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This is a synopsis of the film Star Wars to highlight how similar it is to the Force Awakens in premise.

Spoiler alert.

I was invited to join a 30 days squat challenge, which goes as follows:

30 DAY SQUAT CHALLENGE

Squatting is one of the most fundamental movements that all humans can and should perform regularly. Squats not only work your glutes and quads but also your hamstrings, calves, hips, back and core. They can also improve your flexibility, balance and posture.

BEGINNER- start with one squat on the 1st of June and increase by one per day until the 30th of June where you'll perform 30 squats.

I am trying out embedding a pdf on a webpage using google drive previewer.

Basically create an iframe with the src set to "http://docs.google.com/gview?url[insert the url of the pdf]&embedded=true"

<iframe src="http://docs.google.com/gview?url=http://79.170.44.209/craigalmondscouts.co.uk/30th/wp-content/uploads/Scout-Programme-Spring-2015.pdf&#038;embedded=true" style="width:560px; height:790px;" frameborder="0"></iframe>
gives us:

I have been using git merge quite a lot at work as a part of the my workflow, because the powers that be outlined how we should be working prior to deployment, but it means that looking at the history in a graphical tool you get a messy web of branches, so I asked the question
"Should we be using rebase more in our workflow?"

Here are some of the arguments for rebase:

The Case for Git Rebase

I really liked this webinar from Atlassian which contains a special mention of using git with Jira and Jenkins for continuous integration (CI), all of which I use at work, bonus.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SZ7kSQ2424
Utopia == A seperate build for each branch and automated testing with CI.

I listened to this podcast recently and found the chat about workflows really interesting, especially relevant is the chat about git/jenkins/jira automatically coming together and might be worth looking into:
http://www.lullabot.com/blog/podcasts/workflow-uh-what-it-good

https://www.getpantheon.com/blog/12-tips-get-your-drupal-website-humming-holidays

Its focus is on drupal, but the concepts can be applied elsewhere. It is all standard stuff, but with some QA and load testing links at the end.

Christmas is coming the .gz is getting fat. Please do fputs a $penny in the $old-mans-hat[];

or some other even more witty introduction. Advent is here, it time to stop complaining that there are christmas adverts in shops or on telly and open the calenders:

Having read through Drupal 7 media, I can honestly say I am quite impressed.

For once a book like this doesn't start with the obligatory chapter on installing and setting up drupal, quite a refreshing change, but instead leads off with an explanation on nodes and entities and then focuses on setting up a content type for dealing with media using the image handling features that come with drupal by default

I can honestly say it has been a long time since I have been at all interested in talking about anything Metallica related but recently I discovered something that has me twitching a little.

The title of this blog post says it all. And justice of all, is being remastered by clever internetheads muso producery peeps. Certain songs are being mixed with the original bass tracks to bring the bass up in the mix, producing what I think is a warmer and less dry version.