Hello, I’m Barry Frost. I live in Windsor in the UK where I’m CTO of Global Personals and lead the globaldev team. Read more about me or this site.

My latest article is ‘Switching from Chrome to Safari’, posted 14 November.

1. 19 May

   1. 22:02

      Forest, Villa and now Chelsea have won this thing. Arsenal, time to join them.

   2. 21:35

      Right, Abramovich, time to take your money out of Chelsea. You've achieved what you wanted.

2. 18 May

   1. 13:51

      telyHD

      TV appliance for Skype calls on a TV without a computer

3. 17 May

   1. 10:10

      redis-faina

      Query analysis tool for Redis, built by Instagram developers

   2. 10:09

      The Toolbox

      Directory of useful single-page sites, tools, widgets and apps for web site developers.

   3. 10:08

      MapBox

      Map service with free and commercial licensing. Used by Foursquare. Tile creation tool.

4. 16 May

   1. 08:59

      Looking to buy a flashy, premium PC desktop (not for me, of course) but no idea where to start. Recommendations?

5. 15 May

   1. 13:36

      .@github Pages has been a bit flaky recently. Our stats show two hours of downtime in total in the last week.

6. 13 May

   1. 21:59

      Lineker asking Hansen if he's ever seen anything like today. 26 May 1989 at Anfield he certainly did... #motd

   2. 16:33

      Happy St Totteringham's Day, Spuds! Amazing day of football all round.

   3. 14:08

      BBQ in the sun by the sea. Perfect. t.co/nWeLk147

   4. 12:05

      Yarrr #hastings t.co/2IEs8LmC

   5. 12:03

      Hairy cow t.co/oj8WpXP5

7. 10 May

   1. 16:18

      Champagne in the @globalpersonals London office to celebrate the Smooch acquisition t.co/JSG9LrIe

   2. 13:20

      How to use jQuery with a JSON Flickr feed to display photos

   3. 12:04

      Big dating industry news today: we've acquired t.co/x5DsjBjA: t.co/TYW1sx11

   4. 10:10

      Useful maps and advice for dealing with the inevitable travel chaos during the Olympics t.co/PiuZOzBZ

8. 09 May

   1. 20:40

      CSS Arrows

   2. 20:38

      jQuery Knob

      Knobs, dials and segments

   3. 13:07

      An even better guide (with tables!) on the distinction between a blog and its posts: t.co/9jBixGpG

   4. 13:05

      When is a blog not a blog? When it's a sodding blog post! Alas, @gyford is probably fighting a losing battle: t.co/aWc7xtTb

9. 08 May

   1. 08:29

      2 hours and counting in this taxi. London + cars = pain.

10. 07 May

    1. 21:37

       I love the classy bullseye Arsenal logo that's part of the new kit campaign t.co/cr5FodAG (hi-res version made by @arsenalreport)

    2. 16:50

       Openreach - Superfast fibre broadband - Where and when

       BT's postcode checker to see when fibre broadband is coming to your area.

11. 04 May

    1. 20:52

       Listening to Beastie Boys. RIP Adam Yauch.

    2. 18:53

       Neighbours are on holiday so it's play-songs-loud night at Frost Towers. @larrylou100 has selected Mel and Kim's Respectable. Shameful.

12. 03 May

    1. 12:25

       Google Maps free alternatives

    2. 12:25

       Leaflet

       JavaScript library for interactive maps by CloudMade. Uses OpenStreetMap.

    3. 11:17

       RailsConf 2012 Schedule

       Videos of the RailsConf presentations, including DHH's keynote

    4. 10:58

       Bookmarked: t.co/4WxoYBcb #euro2012

13. 02 May

    1. 16:30

       Planscope

       Project Management Software for Freelance Web Developers (another Basecamp-y PM system)

    2. 16:12

       Flowdock

       Team inbox and chat for dev teams - a bit like Campfire with social integration.

    3. 15:22

       Join me and sponsor Brian Blessed's world record Space Hopper bounce attempt for the very worthy Cystic Fibrosis Trust t.co/eFPp8yDS

    4. 12:15

       Best part of working in our London office: lunch from Lower Marsh market. Today was a Chicken Keema burrito from Chula t.co/M78URI0Q

14. 28 April

    1. 16:39

       "Moms We’d Like To Fund"

       Advocates targeting your startup's product/service at families and parents. Social media usage and app buying by US mums massively rising.

15. 27 April

    1. 09:33

       I wish @guardian's mobile site had proper page titles rather than "m.guardian.co.uk", especially when I Instapaper articles on my phone.

16. 26 April

    1. 15:20

       bit.ly: Metrics - Building Clickatron

       How bit.ly stores analytics in its Clickatron system

    2. 15:03

       Marked Bonus Pack (scripts, commands and bundles)

       Using Marked with popular editors and code watchers

    3. 14:57

       formd

       Tool to convert inline Markdown to referenced Markdown and vice versa

    4. 14:01

       RT @easyjo: INTERNET: t.co/rhnkk3W1 via @jongilbraith

17. 25 April

    1. 13:14

       Maido

       London Facebook/mobile/web agency

18. 24 April

    1. 20:23

       Conflicted: I hate Chelsea and would hate for them to win the Champions' League, but can't help wanting them to keep Barcelona out.

    2. 14:55

       If your business depends on its payment gateway for online payments an outage isn't merely an "inconvenience" it means you're losing money.

19. 23 April

    1. 16:08

       RT @globaldev: What other open-source maintainers can learn from @antirez about customer engagement t.co/sgAALRdY

20. 20 April

    1. 10:00

       redis_failover

       ZooKeeper-based automatic master/slave failover solution for Redis in Ruby

    2. 09:59

       Atelier Olschinsky’s Cities Series

21. 18 April

    1. 17:01

       RT @globaldev: Today's graphing cliff: finding the 240 rogue keys (out of ~800k) that were taking up 24Gb (90%) of RAM in Redis t ...

    2. 13:22

       Raining again :( SL4 3/10 #ukrain

22. 16 April

    1. 14:20

       If you haven't already seen, we launched a new @globaldev site at t.co/PBYBwKSB alongside @globalpersonals' at t.co/wmM5A3f2

    2. 14:18

       Back in the office after a splendid week away and pleased to find our well-oiled machine humming away.