matt ryall’s weblog: archive

Always envisioning cathedrals since 2002.

Articles

Cakeage and Portal

18 June 2010

What do you use an iPad for?

1 June 2010

Improving JavaScript code with custom events

21 May 2010

Crescents

19 May 2010

Engaging article on Conficker worm

17 May 2010

Shortening content to fit with JavaScript

11 October 2009

Why software quality is important

12 August 2009

On a slow boat to China

11 May 2009

Smart Quotes: library for curly quotes in Java

2 May 2009

Oracle acquires Sun, Java

21 April 2009

The infamous Turkish locale bug

11 February 2009

Wiki visualisations with JavaScript: Processing.js and Raphaël

3 November 2008

HTML 5, headings and sections

7 October 2008

Webjam 8 roundup

26 September 2008

SpringSource has a new business model

23 September 2008

iPhone 2.1 adds SVG support to Mobile Safari

17 September 2008

A small victory for plain English

16 September 2008

Open Web podcasts

10 September 2008

Diffie-Hellman key exchange

3 September 2008

CSS layout fundamentals, part 5: floats

1 September 2008

Viral marketing at work: Nikon D90

29 August 2008

Web pages which track mouse movement

28 August 2008

CSS layout fundamentals, part 4: positioning

27 August 2008

Education and the web

26 August 2008

CSS layout fundamentals, part 3: block and inline boxes

25 August 2008

Intel demonstrates wireless power

24 August 2008

CSS layout fundamentals, part 2: the visual formatting model

23 August 2008

CSS layout fundamentals, part 1: the box model

22 August 2008

Muxtape pulled down by RIAA

20 August 2008

MobileMe doesn’t use SSL but don’t worry

18 August 2008

Don’t talk to the police

16 August 2008

10 things every web developer should know

14 August 2008

Raphaël: the JavaScript vector graphics library

13 August 2008

Flickr’s magical geotagging switch

12 August 2008

Back from Thredbo

11 August 2008

Starbucks in Australia

2 August 2008

Online TV and advertising

29 July 2008

From the archive: iPod shuffle

28 July 2008

iPhone music tips

27 July 2008

iPhone application black market

26 July 2008

Couldn’t care less

25 July 2008

iPhone 3G pros and cons

24 July 2008

Mandarin cheat sheet

20 July 2008

My iPhone story

19 July 2008

Browser market share

17 July 2008

Making Adium look hot

16 July 2008

Still no iPhone for me

15 July 2008

ICFP programming contest 2008

14 July 2008

Benefit #35 of open source software

13 July 2008

Artistic JavaScript

12 July 2008

jQuery filter demo

11 July 2008

Speculating about the price of petrol

10 July 2008

Picking an iPhone plan

9 July 2008

Dustin’s programming problem

8 July 2008

Giant Steps

8 July 2008

Pixar and the shooting of Wall-E

8 July 2008

Awkage: Extracting thread dumps

7 July 2008

Bash history shortcuts

6 July 2008

Catherine the Great

5 July 2008

Recovering from feed bankruptcy

4 July 2008

Coffee strategy

3 July 2008

New URLs

3 July 2008

New typographic features in Firefox 3

2 July 2008

Coding idioms

1 July 2008

Confluence code storm

30 June 2008

Frogger

30 June 2008

iPhoto screen saver photo repetition bug

30 June 2008

Adding a page to Confluence with Python

29 June 2008

Foreign language lunches

28 June 2008

Dialogues

27 June 2008

Monkeys and sales charts

26 June 2008

Beginner’s guide to buying a lens

26 June 2008

Drawing the digital line

25 June 2008

Markdown

24 June 2008

Configuring your favourite hosts in SSH

23 June 2008

Click to edit

22 June 2008

Why I’m writing so much

22 June 2008

Kellogg’s Lego Snacks

21 June 2008

Luxuries and entitlements

21 June 2008

Choosing a default browser

20 June 2008

Sydney Apple store opens

19 June 2008

Listing your photo albums with the Flickr API and jQuery

19 June 2008

Chloe, my new second cousin

18 June 2008

JVM? JDK? JEE? Java technobabble explained

17 June 2008

Gold class

16 June 2008

Be sharp: advice for music transcribers

9 April 2008

Default Content-Type in HTTP

19 March 2008

Unsubscribe me

28 December 2007

Witnessing a break-in

10 October 2007

Awkage: Subversion processing

29 August 2007

HTML tag of the day: VAR

18 August 2007

Viewing man pages as PDF

15 August 2007

Keeping your computer up to date

3 June 2007

Multi-core Java article misses the point

19 May 2007

Sydney Agile group meeting

14 May 2007

Four score and six

20 April 2007

Organisational constraints: recruiting

4 April 2007

Composition in Java: creating a resettable sequential stream

26 March 2007

Composition in Java: sequential stream concatenation

24 March 2007

Public transport woes

14 March 2007

Photos from the US

26 February 2007

Ruby Hashes are cool

14 February 2007

Why Steve Jobs no longer wants DRM

7 February 2007

Snap Preview must die

2 February 2007

Telephone exchange

12 January 2007

Why iPhone smells

11 January 2007

Pimpin’

9 January 2007

My manager’s timesheet

27 December 2006

Blink

22 December 2006

Spring presentations at JavaPolis

21 December 2006

JavaPolis days 1 and 2

19 December 2006

Europe trip: the flight and London

18 December 2006

Increasing P-plater fatalities

5 December 2006

Inappropriate advertisements

4 December 2006

Movember at Atlassian

30 November 2006

The end for buzzword bingo?

24 November 2006

Free Java

16 November 2006

IDEA’s go-faster flag

10 November 2006

Google’s content binge

1 November 2006

Easy iTunes library synchronisation

5 October 2006

Parallels

28 September 2006

Internet history

27 September 2006

Blueberry pancakes

27 August 2006

Airport evacuation in Wagga Wagga

21 August 2006

Origin of the ampersand

19 August 2006

Apple keyboard shortcuts

19 August 2006

Enter the Mac

16 August 2006

No security at the gym

14 August 2006

Back from holidays

14 August 2006

Ransom note typography

17 July 2006

What wikis aren’t

17 July 2006

Two-factor authentication for websites: expensive and useless

13 July 2006

Anti-portfolio

15 June 2006

Shell scripting: getting exit status from a piped command

15 June 2006

Google maps Australia

22 May 2006

Spamtcha

18 May 2006

Tomcat and Apache documentation

17 May 2006

Economist via RSS

17 May 2006

Orwell and the English language

1 May 2006

Load balancing with Tomcat and mod_jk

12 April 2006

Hoff-auth: too much awesome for any application

12 April 2006

How To Be A Successful Evil Overlord

12 April 2006

Universities: working towards irrelevance

12 April 2006

SOAP::Lite tip

4 April 2006

Intellectual property hall of shame

20 March 2006

Mozilla Firefox 1.5

1 December 2005

One example of Web 2.0 integration

21 October 2005

Intelligent software design

19 October 2005

A List Apart: Ambient Findability

12 October 2005

Knock Knock

5 October 2005

They call this security?

27 September 2005

Rhymes with Ditty

22 September 2005

New user interface for Microsoft Office 12

15 September 2005

Spolsky and software design

22 August 2005

The future of enterprise web development

22 August 2005

Kung Pao Pork

16 August 2005

Mozilla creates corporate arm

4 August 2005

Can someone please explain …

27 July 2005

Two great articles on the business of software

26 July 2005

Blog titles vs wiki titles

25 July 2005

London in trouble again?

21 July 2005

How to lose readers

20 July 2005

The public eye

13 July 2005

Del.icio.us

13 July 2005

Too many choices

13 July 2005

Swedish pizza salad

10 July 2005

The next thing

8 July 2005

Resilience

8 July 2005

Photos from the 7/7 attacks

8 July 2005

Terrorist blasts in London

7 July 2005

Tip: import explicitly

1 July 2005

Mediatinker on clothes

1 July 2005

Umlauts

1 July 2005

Spin

8 June 2005

Apple to use Intel chips

7 June 2005

Flickr

5 June 2005

Internet Explorer 7

17 May 2005

Whose home run?

10 May 2005

Pragmatic documentation

6 May 2005

Test speed limits

29 March 2005

Extreme refactoring?

29 March 2005

Java’s awful DNS caching

23 March 2005

Software craftsmanship

21 March 2005

After many years of research, Apple scientists have discovered…

17 March 2005

Goodbye Firefox?

17 March 2005

My friend the developer

17 March 2005

Java IDE discussion

17 March 2005

RSS software distribution

17 March 2005

Tail multiple files

3 March 2005

Before Common Era

2 March 2005

More on Google Autolink

1 March 2005

Google Autolink: taking away moral rights

28 February 2005

Microsoft’s spyware tool revisited

18 February 2005

Getting real: a development process

14 February 2005

Wanted: RSS feed of Australian news

18 January 2005

Microsoft’s spyware removal tool

13 January 2005

Mac mini

12 January 2005

Thoughts on version control

12 January 2005

Swedish word of the day: förklara

17 December 2004

Firefox in the NY Times

17 December 2004

iPod CSS guide

16 December 2004

Swedish word of the day: självklart

15 December 2004

Semantic diffs with XML

15 December 2004

Oi Matt, where’s the search?

24 October 2004

Mark dives out

20 October 2004

SP2 and Digital Rights Management

19 October 2004

New blog: Human Natures

15 October 2004

Going, going

14 October 2004

Real democracy: the show

13 October 2004

Real democracy

13 October 2004

Accounting for my salary

7 October 2004

Subject-verb agreement

7 October 2004

New hosting

7 October 2004

US Congress proposes bill to allow torture

30 September 2004

RSS change

28 September 2004

Microsoft goes to Canberra

28 September 2004

Why Perl rocks

28 September 2004

Imminent change

21 September 2004

Get Firefox 1.0 PR

21 September 2004

Synchronising over FTP with Perl

20 September 2004

Breaking the 137GB barrier

20 September 2004

The accounting equation

16 September 2004

Developing an accounting system

16 September 2004

You say WHAT?

13 September 2004

Kittenfight

10 September 2004

Milgram experiment

9 September 2004

We got style

8 September 2004

Disk space

7 September 2004

Westbus woes

7 September 2004

Naming conventions

7 September 2004

Girlfriends

6 September 2004

Office space

6 September 2004

Catching up

13 August 2004

When it rains, it pours

11 August 2004

Intellectual property and the FTA

11 August 2004

On Microsoft and me

4 July 2004

Work in progress, continued

12 June 2004

Work in progress

7 June 2004

Nice

6 June 2004

Barcelona photos

31 May 2004

New photos: Paris and Cap d’Agde

18 May 2004

Barcelona

16 May 2004

Paris, c’est fantastique!

30 April 2004

New photos: Italy

29 April 2004

Slovenian greetings

14 March 2004

Adjö, Sweden

20 January 2004

Happy New Year from Edinburgh

3 January 2004

Travel photos

29 December 2003

Making bad smells worse

9 July 2003

Open Space

30 June 2003

Wiki

12 June 2003

Software

28 March 2003

War begins

20 March 2003

XML

20 March 2003

It’s been a while …

14 March 2003

Holidays

10 December 2002

Alive!

30 November 2002

No more holidays

28 July 2002

Project ends

26 July 2002

Frequency

13 July 2002

XP and Exams

24 June 2002

Open All Night

12 June 2002

Retrospective, Part II

8 June 2002

Slum Survivor

7 June 2002

Retrospective

7 June 2002

Changing rooms

5 May 2002

Eugenics movement

3 May 2002

Comments, Gomez Review

3 May 2002

A little jazz

25 April 2002

Style

20 April 2002

Hello Stranger

12 April 2002

Happy Easter

30 March 2002

Where’s My Drink?!

19 March 2002

News

12 March 2002

Uni, Music & Movies

8 March 2002

First post!

3 March 2002

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Photography

Europe trip 2004

Software

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