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About Author: bruntonspall
Posts by bruntonspall
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A geek’s diet plan
Posted on April 9, 2012 | 3 CommentsSo I’ve been getting a little rotund of belly of late, and my family had started making jokes about my waistline and the jelly like qualities of my stomach. I’m... -
What is DevOps not?
Posted on March 13, 2012 | 2 CommentsI’ve spent the last two weeks at conferences, and for some reason people keep assuming that I work in operations. I can kind of understand why, but it’s also started... -
Tech Weekly podcast: when books go social
Posted on January 9, 2012 | No CommentsCharles Arthur meets the man behind Anobii.com, a social network for your bookshelf. Plus the curious case of Rupert Murdoch and Wendi Deng's Twitter accounts. Are they real?
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Map, map and flatMap in Scala
Posted on December 2, 2011 | 1 CommentOne of the things I like about Scala is it’s collections framework. As a non CS graduate I only very lightly covered functional programming at university and I’d never come... -
Annoyed by Guardian Facebook app?
Posted on November 12, 2011 | 1 CommentAre your friends sharing links to the Guardian Facebook app in their twitter feeds but you don’t use Facebook and want to see the original guardian page? Unfortunately due to... -
Adding Google Plus redirect to your Nginx powered site
Posted on November 12, 2011 | 1 CommentA quick one, this morning I’ve added the plus url to my website, so http://www.brunton-spall.co.uk/+ now redirects to my Google+ profile. This, it turns out, is really easy to implement... -
Identifiers are not numbers
Posted on September 24, 2011 | 4 Comments“I am not a number, I am a free man” So something bugs me (I know, big shock), and it’s API documentation like this: The document will be returned as:... -
Scala, lazy collections, streams and recursion
Posted on September 1, 2011 | No CommentsI’m currently rewriting the deployment system at the guardian in Scala, and although I’d say I know Scala, I’m learning lots of things as we go. I’m lucky enough to... -
Google+ – A gentle introduction
Posted on July 1, 2011 | No CommentsSo a couple of days ago Google launched Google+, a product that did not slip out quietly it seems despite Google’s intentions. You’ve probably read journalists who love it and... -
Google’s Chrome browser hits 160m users – but what does it mean for the web?
Posted on June 14, 2011 | No CommentsSearch giant's browser gets automatically updated, yet there's a hint that it might be shifting towards the territory that made Internet Explorer so divisive







