Proxying network requests over the USB cable

You know how it is - you're developing an app that uses an API out on the Internet. You're sitting on your development machine that uses wired ethernet. Your phone is connected to a wi-fi access point which is on a different network to your development machine and you need to …

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Apologies for the theme change

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Sorry about the theme changing. I wanted to add the ability to leave comments but the theme I was using before doesn't support them. I can't promise it won't change again.

I've changed to this theme for now. I might keep it. I might not. I kinda liked having the …

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Why I'm disappointed with the new Nexus devices

This is a rant post, and is purely my own opinion.

Now I'm sure that Google have done their customer research. I'd hate to think that someone sat in a room and said "Apple have a 6-inch phone and people rave about it so we have to have one too …

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Quick tip: Remembering the order for the link command

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Inspired by a tweet from @rfletcherEW

Creating links and symlinks from the commandline involves the use of the ln command.  In the past I always forgot which parameter was the existing file/directory and the which was the link I wanted to create. So here's my quick tip to remember …

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