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CSS & Javascript truncated by nginx

Apr

2013

On several recent projects I’ve been using VirtualBox and Vagrant to spin up new development machines. The simplicity and power of the two tools together is amazing, and stops me from cluttering up my main machine with tools and packages from random side projects. It hasn’t been all sweetness and light though. I wrote recently ...

Symlink shenanigans – node.js, npm, express and vagrant 1

Apr

2013

Recently I was working on a new project on a virtual box set up through vagrant. For those of you who haven’t used it, vagrant is an amazing tool that makes it crazy-easy to set up and deploy uniform development environments on virtual servers. However, I ran in to a very frustrating issue when trying ...

Share and share alike – Facebook Tags and Twitter Cards

Apr

2013

Recently we launched a Property Tax Calculator on Daft. It’s quite a topical tool, as the Revenue Commissioners have just sent out letters inviting people to self-assess their property value ahead of the the new tax introduction. Topical pages like this tend to get shared more often on social networks, so we took a few ...

Malkovich Malkovich Malkovich

Jun

2011

In the film Being John Malkovich, John Cusack plays a puppeteer who finds a portal to inside John Malkovich’s head. Eventually John Malkovich himself goes through this portal, and the ensuing paradox means that every word he hears is “Malkovich”, and every face he sees is his own. Re-watching this film lately gave me an ...

Programmatically Detect AdBlock Plus 2

Dec

2010

One issue that comes up time and again when working on classified sites such as Daft.ie and Adverts.ie is the inadvertent blocking of site functionality by the AdBlock Plus extension. As so many parts of classified sites will logically have phrases like “ad” in the url, legitimate site content and features can be blocked inadvertently ...

Extending Twitter – adding Imgur previews 3

Nov

2010

Update 08/12/2010 – There’s now a Firefox Extension in the Add-Ons sandbox available for adding this media preview to Twitter, as well as previews for Daft.ie and Adverts.ie ads. With their recent site redesign, Twitter added a number of interesting new features. One of the more useful of these is the media preview. From ...

But how will the markets react?

Nov

2010

Over the last few weeks, as Ireland has continued a head-long dive in to a financial abyss, it seems that every policy proposal, every political criticism and even every newspaper editorial has met the default response of “how will the markets react?”

A Grab Bag of Bookmarklets

Apr

2010

A (semi-) frequently updated list of simple bookmarklets I’ve found somewhat useful. Some of the more complex ones for use on twitter.com (Custom filtering of the timeline and Hovercard removal) are discussed in more detail elsewhere on the site. The below are a collection of short and sweet bookmarklets that do a simple but effective ...

DeClutter Twitter 20

Mar

2010

Updated 28/03/2010 – changed how the bookmarklet re-applies itself to now work in realtime, rather than at clumsy, staggered intervals. Twitter can be a very useful tool, particularly once you’ve built up a decent-sized network of people with interests common to your own. The twitter timeline is often compared to being in a pub filled ...