Parallels Saved My Life – Again!
I can’t work without virtualisation. Period. I love my Mac and Parallels is an integral part of the way I work. I know there are some good competitors out there but if it ain’t broken, why fix it. Parallels is by no means broken so there is no means to change [...]
Migrating from Serendipity to Wordpress
This blog is really a note to myself and anyone else interested in doing the same thing. Basically, I wanted to move off my old blog based on Serendipity 1.1 and onto the latest version of Wordpress (2.3.2 as of yesterday evening!). After picking my way through doom and gloom posts, it’s impossible, [...]
The Knowledge Portfolio
When I started out on my PhD I was given a great piece of advice from a someone who had just completed theirs: whatever you do, whatever you read, document it! Oh, and one more thing Cleve, make sure you read one article, every day, until you have completed your thesis. This was [...]
Mac OS X – Linux for Dummies?
Outside of work, I’m responsible for two sites really, clevegibbon.com and helent.co.uk. Both are very simple html sites that have been designed in DreamWeaver. I have decided to move away from DreamWeaver and implement clevegibbon.com in Ruby and helent.co.uk in php.
Now, I have recently dropped the Windows desktop and migrated over to [...]
Mac OS X Desktop Authoring Clients
I’m new to the whole mac os X world. So after a quick google for a desktop authoring client, I found out that I need to pay. But before I do, I’m going to trial the shortlist.
At the moment, i’m going with ecto and this is my first post. Let’s see how [...]
I spy a Mac
The winds are changing…
Here I am at 05:00 GMT, having uninstalled Napster, researching MacBook Pros, installing the latest iTunes on my windows laptop that irritates me now, playing around with containers in Ruby using the latest nighly build of the Netbeans Ruby IDE (19Mb).
The Netbeans Ruby IDE has intellisense and hover over docs. Two of THE most important development [...]
