What everyone should know about credit files

2016-04-22

There’s a lot of stuff I think everyone should know about how credit files work but not enough people do know. N.B. I’m from the UK, I only know about the UK. This post deals only with how it works in the UK. Credit Scores Your credit score is meaningless…

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Custom HTTP routes in Zend Framework 1 MVC

2015-11-18

Scenario: you’re stuck with Zend 1 (which will support PHP7 - great news for those of us with legacy apps!) and you’re building an API. You’ve got routes like /api/categories, and /api/products but you want to provide some nice, nested resource routes, such as /api/categories/42/products to get all products in…

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Saving time and effort with an SSH config file

2015-01-19

I can’t believe I’ve only recently discovered the benefits of having a config file sitting in ~/.ssh A couple of my Digital Ocean boxes have non-standard SSH ports and it’s a bit of an arse to type it out every time. Example ~/.ssh/config: Host projects HostName bencromwell.co.uk Port 424242 User…

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How to upgrade your Grunt-supported Ember app to 1.9

2014-12-13

Ember 1.9 came out a few days ago, continuing along the path towards HTMLBars. It took me longer than the expected 5 minutes to upgrade HungryBun due to a couple of small issues regarding support for Handlebars 2 in the build tools. I had some problems with npm when trying…

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Ello: the social network with investors and no revenue model

2014-10-25

You may have heard of Ello. It’s a new social network with no users and no revenue model. OK, so it does have a fair amount of users and it continues to grow rapidly by invite. The curious thing about it, though, is their claims that: they’ll never have adverts…

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