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Inviqa We'll raffle an iPad amongst our first 1000 followers! For TCs click inviqa.com/home/terms-and… 3:10 AM May 22nd via HootSuite Retweeted by andytson and 10 others
Ibuildings UK has changed it's name to Inviqa, see inviqa.com/about/faqs for details 3:21 AM May 22nd via web
@louisedoherty ah yes, but they also deserve a few more hours free time a day :) Not that I haven't done productive things in my own 4 hrs. 1:41 AM May 22nd via Twitter for iPhone in reply to louisedoherty
@louisedoherty I know how it feels. Hoping to move soon though. 12:36 AM May 22nd via Twitter for iPhone in reply to louisedoherty
@Joe_Gardiner s/recipe/cookbook/ community.opscode.com/cookbooks/apac… 8:33 AM May 5th via web in reply to Joe_Gardiner
@Joe_Gardiner apache does that as well, Ubuntu by default, and chef recipe apache2 will change CentOS to do it 8:32 AM May 5th via web in reply to Joe_Gardiner
@cardillator the links have been fixed 1:15 AM May 5th via web in reply to cardillator
@paulmaunders @Joe_Gardiner github.com/jedi4ever/veew… is good for creating vagrant base boxes. Pick a definition and it'll install the os & pkg 2:02 PM May 3rd via web in reply to paulmaunders
@paulmaunders @Joe_Gardiner yep, we're using it at work. Also got it for Webtatic to test changes and build packages for CentOS 5/6. 1:52 PM May 3rd via web in reply to paulmaunders
@Joe_Gardiner Also if not already, use provisioning tools like chef/puppet so you can recreate the system easily. 1:36 PM May 3rd via web in reply to Joe_Gardiner
@Joe_Gardiner keep things simple. Also avoid adding single points of failure. 1:33 PM May 3rd via web in reply to Joe_Gardiner
CzDuck Brilliant election related photo sent to me by my mother (source unknown): lockerz.com/s/206152618 11:04 AM May 3rd via Echofon Retweeted by andytson
@samsoir acceptance test before build? I guess a limitation of the emulator? 10:17 PM Apr 25th via web in reply to samsoir
@ithinkihaveacat @blongden some REST questions answered by using a fully fledged protocol like OData. A bit overkill maybe for our situation 6:30 AM Apr 24th via web in reply to ithinkihaveacat
hmm, Symfony2 bundle installation process: copy this to this file, copy this to this file, copy... 7:00 AM Apr 15th via web
@akrabat @paulmatthews86 looks to me like mysqli only supports client-side scrollable cursors. The same (but lower memory) as a PHP array 2:27 AM Apr 8th via web in reply to akrabat
@zenonhannick yay, made you tweet! twice? 6:52 AM Mar 25th via web in reply to zenonhannick
@le6o good luck. Did you know I helped build that website? 11:50 PM Mar 24th via Twitter for iPad in reply to le6o
@rowan_m @thijsferyn risk management, or how to dig your own grave? 12:19 PM Mar 15th via web in reply to rowan_m
@rowan_m @thijsferyn good film, that tweet might have set in motion the possibility of me re-watching it also 12:04 PM Mar 15th via web in reply to rowan_m

Name Andy Thompson
Location UK, south
Web http://andytson.com/
Bio Technical Team Lead/Software Engineer on enterprise web projects, with interests in open-source development, a little bit of finance, and poker