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- new searches possible on our content api - political people (http://t.co/833iG8fS), us sports (http://t.co/YAI0gSph) 9 hrs ago
- I just released editorial folders to the guardian content API explorer. Congrats to @steppenwells who did all the hard work. 9 hrs ago
- Doh just spent 15 minutes updating content api client tests to reflect a new json file when I accidentally refreshed file. 21 hrs ago
- Damn you blizzard. Why is my world of warcraft "optimizing" on guild night with an unskippable 20 minute process? 1 day ago
- Family demanded that I cook pancakes this morning, so pancakes it is. 1 day ago
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Map, map and flatMap in Scala
Posted on December 2, 2011 | No CommentsOne 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... -
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... -
Packaging and deploying python web apps
Posted on January 26, 2011 | 8 CommentsI love python. I have really started to get into python in a big way since I was a beta tester for Google’s App Engine, and I’ve used it for... -
Interview Questions, The XOR trick, and why you should just say No
Posted on September 7, 2010 | 1 CommentSo I’m going to talk about the XOR trick, but first I’m going to say where I came across it. A fair few years ago I worked briefly in the... -
Stack traces in production
Posted on August 3, 2010 | No CommentsThere have been a number of incidents recently where a public website I've been using has gone wrong shown me a nice server provided stack trace on the screen. The... -
Using Twitter @Anywhere – An introduction
Posted on April 14, 2010 | 2 CommentsNote: This post was written when this blog was hosted on a custom written blog engine. I’ve since moved back to wordpress so some details refering to this site may... -
PyCharm – First Impressions
Posted on February 3, 2010 | No CommentsDid you see my link a few days ago, about PyCharm being released by JetBrains? I hope so because it is a very interesting IDE for python and django developers.... -
Regular Expressions
Posted on December 18, 2009 | No CommentsI'm not a big fan of regular expressions. They can be powerful, but for anything remotely complicated they can be a nightmare to maintain and re-read. I had an idea...