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Budapest

westi — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 09:00:43 +0000

Winning Sussex Breakfast @billysontheroad

westi — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 10:50:15 +0000

Breakfast is one of my favourite meals, in fact if I had it my way I could probably have it three times a day so when I heard about a new local breakfast spot I had to try it out especially when I found they were using WordPress for their website

So this morning I popped over for a Full English at Billy’s on the Road. The old Little Chef has converted well into a traditional diner with friendly staff, good coffee, great food and a great atmosphere.

I really enjoyed this and I really enjoy supporting local businesses, I’m sure I’ll be back soon to try out some more of the expansive menu.

Fixing your unit tests

westi — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 12:26:28 +0000

You know that thing that happens when you love writing unit tests so much that you completely forget the argument order of all the assert(Equals|InstanceOf) functions.

Yeah it does happen, I’m sure it is not just me

You write everything in as $this->assertEquals( function_call(), 'expected string' ); and then you get really confused when phpunit tells you it expects the wrong result from the function you haven’t implemented yet and received the expected result.

You do!

Good, I managed to write tests the wrong way round for two days before I realised and I wasn’t looking forward to going through and correcting them all, but then I remembered the power of sed and started cooking a recipe up.

It turned out pretty simple: sed -i "s/$.*assert[^(]*$( $[^,]*$, $[^)]*$ );/\1( \3, \2 );/" file_of_tests.php.

What it does:

Capture the start of the line up to the call to the assert function in ‘\1′
Capture the two function arguments in ‘\2′ and ‘\3′
Rewrite the matched line with the arguments switched

That was fun!

Odd sized prints

westi — Sat, 24 Nov 2012 19:15:10 +0000

Need to print some odd sizes photos like I did today? If so Odd Prints is your friend. Really simple to go through and organised the 4cm square and 4×6.5cm prints I need to fill the photo clock I received as a present.

Truffle

westi — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 04:43:10 +0000

Green Tomatoes

westi — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 12:08:01 +0000

Jetpack 2.0: Publicize to Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Tumblr; Post by Email; Photon; Infinite Scroll

westi — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 13:35:14 +0000

Really impressed to see the features that we managed to get into Jetpack 2.0 – Jetpack 2.0: Publicize to Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Tumblr; Post by Email; Photon; Infinite Scroll.

If you’ve not installed Jetpack yet, you should!

Setting up an Airport Express on Mountain Lion

westi — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 15:18:57 +0000

The old style Airport Expresses are amazing and have been around a long time, they are great for extending your home network and also great for setting up impromptu networks when travelling.

However, as of Mountain Lion the Airport Utility (which is now pretty dumbed down) doesn’t support them which is kind of lame – I guess when the devices once had an expected life of 18 months that isn’t much of a surprise.

There is however still a solution, AirPort Utility 5.6 for Mac OS X Lion, which of course you can’t install on Mountain Lion until you find these excellent instructions.

From frustrated to happy in the space of 5 minutes, now I can get this Tiger running Mac Mini from 2006 back online alongside the new Mac Book Air that replaces it.

Now I just need to see if I can set the second one up for my in-laws too so they can get iPlayer on the TV

Day 6: Fernlee Reservoir

westi — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 15:05:21 +0000

Today we went for Lunch at the excellent Swan in Kettleshulme followed by a lovely walk around the Fernlee Reservoir.

Day 5: Longshaw

westi — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 14:42:43 +0000

Today we went on two walks on the Longshaw Estate with a trip to The Maynard for lunch in between.