Author archive: Steven Wake

Steven Wake
September 28, 2011

Global Git ignore

A handy little feature of Git is the global ignore file. Use this file to exclude annoying system files from your nice clean repo, especially good for those dreaded .DS_Store files (Mac poo) on OSX and Thumbs.db files on Windows.

Setup and configuration of a global ignore file is extremely simple:

Kyan intranet gets an iPhone app makeover

The Kyan office has more than it’s fair share of Apple phone users (a company iPhone is one of the perks of working here) — On that basis it made sense to create a version of our homegrown intranet that works on the iPhone when our folk are away from the office. Duties fell to Phil and myself to bring this to fruition.

Steven Wake
April 07, 2009

Very late to the party

Of late I’ve been missing lots of comms from all over.

Eighteen months ago I signed up to Twitter to see what all the fuss was about – I very quickly decided I hated it. ‘I am doing this’, ‘I have just done that’ – why do I need to know this? Another form of communication that I had to keep tabs on. I already have IM, email and a mobile phone why would I choose to run another application to monitor something that I’m not interested in? BAH!

Steven Wake
November 04, 2008

The Entifyr

The Entifyr is a small web application that started life as an personal experiment to automate the removal of problem characters from client supplied content (usually Microsoft Word documents). The offending characters are replaced with corresponding entities (hence the name) allowing the content to display correctly.

"DO NOT EAT" THROW AWAY

I have the driest draw here at Kyan towers. You see, I am the proud owner of a Silica Gel collection. There is just something about them which compels me to not throw away the little fellas.