From the monthly archives:

August 2009

Entrepreneurial Inspiration

August 31, 2009

Photo: I love the idea…
I just thought I would share a few books and such that I’ve read or am reading which are providing entrepreneurial inspiration for me at the moment.

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Free iPhone development screencast

August 25, 2009

To celebrate the launch of Mobile Orchard Screencasts they are giving away the first one free for a week.
It is a seven minute long screencast about running code on the iPhone.
Get it while it’s hot, in a weeks time it’ll cost you $5.

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LWP::UserAgent and SSL

August 21, 2009

I’ve just spent the best part of a day, banging my head, trying to figure out why I couldn’t get LWP::UserAgent to connect to a URL (which happened to be an https url). I was looking at headers, manually in the browser, tried sending the request through a proxy, and finally, earlier today I [...]

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Become a Perl rockstar… AKA Perl link dump

August 20, 2009

Photo: I’m not a rockstar I’m a poseur.
I’m coding quite a lot of Perl again at the moment and I’ve been saving quite a lot of interesting Perl links to my delicious account which I’m going to share with you. They probably won’t make you a rockstar but it might improve your Perl knowledge. [...]

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Textmate and Git

August 20, 2009

If you’ve installed git and use textmate you may receive errors about git not being installed correctly until you do the following:

run “which git” on the command line and note the output.
in textmate write “echo $PATH” and check to see that the path returned from which git is present – in my case it was
Open [...]

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Name servers updated, 301 redirects in place…

August 17, 2009

Just a quick update to say that the conversion-matters.co.uk name servers have been updated to point here and 301 redirects are in place to hopefully redirect content from the old blog to here.
Any wonkyness, leave a comment.
Also, I’ve redirect /feed to the new feedburner feed http://feeds.feedburner.com/adamjctaylor/asdf, so if you subscribed in the last couple of [...]

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Welcome to 2009 – Conversion Matters is dead, long live Conversion Matters

August 12, 2009

[I wrote this six months ago but it has taken me six months to sort out servers and generally find some spare time - sigh...]
Hello everyone; welcome to 2009. Conversion Matters has evolved!
This blog has been dormant for a few months now while I’ve been busy learning about software engineering and as such have [...]

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