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Google Help Milestone, 1000 Answers

A couple of months ago I decided to put my search engine knowledge to the test and started answering questions in the Google Webmasters Help forum. In that time, I’ve now answered 1000 different questions from people of all different … Continue reading

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Firefox Software Upgrade Process Inefficient

I’m using Firefox for the first time on my notebook in quite some time and I noticed that it was downloading an update. Curiously, I checked to see what version I was currently running and it was 3.0.10 and I … Continue reading

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YouTube Subscriptions & Unexpected Notification Behaviour

I use the YouTube subscription feature to try and keep on top of a swarm of excellent video content being provided through YouTube. In my account settings, under the Email Options section I have all of the default options selected … Continue reading

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Django Internationalisation (i18n) Statistics

The Python web framework Django supports internationalistaion (i18n) for nearly 30 different languages already. While reviewing the changesets flowing through the Django source repository, I often notice amendments to the internationalisation code and it got me thinking about how ‘complete’ … Continue reading

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Source Control Commit Visualisation

Software development relies on source control management software such as CVS, Subversion, SourceSafe, Bitkeeper, Mercurial, Git and the like to track and manage the changes in the source code over time. As a project progresses, developers come and go, contractors … Continue reading

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Hello world!

You’ve reached the technical home of Alistair Lattimore. This site came about after I decided to act on a multiple personality disorder that I’ve had for a while.

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