Ken's Blog

A neat trick with the HTML 5 canvas element in JavaScript is to use a second canvas to draw your canvas of screen, and flip it to a main can...

I sometimes speak to people publicly for my company, and I tell them I've been involved in Configuration Management for 13 years. Obviou...

Some time ago I was at a conference and listened to an introduction to OpenNebula  2 by Tino Vasquez from the OpenNebula team. I was fasc...

In Erlang using processes and in-built functions you are able to send message to processes anywhere in your cluster, and there is a pattern ...

So I've started work for the first time as a full time developer at a popular software company recently, and I've been jotting down ...

Here is the output of some code I wrote to output hashes and arrays in a more colourful way: The code is here if you're intereste...

I wanted to sort the top-level keys in a YAML hash in Ruby in a once-off way (that is, not sort all the time - just this once). I found two ...