Hello, I’m Barry Frost. I live in Windsor in the UK where I’m Technical Director 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. 27 January

   1. 17:21

      Why would you have such a tiny strip of grass in your back garden? t.co/mUbrwo1E

   2. 09:10

      The web was born in France, not Switzerland

      CERN straddles the border and the exact location where Tim Berners-Lee invented it was on the French side.

2. 25 January

   1. 17:55

      RT @globaldev: We've won "Best Dating Software Provider" at the annual iDate Awards for our core product, WhiteLabelDating.com ( @wld )

   2. 16:10

      Baby in office = lots of clucking

   3. 14:44

      Using Omnifocus for GTD

   4. 14:43

      Hijack

      Provides an irb session to a running ruby process - very handy for debugging

   5. 12:29

      RT @sshingler: This @o2 debacle is getting really interesting: “@nik: Can I charge @o2 for the cost of now having to scrub our Server Logs?"

   6. 11:59

      Before O2 do the right thing and stop putting their customers' numbers in headers, we could store them for advertising. Just a thought...

   7. 10:43

      Modern Pictograms

      Free icon font for embedding via @font-face

   8. 10:29

      The Strange Face project: photos of people listening to a lost recording of Nick Drake's Cello Song t.co/RvY37UdQ

   9. 09:52

      Nokia ringtone during concert of classical music
      

3. 24 January

   1. 17:32

      I spend all day in Things on Mac/iPhone but I'm becoming quite tempted by Omnifocus. Pricey, but strong recommendations. Any fans out there?

   2. 16:18

      Gigs for Ultrasound on Thursday and Kaiser Chiefs on Saturday this week, plus booked to see The Pains of Being Pure at Heart in March

4. 23 January

   1. 17:10

      MacBook Air 2011 Heat and Fan Noise Issues

      Includes instructions on resetting the SMC.

5. 22 January

   1. 09:11

      RT @RichNeville: This Glitter thing has really thrown a spotlight on the issue of young people lurking online pretending to be paedophiles.

6. 20 January

   1. 18:51

      RT @globaldev: Building an API and Mobile Platform for 10 million Users t.co/N5wPgnSR via @globaldev

   2. 18:49

      Apparently slap cheek is a real disease for children and not a boys' school jape.

   3. 13:40

      Lunchtime mission to buy some sort of silver-based christening present for a friend's little girl completed.

7. 19 January

   1. 14:04

      Stasis

      Ruby static site generator, supporting HAML, SASS and more. Use before filters, layouts, helpers and more. Can even run as a server.

   2. 13:18

      RT @2by: Schettino's lawyers could use the Steve Coogan security guard line of defence: in 2006 no-one died, in 2007 no-one died, in 200 ...

   3. 12:20

      LifeSize

      Video conferencing in HD from Logitech

   4. 11:50

      Buried under a 17-email boss laptop sync. Send help.

8. 18 January

   1. 20:50

      This Baker Brothers tosh on C4 is unwatchable. Rage rising. They're smugger than Simon Cowell with the only parachute.

   2. 17:39

      Off to Windlesham to see a house.

   3. 14:27

      RT @citricsquid: t.co/aTSy1ZuV

   4. 13:42

      Dear SaaS app developers, please add a field for a finance/accounts email address to send any receipts rather than the account owner. Thx.

   5. 11:48

      Enjoying @herpderpedia's RTs of some very confused Wikipedia visitors ("What does Wikipedia have against soap?"). #sopa

   6. 09:30

      Trigger

      Cross-platform app framework. HTML5/CSS3/JS => Android, iOS, Chrome, Firefox, Safari & IE

9. 17 January

   1. 18:25

      15 Credit/Debit Card Icons

   2. 17:21

      Gabble - Yammer Mac client

10. 16 January

    1. 18:39

       Come To Daddy
       

    2. 11:59

       RT @boffbowsh: Can (finally) say that I shall be joining the @globaldev team in Feb. Looking forward to some cool challenges but will mi ...

11. 15 January

    1. 20:20

       Fancy Hands

       Virtual PA service

12. 11 January

    1. 23:13

       LET'S PLAY DARTS! t.co/22iFqyZc

    2. 23:11

       RT @MissSpanna: Gross! I will not be cooking, eating or doing anything else with the placenta! Unlike crazy woman on #howtobeagoodmother

    3. 17:13

       Off to the BDO darts with @ian_winter @timblair and @debbie.

13. 07 January

    1. 17:35

       True Sparrow Systems

       Rails agency based in India who built Fab.com

14. 06 January

    1. 14:48

       TouchPad

       Control your Mac with an iPhone, iPad or iPod. Keyboard, multi-touch trackpad and remote

15. 05 January

    1. 17:12

       Ruby on Rails with Nginx on CentOS 5 on Linode

    2. 14:05

       RT @alexispetridis: *Crying* with laughter at this list of So Solid Crew members, pulled from Wikipedia, but saved by @profanityswan htt ...

16. 04 January

    1. 16:46

       Subtle Patterns

       Free textures for web design

    2. 16:45

       scriptogr.am

       Similar concept to Calepin - use your Dropbox to publish a Markdown-formatted blog

17. 03 January

    1. 09:20

       Jettison

       Ejects external disks before your Mac goes to sleep

18. 02 January

    1. 14:34

       Househunting

    2. 13:01

       The Goldilocks Approach to Responsive Web Design

19. 01 January

    1. 15:47

       Rubberbandits - Horse Outside
       

20. 31 Dec 2011

    1. 23:45

       Hootenanny! Best wishes everyone for 2012 t.co/IIT5DUB3

21. 25 Dec 2011

    1. 13:45

       About to begin a stunning Christmas lunch at the Hobsons'. Happy Xmas to you.

22. 21 Dec 2011

    1. 23:05

       Handy new service by @jasonkneen RT @tweet4me: We're here. t.co/a8GI5Ror - scheduled and delayed tweets from ANY twitter client

    2. 16:47

       Massive product launch by the team: RT @globaldev: Announcing the @wld mobile web platform t.co/AS5OLgC0