my charity: water campaign
Please go to http://mycharitywater.org/phil26 and help raise money for people who are suffering without clean water.
Posted by Phil Burrows on Feb 26, 2010
New Christmas EP from The Merry Gentlemen's Club
I now present you with the NEW Christmas EP ( here) from my holiday band, The Merry Gentlemen’s Club!! Enjoy!
Posted by Phil Burrows on Dec 16, 2009
The Merry Gentlemen's Club - New Song (Lover's Choral)
Uhm, it’s Christmas time, which means new music from The Merry Gentlemen’s Club (me and Josh Hollis). Enjoy the first song from the upcoming EP:
Posted by Phil Burrows on Dec 11, 2009
Daily Design - Explosions In The Sky
As promised, my latest daily design foray into motion graphics: all with Webkit CSS Transitions.
28 September 2009 – “Explosions In The Sky” by peburrows, on Flickr
Posted by Phil Burrows on Sep 29, 2009
Rails Logging With MongoDB
I've been playing with MongoDB a bit lately, and have been pretty impressed both with its simplicity and usefulness. There seem to be quite a few uses for a document-oriented DB, and, as the MongoDB team mentioned on their blog, logging is one of those things that MongoDB is perfectly suited for.Posted by Phil Burrows on Sep 28, 2009
Daily Design - City And Colour
Nothing much here, just my daily design for Sunday, September 13, 2009.
13 September 2009 – “City And Colour” by Phil Burrows (peburrows), on Flickr
Posted by Phil Burrows on Sep 16, 2009
Daily Design Update
After a very long [unplanned] hiatus, I finally started doing a bit of daily design again (see this post for a bit of background).
It’s been good to get back into it a bit, so I thought I would share some of my latest creations. In case you can’t tell, I’ve been going with a band / music theme. As with the first time around, this forced creativity has been easy at times, and horribly difficult at others. What follows are the past three days in this experiment.
Posted by Phil Burrows on Aug 21, 2009
Goodbye OtherInbox, hello Gmail IMAP via Ruby
For a while now, I’ve used (and, for the most part, loved) OtherInbox. It’s a really handy service – just create a new email address for each site instead of giving out your main address for those sites to sell and then spam. But I’ve been using it since the beta, and have been increasingly annoyed by certain features that have been removed or withheld from the free account. For example, IMAP access is only available to pay accounts, as is the ability to read any message you received more than 30 days ago.
I’m not faulting OtherInbox for this – I get it, they need to make a profit. Heck, I would probably take the same approach they have. But, I finally decided there was a better solution for me. So goodbye OtherInbox, hello to the exact same functionality (and then some) via Gmail. Let me explain…
Posted by Phil Burrows on Jul 17, 2009
Never change your hashing algorithm. Please.
I'm not the first to say this (http://www.cubik.org/mirrors/taligent/Docs/books/WM/WM_144.html), but it needs to be said again: Please, never change your hashing algorithm. I'm looking at you memcache-client ruby gem...Posted by Phil Burrows on May 18, 2009
Comment Away
After over a year of promising it, I finally sat down last night to enable comments on this "blog" of mine. Turns out, the process was actually pretty easy and painless, and there was really no reason I shouldn't have done it earlier (except for the fact that I doubt anyone will actually care about commenting on this thing).Posted by Phil Burrows on Mar 31, 2009