Stut.net
Ramblings of a random software engineer
Stuart Dallas
is a
Software Architect/Engineer
, a
Photographer
, a
Twitterer
, a
Facebooker
, a
Flickrer
, and a
human being
.
Latest ramblings...
Handling email notifications
on November 12, 2011
Education as we know it doesn't work
on October 19, 2011
Sonalight Voice to Text
on October 13, 2011
Rackspace CloudFiles plugin for Jekyll
on September 27, 2011
mysql_real_escape_string is not enough
on September 15, 2011
Fortune's Tower in PHP
on August 16, 2011
Introducing FURL
on August 06, 2011
Photographers: Stand Your Ground
on August 05, 2011
How the internet happens
on July 13, 2011
Anvil shooting
on July 13, 2011
Show all 247 ramblings so far...
Rube Goldberg machine using photographic equipment
on July 12, 2011
Slow Motion Video - Apollo 11 Saturn V Launch
on July 06, 2011
The new Stut.net, now powered by Jekyll
on June 19, 2011
Your iPhone knows where you were last summer!
on April 21, 2011
PHP Snippet: Array element access
on April 12, 2011
How ink is made
on April 06, 2011
RackspaceCloud CloudFiles Uploader Script
on March 20, 2011
How LCD monitors work
on March 20, 2011
Twitter TOS changes
on March 13, 2011
Jack Dorsey on Entrepreneurship
on February 28, 2011
Misleading broadband ads
on January 24, 2011
Why work doesn't happen at work
on November 30, 2010
Beardyman
on July 08, 2010
Twitter-related domain names for sale
on July 06, 2010
The importance of nice URLs
on June 25, 2010
TweetMeme Live Test Video from April 2009
on February 19, 2010
Goals for 2010
on January 15, 2010
In search of models
on November 26, 2009
What's going on?
on November 02, 2009
PHP Job Queue
on May 29, 2009
Spam poetry
on April 29, 2009
Facebook gets something right
on April 29, 2009
Regional Limitations
on April 13, 2009
Extreme Sheep LED Art
on March 23, 2009
Handling email notifications from Twitter
on March 08, 2009
Twitter unfollows: too much information?
on January 31, 2009
Alexei Arkhipovskiy - Sharmanka
on January 25, 2009
OAuth and Twitter: Realistic expectations
on January 24, 2009
Automated content failure
on January 23, 2009
Twitorfit
on December 17, 2008
New company site for 3ft9
on December 05, 2008
Holiday 2008 part 1: The Scottish Highlands
on November 11, 2008
Snippet: Simple templates with PHP
on October 28, 2008
Snippet: Password generator for PHP
on October 23, 2008
Snippet: Singletons with PHP
on October 20, 2008
Snippet: Time class for PHP
on October 17, 2008
Snippet: Cookie class for PHP
on October 16, 2008
Snippet: Page expiry in PHP
on October 15, 2008
Requiring unnecessary information
on October 13, 2008
Sessionless Sessions
on July 26, 2008
MySQL Sessions
on July 20, 2008
Yet Another URL Shortener
on June 21, 2008
Sending email
on June 18, 2008
Beginner's guide to HDR photography
on June 17, 2008
Where are these backslashes coming from?
on June 08, 2008
Validating domains and email addresses
on June 08, 2008
Pop-unders
on June 08, 2008
PHP Models
on June 08, 2008
Another new design
on June 02, 2008
TitsUp is better than the rest
on May 24, 2008
Has that website gone TitsUp?
on May 23, 2008
Recent ads from Freeads Classifieds on Twitter
on April 28, 2008
Is it harder to create usable digital interfaces?
on April 13, 2008
When will ISPs realise they're supposed to be "service providers"?
on April 09, 2008
Twitter public timeline
on April 04, 2008
BigDog ... WOW!
on March 28, 2008
Sessionless Sessions
on March 11, 2008
New Stut.net design
on February 15, 2008
Outage
on February 11, 2008
Blog issues
on January 31, 2008
Tweetmeme Launch
on January 28, 2008
MacHeist - Less than 3 days left to get your bargain bundle
on January 21, 2008
So long 2007, hello 2008
on December 31, 2007
Information Responsibility
on November 25, 2007
That other bit of news
on November 19, 2007
Web hosting - a mugs game
on November 10, 2007
Personal info on Facebook
on November 04, 2007
New hosting
on October 17, 2007
Dilbert on Experience
on October 14, 2007
Extracting the map from social networks
on October 10, 2007
Amazon S3 SLA
on October 09, 2007
Link Dumper Disabled
on October 07, 2007
links for 2007-10-04
on October 05, 2007
Fav.or.it Coverage
on October 02, 2007
links for 2007-09-28
on September 29, 2007
links for 2007-09-26
on September 27, 2007
links for 2007-09-25
on September 26, 2007
links for 2007-09-23
on September 24, 2007
links for 2007-09-21
on September 22, 2007
links for 2007-09-17
on September 18, 2007
links for 2007-09-14
on September 15, 2007
links for 2007-09-13
on September 14, 2007
links for 2007-09-12
on September 13, 2007
links for 2007-09-11
on September 12, 2007
links for 2007-09-10
on September 11, 2007
links for 2007-09-06
on September 07, 2007
links for 2007-09-03
on September 04, 2007
Windsor Festival 2007 iCalendar File
on August 30, 2007
links for 2007-08-28
on August 29, 2007
links for 2007-08-27
on August 28, 2007
links for 2007-08-23
on August 24, 2007
The ITV website is misleading
on August 23, 2007
links for 2007-08-22
on August 23, 2007
links for 2007-08-21
on August 22, 2007
links for 2007-08-19
on August 20, 2007
Dell Latitude X1 for sale
on August 19, 2007
links for 2007-08-17
on August 18, 2007
links for 2007-08-16
on August 17, 2007
Zend ACL Podcast
on August 16, 2007
links for 2007-08-15
on August 16, 2007
links for 2007-08-14
on August 15, 2007
fav.or.it
on August 15, 2007
links for 2007-08-13
on August 14, 2007
Flying through rain
on August 14, 2007
links for 2007-08-12
on August 13, 2007
links for 2007-08-08
on August 09, 2007
TPB usage policy
on August 08, 2007
links for 2007-08-07
on August 08, 2007
links for 2007-08-06
on August 07, 2007
links for 2007-08-05
on August 06, 2007
Inconsiderate shared hosting customers
on August 06, 2007
links for 2007-08-04
on August 05, 2007
YouTube selection
on August 04, 2007
Stuff
on August 04, 2007
links for 2007-08-04
on August 04, 2007
Salamander Control Suite
on August 03, 2007
Bloody servers
on July 25, 2007
The end of PHP 4 is nigh!
on July 13, 2007
The Windsor Wheel
on July 07, 2007
Recruitment agents... an example
on June 21, 2007
Recruitment Agencies - Just Say No!
on June 17, 2007
The Art of Innovation
on June 16, 2007
PHP Competition
on June 14, 2007
Content distribution
on June 11, 2007
Process priorities in Windows Mobile 5
on May 26, 2007
Linkdump - May 8th, 2007
on May 08, 2007
Linkdump - May 6th, 2007
on May 06, 2007
Flickr User
on May 06, 2007
Canon Speedlite 580EX Flash
on May 06, 2007
Switched to Wordpress
on May 05, 2007
Linkdump - May 5th, 2007
on May 05, 2007
About me
on April 16, 2007
Wii Tennis: 2017
on March 31, 2007
RSS feed fixed
on March 31, 2007
MyToons
on March 14, 2007
Robotic Introspection: Self Modeling
on March 13, 2007
Job search update
on March 13, 2007
Recruiting home owners
on February 16, 2007
Extension Tubes
on January 22, 2007
Centralised Calendar
on January 21, 2007
iPhone surprises Bill Gates
on January 10, 2007
VerizonMath
on December 11, 2006
Compile Delphi with Speechless
on December 11, 2006
Phones4U Sucks
on December 10, 2006
Program Manager
on December 07, 2006
Detention
on November 17, 2006
A rant against "end the auction early" offers on eBay
on November 16, 2006
Ebay time again
on November 15, 2006
Darkness, Light, Darkness
on November 12, 2006
PHP Models
on November 05, 2006
Pendulumeca
on November 05, 2006
Knex Roller Coaster
on September 29, 2006
Amazing Machines
on September 29, 2006
QEDWiki
on September 20, 2006
String Cracker
on September 11, 2006
PHP Output Speed
on September 11, 2006
New site
on September 10, 2006
Juggle-tastic
on April 01, 2006
Nobody and Joe
on January 16, 2006
Funniest Email Ever!!
on January 13, 2006
MySQL Backup Script
on December 19, 2005
Apache Log Pretty Printer
on August 30, 2005
RSS Feed Fixed
on August 18, 2005
The Spodcast is Live!!
on August 16, 2005
EZSniper - Ebay Auto-Bidder
on August 03, 2005
Girl Friday Curriculum Vitae
on July 13, 2005
Pay per mile
on June 11, 2005
IT Vision
on June 07, 2005
GRankT: Google Rank Tracker
on June 07, 2005
Funny Shit
on April 26, 2005
Regex Master
on April 11, 2005
Selling some stuff on eBay
on March 19, 2005
The future of media consumption?
on February 20, 2005
Trusted Shares (.NET)
on February 10, 2005
Rename a MySQL Database
on February 05, 2005
Ivan Noble
on February 02, 2005
A coupla jokes
on January 20, 2005
VNC Manager
on November 28, 2004
Photo Blog
on November 24, 2004
A new design I like
on November 22, 2004
Magic words
on November 18, 2004
New site design
on November 04, 2004
Microsoft and MONO
on November 04, 2004
Athletics Club Programming Challenge
on October 29, 2004
Aussie 419 Victim
on October 18, 2004
New stick figure fight
on September 06, 2004
Microsoft Port Reporter
on September 05, 2004
FreeBSD: PHP 4.3.8 port upgrade failure
on August 02, 2004
Cheap photo prints
on July 06, 2004
Apple 30" LCD Displays.. Drool!!
on June 28, 2004
BBC Euro 2004 Virtual Replay
on June 21, 2004
"How Microsoft Lost the API War"
on June 16, 2004
Spammers Imposition
on June 11, 2004
Remove MSN Messenger from XP
on June 11, 2004
ISP Censorship
on June 10, 2004
The Bush pigs
on June 06, 2004
Added commenting
on June 05, 2004
Turn off wrapping in Nano
on June 03, 2004
Stut.net goes skinnable
on June 01, 2004
Another re-design
on May 31, 2004
I'm now officially a Deviant
on May 12, 2004
Stut.net Rewrite
on April 19, 2004
If architects had to work like programmers...
on March 10, 2004
English is a crazy language
on March 10, 2004
Tony Blair in Primary School
on February 11, 2004
Managed DirectX Tutorial
on February 10, 2004
Up in smoke
on February 04, 2004
Spend 2-3k on a PC case?
on January 28, 2004
Nice for a quick hack
on January 09, 2004
Interesting article on the (potential) downfall of Microsoft
on January 05, 2004
The drugs aren't needed
on December 15, 2003
Useful Procmail tips
on December 10, 2003
Amazing photo
on November 28, 2003
LA officials call for end to master/slave labels
on November 27, 2003
Buy Toilet Paper Online
on November 27, 2003
"All the stupid people. Where do they all come from?"
on November 04, 2003
Universal Truths
on August 19, 2003
I'm employed again
on July 17, 2003
Ebay Amusement
on June 29, 2003
My search (well, one of them) is over!
on May 20, 2003
Spitfire hits eBay
on April 03, 2003
Wendy (1U SCSI Server) For Sale
on March 27, 2003
Redundant and homeless :(
on March 27, 2003
Damn Oxidation Therapists
on March 26, 2003
Apple PowerBook G4 for Sale
on March 22, 2003
Some French bashing
on March 20, 2003
Who's in charge?
on March 18, 2003
More proof that the American legal system is falling apart
on March 14, 2003
Company Policy
on March 11, 2003
Has US security really gone this far?
on January 29, 2003
Should Microsoft build the next version of Windows on top of Linux?
on January 19, 2003
The 'Family Thing'
on December 29, 2002
Christmas 2002 - Was it good for you?
on December 26, 2002
Christmas is coming
on December 18, 2002
Triumph Spitfire 1500 For Sale
on November 05, 2002
My new toy
on October 02, 2002
Cars galore
on September 08, 2002