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A stroke of luck. August 6th, 2009. Error installing plugins in Eclipse on OSX. I’ve run into this problem twice in the last couple of days while downloading and installing new versions of Eclipse. And trying out different packages for PHP. First time I googled around I couldn’t find a solution and so had to figure it out myself. Second time I thought that maybe I should make a note of my solution as other people might run into it as well. The problem shows itself with the following error message:. And t...

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Graham King » Memcached: List all keys

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October 20, 2009. Memcached: List all keys. At 17:50 by graham. In the general case, there is no way to list all the keys. Instance is storing. You can, however, list something like the first 1Meg of keys, which is usually enough during development. Here’s how:. Telnet to your server:. Telnet 127.0.0.1 11211. List the items, to get the slab ids:. Stats items STAT items:3:number 1 STAT items:3:age 498 STAT items:22:number 1 STAT items:22:age 498 END. Thanks to Boris Partensky in the Memcached group here.

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Graham King » Kinesis Advantage after four months

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December 7, 2013. Kinesis Advantage after four months. At 23:58 by graham. I have been using a Kinesis Advantage keyboard for the past four months, since August. I love it. Here’s my trip report. Before this keyboard I had been using Microsoft Natural. Keyboards for many many years. Let’s cut straight to the chase:. The first three days were very hard. I was surprised how compact the keyboard is; it takes about 10% less desk space than the MS Natural did. I have no problem switching back and forth be...

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Graham King » Joshua Schacter – del.icio.us – Things we've learned

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February 18, 2006. Joshua Schacter – del.icio.us – Things we've learned. Posted in Future of Web Apps. At 14:05 by graham. These are the notes I took at Joshua Schachter’s talk at the Future Of Web Applications (futureofwebapps) conference, in London on Wednesday 8th February 2006. Lars Ploughman posted a great mind map. Cross browser compatibility is difficult. Aggregation of attention is interesting: What are people looking at, etc. Top 10. Learn the ins and outs of Apache, including mod rewrite. Don&#...

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Graham King » Science fiction: Ancillary Sword

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May 13, 2015. Science fiction: Ancillary Sword. At 04:56 by graham. They sang it anyway. If you’re going to read it, start with Hugo and Nebula away winner Ancillary Justice. 1 Comment ». Rodrigo Medeiros said,. May 27, 2015 at 15:57. I started reading Ancillary Justice and already love it! There is a neat list of all winners of both Nebula and Hugo awards at Wikipedia: http:/ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List of joint winners of the Hugo and Nebula awards. Ender’s Game is a favorite of mine). Future of Web Apps.

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Graham King » Behaviour

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June 18, 2015. How I read job postings. At 00:40 by graham. In the interests of illustrating the complicated programmer psyche for the benefit of anyone involved in recruitment, here’s the two things I look at in a job advert:. Is it using a programming language / technology that I know and enjoy? If I don’t enjoy the tools, the days are really going to drag. If I don’t already know the language, you’re probably not going to hire me. Is it fully remote, or near my house? Those are the gatekeeper questions.

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Graham King » History

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May 2, 2008. Clay Shirky at Web 2.0 Expo – just watch it. At 20:23 by graham. If you really don’t want to watch it, read the transcript of Clay Shirky’s talk at Web2.0 Expo. October 30, 2005. When thieves fall out. At 16:54 by graham. Interesting details are emerging regarding a wartime tiff between General Wesley Clark, former NATO Supreme Allied Commander and General Sir Michael Jackson of Britain, former commander of NATO “peacekeeping” forces in Kosovo. Stunned and angered by the Muscovite maneuver, ...

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Graham King » How memory is allocated

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July 10, 2015. How memory is allocated. At 16:38 by graham. Last year when I was learning assembler. I was asking myself how to allocate memory without. Usually memory is either allocated for us by our language, or we do it with. Is a library function, it’s not a system call. How does. Itself get memory from the kernel? To answer that we need to look at the layout of a program in memory. First we have to find out where it is now. Mov $12, %rax # brk syscall number mov $0, %rdi # 0 is invalid, want to get...

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Graham King » Future of Web Apps

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July 7, 2010. Kathy Sierra: Give your users super-powers. Posted in Future of Web Apps. At 07:15 by graham. At the Business Of Software. Conference last autumn. Hour long talk, really worth watching (as the length of my notes will vouch). It’s not about you, not about your product, it’s about how awesome you make your users. If you sell digital cameras, make your users better photographers. Through a better camera yes, but also teach them about exposure, light, etc. Here are my notes:. May 17, 2009.

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Graham King » Finance

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December 9, 2008. On the American automobile industry. At 06:02 by graham. Joshua-Michéle Ross at O’Reilly Radar writes about the money the American taxpayer (government) is giving Genera Motors, Chrysler and Ford to save them from bankruptcy:. The threat of relocating factories etc.) all in an effort to conform the not so free market to its lumbering non-strategies of pursuing short-term profit. Full article: Catch 22: Too Big To Fail, Too Big To Suceed. October 23, 2005. At 17:19 by graham. How easy it...