I'm running in circles this morning

If you were expecting replies to comments or emails between yesterday morning and today, then I apologise, because watching Tom Cruise being Awesome and Stuff Blowing Up with tisme and lproven occupied the majority of last night.

Normal service will be resumed this evening, unless I can't be bothered, in which case the weekend!

Interesting Links for 12-01-2012

• Why the Raspberry Pi computer won't be built in the UK
  (tags: computers uk manufacturing )
• This Photograph Is Not Free
  (tags: photography business copyright )
• Some decent numbers on how often Scottish MPs would have changed control of the UK government
  (tags: scotland politics uk )
• The smartphone CPU wars are about to begin
  (tags: mobilephones intel ARM cpu technology )
• Teams of 32 people produce code at the same rate as teams of four people.
  (tags: development projectmanagement computers code productivity )
• Ten 100-year predictions that came true
  (tags: future technology 1900 prediction history )

We don't get pizza adverts like this in the UK

Frankly, I'm boggled that you get them anywhere.

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Fixing my own bugs

miss_s_b started using my link poster, and I was talking her through it over email and getting very confused as to why she couldn't set up a repeated/daily post. After going round in circles for a bit she emailed me some screengrabs, and I stared at them, trying to work out why the fuck the scheduled posting section might be entirely missing.

So I sat down this evening and fixed it in about 30 seconds flat. I had my check for whether a person could post a repeated job set up as "userdata.IsAdmin" rather than "userdata.loggedIn" and as I am an admin, I never saw a difference - if I was logged in, I could see the repeated posting option, if I wasn't I couldn't. So, I assumed that it was correctly showing it for all logged in users rather than just me. D'oh!

Thankfully, fixing that kind of thing and pushing it to app engine is dead easy, and now it should work correctly for anyone that's logged in.

Also, I added some instructions on getting up and running, so that there were clear steps as to what to try in what order.

Next up, allowing people to set up multiple posts, and more easily disable a running post (it's fiddly at the moment), and then I might actually publicise it!