When in RO.ME
2011-05-15 11:23:00Having problems running Google’s new Chrome Experiment - RO.ME - in Chrome because you’re told your graphics card does not support WebGL, even though you know it does? Try running Chrome from the command line with the switch: —ignore-gpu-blacklist e.g.chrome —ignore-gpu-blacklist (Ubuntu Linux)chrome.exe —ignore-gpu-blacklist (Windows) It seems in the latest versions of Chrome, WebGL has been limited to graphics cards that have been explicitly tested to work, but this switch skip...
Using cron & curl to monitor the status of your site
2011-01-24 20:56:00I wanted a method of automatically checking every so often if a site was up and running and came up with the following method that uses cron to run curl on an arbitrary page on the website. For example curl http://www.tuskdesign.com Now in its default behaviour this will output the content of the page (i.e. the html) to standard out, or if there is an error to standard error. In both cases this is usually the terminal if you are using curl from the command line, or if it is in your cront...
un-Eventful API
2010-05-13 19:43:00Imagine this… …You are a website that enables users to find, share and promote events throughout the world. A useful service indeed but you obviously depend on a large user base to drive and monetise your site - lots of people uploading new events, and lots of people clicking on your affiliate ticket links so you can earn some well deserved cash. So you make your website free and easy to use - so far so un-Eventful. Let’s go a step further and add an API that is ‘is built upon a unique, ...
Another interesting infographic showing ...
2010-05-13 18:53:48Another interesting infographic showing how Facebook’s default privacy settings have changed (for the worse) over time. I wonder how many every-day users know (or care?) how much of their life they are exposing to the wider world?