All of the content from recurser.com (blog posts, static pages, code repositories, git/svn etc) has been migrated over to the main “recursive-design.com”:/ site. If you’re reading this from the old recurser.com RSS feed, please update the feed address - sorry for the inconvenience! You can find the new feed at recursive-design.com/feed/ . The old feed will continue for a few weeks, but will eventually be turned off. I’m planning on posting a lot more regularly from now on, so if you aren’t a subscriber yet now would be a great time to start !...

It’s relatively easy to get the feed for your Jekyll site running on FeedBurner. Firstly, you need to choose a subdirectory to host your feed on. Calling it feed seems to be a fairly popular choice, so I decided to follow the crowd. Create a folder called feed at the base of your Jekyll site, and create an index.xml file inside with the following contents (obviously swapping the references to Recursive for your own site details) : ...

I just spent 30 minutes trying to get login via public key working on a new server, and here’s a few tips that I wish I knew earlier : ...

Today I’m very happy to announce the launch of my new site Previously my open-source code, company information and blog posts had been spread over several different sites. All this various content will be consolidated into a single site here over the next couple of months, which will hopefully allow me to focus more on doing what I love - building beautiful apps, and hacking on open-source code. I’m also hoping to set a regular blogging schedule, so stay tuned for more posts and announcements!...

This is easy to do, but I always forget how to do it, so this is more a reminder to myself than anything else. To create and checkout a branch in git : ...

First, you need to make sure you are using java 1.6. I’m told this method will only work on 64-bit leopard machines, so your mileage may vary. In the finder, browse to /Applications/Utilities and open Java Preferences.app . ...

First, we need to get the latest version of nginx : > wget http://nginx.org/download/nginx-0.8.34.tar.gz > tar xvzf nginx-0.8.34.tar.gz > cd nginx-0.8.34 Next, configure it to support ssl, gzip, flv streaming and real-ip. I generally compile it to /opt/nginx-YYMMDD (change the –prefix setting if you want to put it somewhere else) : ...

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To find out if Ubuntu is 32 bit or 64 bit, run uname : uname -m x86_64 = 64 bit i686 = 32 bit

I keep having to look this up to add multiverse repositories (courtesy of tuxicity). ...