Guernplan game 10 has ended

A good game, I'm sure everyone will agree.  Featured the fascists taking an early lead while early combat raged between the birds, fascists, feds and robots.  A strike from the empire saw the rebels homeworld fall, as well as the feds losing a base to the robots.  Unfortunately after this early fighting three players left the game leaving the empire, robots and rebels to combat each other and the dominate cplayer.

Go and check the record of game 10.

debtbusterloans.com gets AJAX

We've finally had a break-through with our largest website - with my addition of AJAX validation and automatic searching for addresses we have improved the CTE by about 30%.

Take a look new site design.

5 steps to get you started with rails migrations

Rails migrations are brilliant. I say this because until now I had heard of them, seen articles about them and like poor misguided VB programmers I had completely ignored them. They make loads of potentially tricky database migration, rollback and versioning issues a doddle but mainly (from my point of view) they mean I can develop more in ruby and less in SQL. This makes my development faster, easier and more standardised which in turn makes my life simpler, calmer and more fun - everybody wins. Honestly they do.

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XBOX Customer Service?

Well the courier has finally taken my red-rings-of-death XBOX 360 away. The machine itself broke just before Christmas - that's Christmas 2006! After more than 10 phone calls to support there have been at least 8 failed attempts to send me box labels by email and two failed attempts to send them by regular post. I'll wait with baited breath to see if the b@stard machine ever turns up again. Fingers crossed.

MYSTERY BOX - ebaying for charity!

I've entered a charity event somebody at work is running and in a bid to get the highest priced ebay item I'm shamelessly linking to my site everywhere I can.

It's a charity event raising funds for the NSPCC! The aim is to sell a £5 item from a charity shop on ebay - to make even more money for charity. This item is a Mystery Box the content of which will only be revealed to the winning bidder! Good luck!