Archives

2023

May 26 Current fitness regime

2022

Jul 3 Learning from losses in trading and investing
Mar 20 Buying Bitcoin on a recurring schedule
Feb 18 A year of not working

2021

Dec 13 Visualising the Bitcoin futures curve on Android
Sep 8 Unintentionally switching to Ubuntu and Android
Jun 24 Using Elixir to visualise the Bitcoin futures curve
Jun 12 Decommissioning my first every Sinatra app
Jun 11 Migrating from WordPress to Hugo
Jun 4 An Android app to measure exercise performance

2016

Aug 29 RPC between Go and Ruby using Protocol Buffers

2015

Jul 2 Five years of contracting

2014

Dec 4 Docker and Go Hello World
Aug 10 Blogging on Ansible

2013

Dec 29 A simple service oriented architecture using Ruby and Go
Sep 2 Serving up a static site using Go
Aug 18 Contracting in London
May 26 Decisions, decisions, decisions
Mar 5 Two years of working away from home

2012

2011

Nov 1 My also-ran Markdown Editor for OS X
Sep 5 A tale of three pull requests
May 19 An iOS client for my UK inflation app
May 12 Keeping an eye on UK inflation with Google App Engine
Feb 20 A minimal Rack app to lookup your external IP address
Jan 11 Backing up Delicious bookmarks to CouchDB

2010

Dec 25 Installing RMagick on Debian Lenny
Dec 13 Minder - a simple web-app monitoring tool written in Ruby
Aug 1 Is it raining in Belfast? Redux
Jun 27 An experimental lifestream app
Jun 8 Rails 3 Hello World
Mar 24 Home time revisited - redeveloping a CakePHP application with Sinatra
Mar 19 node-shoutbox - a simple node.js demo
Feb 14 A dummy datasource for CakePHP
Jan 5 Migrating a WordPress database between domains
Jan 4 MySQL database backup with remote storage

2009

Dec 13 6 months of Rehab
Sep 15 Mashing up Twitter Trends and Google Images
Jul 31 5x5 strength training program
Jun 16 Developer Rehab
Apr 21 Because everyone needs their own URL shortening service
Apr 16 Finally, after 2 and a half years, my Rails DVD catalogue is go
Apr 15 An experiment with Sinatra, HAML and Blueprint CSS
Feb 15 First production Rails app
Jan 26 Nano-Apps
Jan 21 2009 Irish Blog Awards Nominations

2008

Dec 29 Simple example of accessing the Twitter REST API with Ruby
Nov 21 John Devlin, 1977 - 2006
Nov 11 Strength training: adding variety
Sep 30 666: the number of the feast
Sep 9 Home time is a little closer
Sep 7 Current strength training program
Aug 25 Squid? Yes please!
Aug 12 Is it home time yet?
Aug 1 Deadlift Friday - no injury shocker
Jul 31 Busted fingers
Jul 27 # shutdown -h now
Jul 18 Bloody shins
Jun 27 Squatting 3 times a week and a return to early morning training
Jun 26 What, no version control?
Jun 25 Belfast Linux meetings restarted on last Wednesday of month
Jun 18 BarCamp Belfast 2008 this Saturday
Jun 12 Building the brand - stevenwilkin.com gets a facelift
Jun 10 Batch preparation of boiled eggs
Jun 5 Steven Wilkin, professional coffee drinker extraordinaire
Jun 4 A developer again I am
May 28 Ticket to ride - a break from the rat-race in Fermanagh
May 26 Bye bye $BIG_COMPANY - Steve leaves the enterprise
May 15 BarCamp Belfast 2008
May 12 Oats - weekly batch preparation
Apr 16 command line history - me too
Apr 14 $BIG_CORP rides the snake - my first Python script
Apr 1 Updating WordPress via Subversion: it works!
Mar 27 1337
Mar 5 Updating WordPress via Subversion
Feb 28 New site theme at last
Feb 23 New 5RM Deadlift Today
Feb 16 Virgin Media customer satisfaction shocker
Feb 15 Trigger happy without broadband
Feb 13 6 months at $BIG_CORP
Feb 12 Fun with Photoshop and cross-browser CSS
Jan 28 Getting ready to launch infurious.com
Jan 4 Site migration
Jan 3 28 today
Jan 2 Infurious in person
Jan 1 ISP style mail server on Debian VPS

2007

Dec 28 ASUS Eee PC action shot
Dec 22 ASUS Eee PC
Dec 18 Infurious Update
Nov 7 Reinventing IRC - Jabber is go
Nov 2 That's me that is
Oct 27 Back in Mac
Oct 23 mod_python, trac and ubuntu no go
Oct 19 With Infurious Intent
Oct 9 Google Analytics
Oct 2 AjaxTerm
Sep 22 I now have wheels!
Sep 12 Windows rage
Sep 7 Carving a niche
Aug 13 Citi
Aug 7 MySQL upgrade
Aug 3 Neuromancer re-re-revisited
Jul 30 New adventures in clerical progression
Jul 9 CakePHP 1.2alpha - model validation
Jul 5 Patching CakePHP
Jun 30 BarCamp Cometh
Jun 27 BarCamp Belfast
Jun 21 Eurofeeds upgrade
Jun 19 Change in usenet provider
Jun 6 Synchronising production and development code with subversion
May 31 MacServ deployed
May 15 Nerves of chocolate
Apr 25 I made this
Apr 19 The pot crack'd
Apr 13 Ninan 1.1.0
Apr 5 Now streaming Year Zero
Apr 3 PHP predefined variables on BSD
Mar 23 New Workspace
Mar 7 iTerm on OS X
Feb 28 First post from OS X
Feb 23 Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero
Feb 21 O frabjous day!
Feb 21 Ajax: first impressions
Feb 15 Amazon.co.uk free super saver delivery
Feb 14 PyAIMt
Feb 7 CakePHP
Feb 2 Fun with port forwarding
Jan 31 Abbreviated Weight Training
Jan 30 Site update
Jan 27 Wikipedia HiJinks
Jan 25 Security Enhancements for Dummies
Jan 18 Ninan 1.0.5 on Slackware 11.0
Jan 15 Now With Filter Coffee!
Jan 9 UML For A Laugh
Jan 8 ClickOnce, yeah right
Jan 7 2(00)7
Jan 5 WinForm Woes

2006

Dec 30 WordPress 2.0.5
Dec 20 Secret Santa
Dec 15 Friday Funk
Dec 14 Bulk Powders
Dec 8 In Pursuit Of vdaExtensions 1.1
Nov 28 Continuing Fitness Fanaticism
Nov 24 Early Morning Swim
Nov 23 Blades By Mail
Nov 15 Tuna Shake (Baby!)
Nov 1 Rip It Up And Start Again
Oct 26 XP on Kubuntu via VMware via VNC
Oct 25 Firefox 2
Oct 24 httpd Log Analysis
Oct 19 Close Crop
Oct 18 Ruby On Rails
Oct 12 Ghan House
Sep 23 Bialetti Moka Express
Sep 21 My Brain Hurts
Sep 19 Bye Bye Bodum
Sep 18 4mm Tunnels
Sep 15 Why, I haven't seen bicuspids like these since...
Sep 14 Barely Legal
Sep 13 First Post From Kubuntu
Sep 12 Here Lies Belfast
Sep 7 Drumstick Boogie
Sep 6 Pink Is The Colour
Sep 4 Breakfast Of Champions
Sep 1 Squat or Rot
Aug 24 Out With The Old, In With The New
Aug 9 It's Alive!
Aug 4 I For One Welcome Our New Version 2 Overlords
Jul 27 Clerks II
Jul 25 And There Are No Diamonds In The Mine
Jul 15 Syd is Dead, Long Live Syd
Jul 5 Wee Me
Jul 4 New Docs
Jul 3 Revolution Now
Jun 28 Where Old Code goes to Die
Jun 27 Oldboy
Jun 23 Jabber
Jun 21 Postfix(ed)
Jun 20 Snootchie Bootchies
Jun 20 Candy And A Currant Bun
Jun 15 Let Them Eat Cake
Jun 5 X-Men: The Last Stand
Jun 2 Windows Genuine (?) Advantage
May 31 I Read The News Today Oh, Boy
May 24 And So The Legend Grows