The lead developer at Mosaic, Brighton with a passion for web application development and motorcycles.Tumblr (3.0; @holywell)http://blog.simonholywell.com/I love vim and its very handy shortcuts, but I also like to be in a GUI IDE for most of my...http://blog.simonholywell.com/post/19625188250http://blog.simonholywell.com/post/19625188250Tue, 20 Mar 2012 13:20:00 +0000computingcommand linenetbeansvimI have written a two part article for this months .net magazine detailing how easy it is to write a...http://blog.simonholywell.com/post/16996367387http://blog.simonholywell.com/post/16996367387Fri, 03 Feb 2012 23:07:54 +0000node.jscomputinginternetWhen installing a UDF recently I got an annoying error message, which didn&#8217;t seem to want to...http://blog.simonholywell.com/post/16814912867http://blog.simonholywell.com/post/16814912867Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:47:00 +0000mysqludfcomputinginternetWhen I began using Cloudno.de recently to have a go at Node.js and CouchDB I stored my username and...http://blog.simonholywell.com/post/12006260006http://blog.simonholywell.com/post/12006260006Thu, 27 Oct 2011 23:21:00 +0100node.jsinternetcomputingcommand linePHP extension writing: PHP Extensions Made Eldrich: Since writing my 15 Excellent Resources for PHP...http://blog.simonholywell.com/post/11944070565http://blog.simonholywell.com/post/11944070565Wed, 26 Oct 2011 09:56:45 +0100php extensionphp extensionsphpinternetcomputing<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltjn5ri0rb1qb2lcto1_500.jpg"/><br/> Marco Simoncelli<br/><br/> <img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltjn5ri0rb1qb2lcto2_500.jpg"/><br/> 'Super Sic' in full flight<br/><br/> <img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltjn5ri0rb1qb2lcto3_500.jpg"/><br/> Marco Simoncelli´s box, San Carlo Honda<br/><br/> <p>The world has lost an excellent and exciting rider in <a href="http://www.marcosimoncelli.it/" target="_blank">Marco Simoncelli</a>. He was a true character. RIP #58.</p> <p>You can leave a <a href="http://www.motogp.com/en/news/2011/malaysia+sepang+motogp+simoncelli+succumbs+to+injuries" target="_blank">tribute</a> on the <a href="http://www.motogp.com/en/news/2011/malaysia+sepang+motogp+simoncelli+succumbs+to+injuries" target="_blank">MotoGP website</a>.</p>http://blog.simonholywell.com/post/11842512545http://blog.simonholywell.com/post/11842512545Mon, 24 Oct 2011 01:10:39 +0100motorsbikesMotoGPNode.js and CouchDB feel like they were made for each other right from the very first time I used...http://blog.simonholywell.com/post/11732974951http://blog.simonholywell.com/post/11732974951Fri, 21 Oct 2011 15:47:17 +0100CouchDBNode.jscomputinginternet<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltevijqz3x1qb2lcto1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><b>PHP elephants</b></p>http://blog.simonholywell.com/post/11728272214http://blog.simonholywell.com/post/11728272214Fri, 21 Oct 2011 15:23:09 +0100Recently (well in a loose sense anyway) I had the need to build a document bank in PHP for a client...http://blog.simonholywell.com/post/7611324730http://blog.simonholywell.com/post/7611324730Thu, 14 Jul 2011 13:17:00 +0100phpphp_ssdeepphp extensionphp extensionscomputingI have ended up with a very old piece of hardware and of course the first thing I did was wipe the...http://blog.simonholywell.com/post/6801049104http://blog.simonholywell.com/post/6801049104Wed, 22 Jun 2011 21:33:00 +0100linux<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lmk50lJZM01qbd38ro1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>I remember watching trains from this bridge when I first arrived in Edinburgh from Australia. It was cold then too!</p> <p><a href="http://nationalgeographicdaily.tumblr.com/post/6375638339" target="_blank">nationalgeographicdaily</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><strong>Children Watching Train, Edninburgh</strong></p> <p><em><strong>Photograph by Vishal Soniji</strong></em></p> <p>This photo was taken during my visit to Edinburgh as I was on my way to Edinburgh Castle.</p> </blockquote>http://blog.simonholywell.com/post/6379793525http://blog.simonholywell.com/post/6379793525Fri, 10 Jun 2011 09:55:51 +0100<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lm6r0mzsBx1qh6u46o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Ah, so eloquent!</p> <p><a href="http://jeffreyshek.tumblr.com/post/6121766086" target="_blank">jeffreyshek</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Only in Scotland. Photo taken by a friend of mine.</p> </blockquote>http://blog.simonholywell.com/post/6137455855http://blog.simonholywell.com/post/6137455855Fri, 03 Jun 2011 10:14:35 +0100motorsCarsrantsnecora-markus: Released a new version of the Agavi framework support plugin for the shiny new...http://blog.simonholywell.com/post/5216849327http://blog.simonholywell.com/post/5216849327Thu, 05 May 2011 13:32:00 +0100internetagavinetbeans<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lklrzqofRc1qzpsi6o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://www.supercars.net/Pics?v=y&s=c&id=5329&p=2011_AlfaRomeo_TZ3Stradale2.jpg" target="_blank">TZ3 Stradale</a></p>http://blog.simonholywell.com/post/5216796780http://blog.simonholywell.com/post/5216796780Thu, 05 May 2011 13:28:59 +0100motorsCars<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lkcsjeuexo1qb2lcto1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Whilst the wedding is a great event for the participants, I am not interested in the slightest. However William was seen last night out on his motorbike in less than adequate gear (<a href="http://www.bytebrothers.org/SquidTest.htm" target="_blank">squidding</a>) and confirming his <a href="http://www.sponkit.com/prince-william-leaves-on-his-black-ducati/" target="_blank">continued</a> <a href="http://www.visordown.com/motorcycle-news--general-news/prince-william-orders-17k-ducati-1198sp-superbike/15601.html" target="_blank">love</a> for Ducati - some would say at the cost of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triumph_Motorcycles_Ltd#Hinckley_production" target="_blank">Hinckley</a>. Triumph being the only mass produced British rival to the big Duke.</p>http://blog.simonholywell.com/post/5008159866http://blog.simonholywell.com/post/5008159866Thu, 28 Apr 2011 09:21:13 +0100motorsbikesWhy won't ssh-agent save my unencrypted key for later use?: I recently was annoyed by always having...http://blog.simonholywell.com/post/4953911893http://blog.simonholywell.com/post/4953911893Tue, 26 Apr 2011 12:09:00 +0100sshubuntulinux<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lgm7bnzPeg1qads8no1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://hotvvheels.tumblr.com/post/3686708737" target="_blank">hotvvheels</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://coolisacolor.tumblr.com/post/3292699430" target="_blank">Cool is a Color</a></p> </blockquote>http://blog.simonholywell.com/post/3741955696http://blog.simonholywell.com/post/3741955696Wed, 09 Mar 2011 13:18:13 +0000Installing Gearman is pretty easy as there are packages for it in Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install...http://blog.simonholywell.com/post/3233636953http://blog.simonholywell.com/post/3233636953Fri, 11 Feb 2011 14:01:00 +0000gearmanphpubuntudebianApachePHP Hangs When Fed 2.2250738585072011e-308: A pretty horrible bug when you assign the number...http://blog.simonholywell.com/post/2595750059http://blog.simonholywell.com/post/2595750059Tue, 04 Jan 2011 14:25:00 +0000phpinternetFullOctane: Bike and Car Blog: I have setup a site to post all my automotive related discoveries....http://blog.simonholywell.com/post/2575996048http://blog.simonholywell.com/post/2575996048Mon, 03 Jan 2011 03:20:00 +0000FullOctanebikesCarsmotorsinternet