites and applications for fun and I help individuals and small companies develop their own web sites.

I like to use Free, Open Source applications. I like to follow web standards. I like things that are simple and easy to use.