Thingy Ma Jig is the blog of Nicholas Thompson and contains any useful tips, sites and general blog-stuff which are considered interesting or handy!
Just over 2 weeks since we started, my friend, Janak, and I have just finished our 3rd round of Drupal Wallpaper Photoshop Tennis.
If you haven't heard about this yet, the principal is to take a theme or idea and keep bouncing designs back and forth and at the end, a winner is decided.
Read more to see all the wallpaper previews until now.
01 January 2008
programming
Drupal
announcement
It has come to my attention, thanks to Hass, that GlobalRedirect apears to have issues when running under Windows web server, IIS. Unfortunately, I do not use IIS but I am aware that a few members of the community do.
31 December 2007
YADS
mobile phone
k850i
free
Any regulars to this site will know that...
So logically I want to customize mine to make it a little different from everyone else's K850i... Bring on Themes4UrMobilePhone.com!
17 December 2007
free
Drupal
design
After Matt Farnia posted about the utter lack of Drupal Wallpapers, my friend and I decided to have a Photoshop Tennis contest.
08 November 2007
programming
linux
How to
geek
cool
Following on from my previous post about how to check how many apache processes are running - I recently wanted to find out exactly how much memory my applications where using… So I did a little research and found a few new and useful commands!
26 October 2007
mobile phone
k850i
Is anyone else getting dark photo's when they use the flash on the K850i? I'm sitting here taking exactly the same photo over and over and getting different results. It seems th brightness of the flash varies (it's actually a visibly bigger and brighter flash sometimes)…
25 October 2007
programming
linux
geek
Drupal
cool
apache
Recently at work we had been having issues with spiking server load. One of the potential suspects was the Apache configuration as it was allowing 256 MaxClients. Combine that with Drupal eating RAM for breakfast (say a minimum of 12Mb per page) and you have a recipe for disaster - too many visitors cause a RAM shortage, lots of swapping and eventually a server meltdown. After speaking the Rackspace Technical Support Team, one of the guys there (Daniel) wrote a VERY useful script for us to run on the server to monitor Apache usage.
23 October 2007
review
mobile phone
k850i
K800i
Well it arrived last week and so far I've been nothing but impressed - 10/10!
I've also fairly recently moved home and thus my old commute to Canon Street is no more! I now (if I walk) get to go past tourist attractions such as St Pauls, Blackfriars Bridge and down towards Waterloo (where the internationally famous London Eye stands tall). During this walk I took some photos with my 'old' k800i and was reasonably impressed with them (factoring in that it is primarily a phone). After getting my new k850i I decided to walk the route again and take some more shots - a like-for-like comparison!
10 October 2007
mobile phone
k850i
free
I just got off the phone with the O2 Upgrades team. I suggested that I was interested in either the Nokia N95 OR the Sony Ericsson k850i. I was informed that neither the N95 or k850i could not be done for free on the budget/contract I was asking for so I asked to be put through to the retention team. After being on hold for a few minutes the call was retrieved from the abyss that was the call waiting queue and I got a good offer…
02 October 2007
programming
Drupal
I was browsing around the Devel Module the other day and I noticed a few functions that are not mentioned in any documentation that I've seen but make life even easier, as if Devel doesn't make it easy enough! Almost everyone that's used Devel will be familiar with dprint_r (A debug version of the popular print_r function in PHP). Well who has used these ones?