http://www.mr-eel.com Sun, 28 Dec 2008 12:03:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en She Said Destroy - This City Speaks in Tongues In my opinion their last LP was seriously under-rated and this LP is even better. Mechanistic and limber, it's fucking vicious. It's got all your metal tropes, but is precise and emotive — a record of tightly controlled and clearly expressed rage. I ... http://www.mr-eel.com/archives/165 So, recently we've learned that Merb will be merged with Rails. This is complete bullshit. I'm strongly opposed to the idea and I think it's a huge mistake. I won't enumerate all the reasons why — I think that's all going to be thrashed to death in the coming days — ... http://www.mr-eel.com/archives/158 For no particular reason, I decided to fiddle about with a bit of Javascript and rebuild my personal/portfolio site. It’s just a single page intended to act as a hub for all stuff I amuse myself with. Check it out, bo! A few mildly interesting things for you web-wonks out there. It ... http://www.mr-eel.com/archives/156 I feel a bit spoiled for good video games. There is so much great stuff about at the moment, I literally don’t have time to play all the ones I want to. A good problem to have. So here's some of the stuff that I’ve enjoyed the most lately. Gears of ... http://www.mr-eel.com/archives/152 I haven’t done this for a little bit and I do like talking about music, so I thought I might go over some of my more recent Metal discoveries. Somehow I’ve found myself listening to more and more Black Metal. Like most forms of music, pretty much all of it is ... http://www.mr-eel.com/archives/145 I’ve used a fair amount of content management systems over the years. They’re all pretty awful. I won’t enumerate over all the reasons, since plenty of other grumpy people have done that already. Instead I thought I might highlight two of the main concerns I have when using a CMS. I’m ... http://www.mr-eel.com/archives/143 Here’s some interesting metaprogramming trix for generating classes at run-time. This is something I had to do recently, so I thought it would worthwhile writing them down — and yes I really did have a good reason for doing this, I swears. So the first thing to note, is the the ... http://www.mr-eel.com/archives/141 It must be hard making shareware software. You go out of your way to build something you think people would like, you compete closely with all the other companies making permutations of your product and do it all with a minimal development or marketing budget. On top of that you ... http://www.mr-eel.com/archives/140 After a long time gestating, my mate Simon and I are finally beginning to push our latest little enterprise onto willing listeners. It’s a net-label. The music releases are variously Drum and Bass, Dubstep, Hip Hop etc. Basically anything with a beats and bass focus — we just like that ... http://www.mr-eel.com/archives/138 Nerd that I am, I spent a few minutes of my Saturday morning playing around with the recently released Nintendo Channel for the Wii. It's pretty dull. Ads for games. Wow. Watching these is like watching any other ad on television — pointless. DS Demos… of old or frankly boring-sounding games — ... http://www.mr-eel.com/archives/135