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Re: The technologies that power wishli.st

Learn How to Visualize — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 04:06:06 -0000

This is a great post. I particularly like your suggestion for people to
start by identifying skills and strengths. Thanks for sharing your
insights;

Re: Moving wishli.st to the new Facebook Graph API

Soft Chewable Kamagra — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 02:53:06 -0000

How To Give Great Gifts. While the holidays are supposed to be about giving, admit it, we've all experienced some disappointment after ...

Re: Leaving gifts for Gordon Brown

cranesorigami — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 06:54:30 -0000

The novel documents his trip as one of the first Europeans to circle the
world for pleasure rather than profit, using publicly available
transportation. Gemelli Careri provides rich accounts of seventeenth century civilization outside of Europe. These include details of Persia during the Ottoman Empire, Hindustan during the reign of Aurungzebe, the Chinese Lantern Festival and the Great Wall, as well as the native people of Meso-America. References to his books can be found in other historical publications like the Calcutta Review.

Re: Creating histogram data using SQL

dferrero — Wed, 04 May 2011 17:18:21 -0000

Oli, you are a SQL rock star! I've spent the better part of the day looking for the right sql to produce this. Most examples assume one of the tables has a column with a number value that will be used. My count was derived as was yours. You are a genius!

Re: CodeIgniter and the Amazon API

Codeigniter — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 00:20:48 -0000

Your post is really amazing, i will bookmark it because i can't learn it one times :D

Re: Multi-site CodeIgniter application deployment

unsane1 — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 10:24:28 -0000

FYI, Transmit 4 also has a really nice remote drive mounting toolset: http://panic.com/transmit/

I did something similar using the Zend Framework, but I found it more configurable to set an apache variable for the site environment (production, staging, development, local, etc), and this allowed me to set it at the initial application installation and forget about it. It also allows me to change or have multiple machine/domain names for a particular environment.

Re: Moving wishli.st to the new Facebook Graph API

Gregory — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 11:13:49 -0000

Well written. You've nicely captured the frustration we get with working with crappy ode.

Re: Getting CodeIgniter to play nicely with Facebook

Andrew Jones — Wed, 12 May 2010 07:17:24 -0000

Yeah, the difficulty took me by surprise as well. I'll try to post something in the next few days.

Re: Getting CodeIgniter to play nicely with Facebook

oliwishlist — Wed, 12 May 2010 03:19:03 -0000

@atlantajones Thanks for the compliments, if you'd share how you got up and running with the new API that would be amazing - seems to be harder than we were all expecting. At least they version the wrapper now though.

Re: Getting CodeIgniter to play nicely with Facebook

Andrew Jones — Tue, 11 May 2010 21:46:01 -0000

Good stuff, and generally how I've been rolling our Codeigniter Facebook apps. I did recently just integrate the new Open Graph API. The biggest issue was the authentication, as it required two separate calls to FB, one relying on $_GET params, which if course CI kills. I hope to write up a little post on this soon.

Re: The technologies that power wishli.st

DHS — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 09:03:21 -0000

No problem Phil. Glad you find it interesting!

Re: The technologies that power wishli.st

Phil Lindsay — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 08:25:38 -0000

Great write up. Thanks for sharing guys :)

Re: The technologies that power wishli.st

DHS — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 10:50:14 -0000

Thanks SiM - lots more to come!

Re: The technologies that power wishli.st

SiM — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 10:38:19 -0000

Good show and I should expect more is coming...

Re: The technologies that power wishli.st

oliwishlist — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 06:18:32 -0000

Our pleasure. Really dev gold coming as soon as things calm down a bit, like the actual deployment scripts etc.

Re: The technologies that power wishli.st

James Mills — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 05:36:11 -0000

Nice blog post... thanks!

Re: 7 Steps to Gift Nirvana

DHS — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 17:29:11 -0000

Thanks for sharing, Pez! Gifts that keep on giving really are awesome - gardening gifts for mums often fit into this category.

My Little Pony is pretty low on the scale. Very decent of you to listen to the cassette though! I would have liked to see the thank you letter for that ;)

I wonder if there's an antidote to Secret Santa that could raise the gift level up from level 4...

Re: 7 Steps to Gift Nirvana

Pez — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 06:38:40 -0000

I've had a couple of halcyon gifts before. Last birthday I got a year's membership to the Gourmet Society (considering it can be used for 25% off at Oddbins too, this really is a gift which keeps on giving) and a tagine. Both completely unexpected, and both perfect choices.

I've had generic gifts before too, and the duplicate generic. I find Secret Santas are the worst culprits for this... Can't think of a really bad one yet - except a My Little Pony I got when I was seven. Can't remember who that came from. It had a story on cassette with it too, which I listened to - it was only polite.