Matt Randles (Home): Archive

“And the pain this morning… It filled my head. It’s Jameson. It...”

– Hot Water Music - Trusty Chords

Jan 11th

want a job?

[UK only] want to be a junior web developer working on markup/c-sharp/asp.net/sitecore and some php? @wehttam me a link to your cv!

Dec 1st

A little bit of this, a little bit of that

Uch, finally updated http://mattrandl.es to be a more padded out landing page for a few main things :) So, most of my plans this year havn’t really come to fruition yet but i’m slowly sorting a lot of little things I want out. JIRA = my new godsend, I love a decent issue tracker and have convinced work to begin using it. I’ve also moved to using it at home, so hopefully, with a...

Jun 9th

Projects

Things i’m working on in 2011 Bizman - name due to change but put simple: a codeigniter app for managing a small business CLH - wont reveal all but it’s in two parts. The first is a bunch of bash scripts, the other is a server built in node.js Myself - the eternal pursuit to better myself and improve everything from linguistic skills and guitar proficiency to learning to enjoy my...

Jan 14th

ebay phishing feckery

Well, I got bored the other night and decided to do a quick little test on the ebay uk sandbox and found some suprising results. By splitting up a script tag into a string you can easily write a script out to the page, to include other javascript files or various other things. While this is all good and well for fancifying your ebay templates, it leaves the site vulnerable to phising attacks, I...

Dec 14th

Nov 7th

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Weight Loss

I hesitantly post this here, but I’ve since removed my 2 weight loss blogs from existence Back on 21st March 2009 I decided enough was enough, I had gained a lot of weight and put down a plan to loose it. The loose plan was: 2 Mile walk each morning Mon-Sat Sensible breakfasts: usually weighed out All Bran and half a grapefruit Sensible dinners: tomato’s on toast, soup and bread...

Nov 1st

Oct 23rd

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Finally getting to it

I’ve just finished clearing off a lot of items on the web I didn’t want there anymore. I’ve also re-jigged my online world into two tumblr blogs, one for personal and random finds - another for anything tech related!

Oct 4th

new years shmoo years

so far on my list of things to do this year - i’ve done 0…. but on the upside i am looking at more work and moving out, i will start kicking my ass into shape soon and .. well… im very happy is all that needs to be said!

Feb 24th

happy new year

I can’t promise a triumphant return to the limited blogging I did, or even that I’ll be at the computer much past what I have to be for work. But I can give a list of new year hopes…. Make time to read more blog and technology news Make time to learn new languages, both computer and linguistically speaking Train myself to jog a 5k Weight training to get rid of some skin ...

Jan 4th

its been a loooong time

Wow, i’ve spent the past few months hiding from my pc and tumblr and etc etc etc that is all…. what? thought i was back? wait till christmas :)

Dec 9th

Nov 7th

oh its goood

I know im not a student, but since freshers week I have had an awesome time, taking every opportunity to get drunk and chill the fuck out. With it being my bday next week I’ve decided it must continue at least until after then… that is all.

Oct 11th

Sep 21st

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decisions

I’ve had many project idea’s over the past year but never done them for varying reasons - I’ve decided in these months running up to end of year, I need a project to work on that’s all mine (geeky development) … not only that I need new hosting, I’m thinking of moving to a vps or dirt cheap dedi after reading a blog by zef

Sep 7th

jogging routine →

so i moved eatlog permanently to a tumblelog - here’s a quick post about my jogging routine…

Sep 1st

“business in the front, party at the back”

Aug 16th

Aug 10th

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FriendFeed vs Facebook

So, since 140 chars doesnt cut it, I thought I’d post here and link up! Let me begin by saying I’ve gone through a few different services and had my ups and downs with all of them. At its most basic I used to be hooked on IRC channels then forums and msn etc, but thats not the type of service I’m on about. I never did myspace, I just disliked it from the start for some reason....

Aug 10th

its only 14 freaking days

Yeah, yet again I kept thinking to myself this week “do it, post that, get it out of your head” … but instead I put things off, forget and this thing get ignored. Im still posting at least a weekly post on eatlog.co.uk but I’m thinking of letting a few domains expire, and more than likely shoving all my sites into one domain, so I can post some of the things I want to...

Aug 8th

Best laid plans....

So, for anyone who scoots past anything I post on, you will have noticed my few and far between posts. I’d like to give a decent reason other than either being busy or out of the house … but I have none! I think Im going to update my site soon [finally] and put more relevant stuff on. Things I see and like, music i’m making with Mark, random covers with other people, things...

Jul 26th

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Iphonenessnessness

Just a short update, to test posting from my iPhone. I’ve failed to post often over the past few months… I hope to change this, as currently I have no vent for my random findings… And I also haven’t vented on feelings and music. Trust me, there’s many things to vent on!

Jul 8th

Jun 30th

lateness

I’ll post in a week he says, been busy he says…. Yeah well, been working loads and decided I could natter on about my trip forever - i’ll upload all my photos to flickr and choose some to summarize the trip instead!

Jun 28th

brb gone to the moon

well, im in south africa and realised its been agessince I posted - ill post some stuffs either sunday night or early next week - tiredness depending…

Jun 18th

That's not what I ordered...

drew: …Can I send it back? That’s exactly what I wanted to say. I had about 10 really smartass things to say back. But I couldn’t. I was frozen. Speechless. Zip back a few weeks. I had parted ways with Strands, and got the most amazing opportunity with GOGII in LA as Director of Community. Dream job. A move to LA was imminent. But first, a trip home to Philly to visit the folks and...

Jun 3rd

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Server building

Realised I hadn’t given an update on the home server situation. Well after getting the new case etc I found the board to be broken … didnt matter what OS I tried, the network wouldnt work, some sort of IRQ problem. After sending the board back it was confirmed broken and replaced within 6 days, not the fastest but the customer service was seemless to be fair. Now, I’ve decided...

May 20th

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server build

So, my development server has hanged a few times over the past few months, then a few days ago it hanged, and refused to come back. Considering the age of the machine, unavailability of replacement parts and it looking like a motherboard problem, I opted for a new one! I purchased myself a mini itx system with onboard 1.2ghz processor (fanless) and a gig of low profile ram. This server never runs...

Apr 30th

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updating looks

Ok, so I re-skinned this little ol bit of me on the web again… I prefer it light…

Apr 26th

development

I’ve done a lot of research this week. I’ve been thinking about optimization to reduce costs of hosting. In the past I’ve always been write once, refactor a gazillion times. For my current idea/project I’ve been thinking about optimization before starting, researching technologies to get an idea or where to start… Anyway…. very quiet on here lately as a result...

Apr 26th

slypoll

Yeah, been a heck of a long time since I did something good and showed it off a bit. Soon will be time, I’m working on (as a project) slypoll.com. I’ve just taken the existing site offline (keeping existing polls up till I finish playing). There’s still a fair way to go, and this will be hosted on new hosting, so there’s that to sort as well. I might preview some bits on...

Apr 13th

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new blog theme

So, i got bored of the old one, tell the truth I’m bored of this one before I’m finished. It will be changing again without a doubt, I just wanted to move to a xhtml/css only theme, no images to host etc. Everything is now served from tumblr. Looking to change a lot of things regarding web soon, I’d like to share more of the things I come across and the ideas I have. In other...

Mar 25th

Time For Change →

I’ve been logging what i eat since new year over at eatlog.co.uk, its time to make some changes in my life regarding weight etc - read the scoop on my other site!

Mar 22nd

Crazy Craig's List Applicant

drew: brettschulte: I recently posted an ad on Craig’s List under “Computer Gigs”, and the responses I got make me want to write a book on how not to apply for a job. One guy in particular has been emailing me for two days with such great comedy I had to post it. This is taken from multiple emails after I told him I was Mac focused and not interested he KEPT EMAILING me. Can you believe...

Mar 22nd

8bit goodness

I spent yesterday making 8bit sounding tracks via midi keyboard + synth settings … had some great fun. Nothing deffinate down yet I want to share with everybody, but certainly soon there might be a few tracks I’ll let you here. Also been working on few designs for various project ideas I have… more on those in coming weeks!

Mar 14th

Long Forgotten Sons

Well well well, I’ve been falling behind in everything except work lately. I’ve been mad busy lately hence the no post for a few weeks. Firstly, if I haven’t mentioned it already, I’ve been logging what I eat over at eatlog.co.uk - tell the truth i sometimes skip a cream egg…. but that’s mainly out of shame! I’m making a big plan of attack against my...

Mar 3rd

holidays and ideas

So, I’ve had the last two weeks off from work and spent a week of that in Lanzarote. Got say I had a brilliantly relaxed time and come back brimming with ideas for projects, life, music etc etc. Whilst away I did feel more cut off than I’d have liked but it gave me chance to just reflect on challenges from the last few months and how to move forward with them. Looking forward I have...

Feb 14th

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number crunchin

The past few weeks i’ve been watching @stephenfry’s follower number increase, then after his appearance on @wossy’s program on bbc1 (UK) I noticed the numbers shoot up. More interestingly I’ve noticed it compared to other top people on twitter see here. and I have to wonder where most of Stephen Fry’s followers come from. On the top list, if we ignore...

Feb 1st

Chillax Time

So, its been a while since the last post on here. The reason is simple - mega stupidly busy! Luckily, I now have two weeks off from work, going to Lanzarote for a week on thursday. Really excited about my holiday now, but I’m also already planning my next holiday. My friends and I are going to Cape Town (South Africa) in June for two weeks; should be awesome. Other things going on include...

Jan 31st

Jan 15th

new year begins

After being ill over christmas I was kind of lethargic this week, and im paying for it now by catching up with things and trying to re-do biig mistakes i couldnt afford to make. But on the upside one side-thingy is going well, if you know it, cool, if you dont, i’ll reveal it at some point. Only a small blog post as not got a lot to say. Cool things at CES, dissapointing MacWorld coverage...

Jan 10th

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playing with twitter

I recently had a go of pixly, a twitter combat game which yet again requires a user to log on using twitter credentials. This got me thinking, could it be done without needing the users login? The answer is yes. Using the json public methods its possible to grab a tweeter’s friend list on the client side, which could easily be sent back to the server, requiring only a cookie to track a few...

Jan 4th

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new year, projects, gaps

So everyone’s already said Happy New Year, i’ll leave this sentence as equivalent. The past few months have been fair busy with various bits of side-project ideas and I’ve let some things slip. Most of my side project idea’s end up being private applications for me, I may release a few this year if I clean them up and probably open source them, as I don’t really have...

Jan 1st

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Following habits

(and by following habits i mean twitter, strands, friendfeed, tumblr, google reader) So, again I’m seeing conflicts in the tech space and there’s a clear line which separates the pack. On one side we have the number crowd, they try to sniff out the latest and greatest to try and be associated with it, they don’t really care what ‘it’ is, just as long as they can show...

Dec 28th

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conflicts and arguments

Before i go any futher, this is just a general observation, not a heavily researched piece of babble. It seems to me that over the last few months the industry (and by industry i mean development / web2.0) has been getting more and more divided. I follow a fair few things on twitter but mainly i hammer through a hell of a lot of rss feeds in my google reader for my information and news. What...

Dec 16th

Hosting and Media

Im currently looking at hosting to move an existing project to, need something scalable with a lot of control over apache config … think i may have to start with a virtual machine? Also got my invite to test Windows Azure - so thats some of my time tomorrow gone already. Short and sweet update, also got a few song ideas, will try and remember to write them down!

Dec 4th

pownce, strands, geek

So, yet again I’ve been ignoring some geek stuff. First off, pownce.com closing on the 15th? Well, I haven’t used it much in the last few months but its still gutted to see something like that go down then be closed. But, with the downing of pownce I’m hoping to see more people hit strands.com and as such Ive been sending a few messages around on pownce telling people they can...

Dec 1st

New Laptop, well, netbook

so, i almost bought an iphone then desided to hold off for now. Instead I started looking at other net devices and decided that, although i love my laptop, its usually left on the desk - so maybe a second laptop was a good idea.. Anyway, after futher thought i then decided a laptop, while portable isnt quite as small as i wanted, yet the average umpc allways seem, well, crap. Then i saw it, the...

Oct 30th