Author Archives: simon

OS X for the Coding. Linux for deploying.

Posted on January 11, 2012 by simon

I just came across an excellent article on setting up Xcode, and a generally mac environment to point at an SSHFS disk within a VMWare Fusion box. All this was to the end of using a nice interface to code … Continue reading →

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Cloud security and management portals

Posted on December 2, 2011 by simon

There’s a lot of talk these days about cloud security. The usual, sensible, and frankly right answer is, don’t be silly. With the right combination of VLANs firewalls, proper machine isolation in the hypervisor, and all the normal sort of … Continue reading →

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Physical security matters!

Posted on October 27, 2011 by simon

Here is an account of some interesting experiments in using very sensitive microphones, or voltage meters to crack RSA. So from this, it would be perfectly possible to build a plug in device which stole anything, even anything encrypted with … Continue reading →

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Advice for AJAX programmers, the partners they love, and the browser they hate

Posted on October 26, 2011 by simon

I just came across this fantastic article, which has a number of things to contribute. Firstly, how to get that crock-of-browser IE to work. Secondly, it has some lovely advice for partners on how to deal with us web developers … Continue reading →

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How I learned to let go, and got back on the rails

Posted on June 5, 2011 by simon

Many many years ago I produce a website in Rails. It was OK. I certainly didn’t totally hate it. That was back in the very early days of Rails 1. The website did ticketing for a one off event and … Continue reading →

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Ruby on Rails and ExtJS 4 Data Model

Posted on June 2, 2011 by simon

I’ve been playing around a lot with rails 3 recently, and since I’ve spent many years working with the ExtJS platform from Sencha, and spend most of my working day with it, I thought it was about time I looked … Continue reading →

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Rails conf 2011

Posted on May 17, 2011 by simon

Streaming it live is great. Quite impressed at how well I can watch a conference in Baltimore from the corner of a desk in London and actually feel like its working. There does seem to be a lot of quotation … Continue reading →

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Quick PhoneGap build gotcha

Posted on March 25, 2011 by simon

I will be blogging a lot more about mobile development it seems, having now ended up becoming both an overnight iOS and Android developer. Loving both platforms, but also for the simple stuff, loving PhoneGap, the sort of html and … Continue reading →

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Cambridge Startup Weekend Winners

Posted on March 13, 2011 by simon

So we’ve finally made it to the end of an intense weekend. There were some absolutely fantastic ideas, and some excellent presentations at the end of it all. With many very deserving winners, in all sorts of categories, I’m very … Continue reading →

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Cambridge Startup Weekend Pitching Begins

Posted on March 10, 2011 by simon

I’ve blogged before about the Cambridge Startup Weekend, and am pleased to see that the organisers have done a fantastic PR job and sold out completely. One of the most interested pieces of social PR work I say in the … Continue reading →

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