Peter Roome @zoltarSpeaks

  • App availability monitoring with New Relic (and how to stop your Heroku app from falling asleep)

    17/10/2013, About a minutes read.

    Whilst working on a number of sites at PANDR, using Heroku, i would often find applications would ‘go to sleep’. As a result they would then take anything up to ~10s to respond to the first call that hit them.

  • A Jekyll plugin to how long a post will take to read

    16/10/2013, Less than a 1 minute read.

    Having set about creating a Jekyll site i quickly realised whilst playing with the css that i wanted to copy Medium’s “4 min read” system. Knowing how long an article helps me to make a really quick decision about whether i’m going to read the content during the day at work or if i’m going to Instapaper it for later consumption.

  • Xcode 5 broke the Safari Web Inspector

    15/10/2013, Less than a 1 minute read.

    So it turns out that along with the release of iOS 7 and Xcode 5, Web Inspector inside Safari has broken.

  • Running Jekyll on Github Pages

    14/10/2013, A couple of minutes read.

    So to expand on my first post, i decided it was high time i got myself a little site together, even if it was just for snippets and general opinions and thoughts.

  • Step 1

    10/10/2013, Less than a 1 minute read.

    Get a miniture blog up, where i can post some snippets for reference, instead of keeping them locked away in my Evernote ‘draw’, so that i can find them and so they can be of use to anyone else who may stumble upon them.

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