Barry Frost

Web: barryfrost.com
Email: public@barryfrost.com
Bio: Barry Frost is a web developer based in Windsor, England.

He makes sharp websites and web applications using a mix of ColdFusion, Ruby on Rails, PHP, Flash, MySQL and of course HTML/CSS.

twitter: Invented chicken, bacon and banana satay kebabs. Won't try that again.

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Trips from Dopplr:

• Madrid, Spain - April 2010

• Sevilla, Spain - April 2010

• Málaga, Spain - April 2010

• Granada, Spain - April 2010

Recent Last.fm tracks:

• Hurricane II – Come
• Dazed And Awake – Aerial M
• Black And Brown Blues – Silver Jews
• Kings of Convenience – Second To Numb
• Useless landscape – Movietone
• I Was A Stranger – Smog
• Too Pure – Sebadoh
• Blue Hawaiian – Pavement
• Unfair Kind Of Fame – The Pastels
• David Holmes – Gone (K&D Session)

Latest Delicious links:

1. MagicPrefs

   Free app that provides Magic Mouse enhancements

   • magicmouse
   • mouse
   • mac
   • free
   • multitouch
   • hardware

   2010-02-01T09:18:41Z

2. Two Gentlemen of Lebowski

   What if Shakespeare wrote The Big Lebowski? "I stand before thee tainted with remorse, and beg thy mercy; I am overcome. A pox upon’t, Knave; let us play at ninepins."

   • shakespeare
   • humour
   • lebowski
   • parody
   • script
   • mashup
   • awesome

   2010-01-09T14:54:20Z

3. A review of the Mac mini with Snow Leopard Server

   • mac
   • macmini
   • snowleopard
   • server
   • sysadmin
   • office
   • work
   • sme

   2010-01-08T12:39:11Z

4. Rails 2.3.5 on App Engine

   A simple how-to

   • rails
   • appengine
   • gae
   • ruby
   • google

   2010-01-08T12:38:37Z

5. DashNote

   Free SimpleNote dashboard widget for Mac

   • mac
   • simplenote
   • widget
   • todo
   • free

   2010-01-04T13:13:01Z

6. jsondns

   JSONP RESTful interface for DNS lookups

   • dns
   • json
   • jsonp
   • rest
   • domain
   • query

   2009-12-31T17:34:18Z

7. tipsy

   Facebook-style tooltip plugin for jQuery

   • jquery
   • tooltip
   • javascript
   • ui
   • facebook
   • plugin

   2009-12-31T17:33:24Z

8. Bypass image blocking by converting images to HTML

   Clever pixel art that's email compatible. Tables of background colours that of course don't need images to be displayed.

   • pixel
   • email
   • marketing
   • image
   • design
   • work
   • table

   2009-12-30T17:34:25Z

9. That’s Not a Memory Leak, It’s Bloat

   Detecting inefficiencies in Rails apps, in particular with ActiveRecord

   • activerecord
   • bloat
   • rails
   • sysadmin
   • scaling
   • performance
   • work

   2009-12-20T22:35:05Z

10. Simplest jQuery Slideshow

    • jquery
    • slideshow
    • animation
    • slider
    • image
    • gallery
    • portfolio

    2009-12-20T17:25:00Z

11. Kanban Distilled for Managers

    Perfect. I'll send this around our management team.

    • kanban
    • agile
    • management
    • work
    • introduction
    • dev

    2009-12-05T18:51:21Z

12. Google Analytics goes async

    Needs a change to the Javascript and then its tracking code is loaded asynchronously

    • async
    • google
    • analytics
    • javascript
    • speed
    • optimisation

    2009-12-05T18:47:06Z

Barry always likes to receive email from nice people.