As I wander lonley as a cloud across the series of tubes that is the internet this week I found some of this stuff interesting….

General

http://drinks.nwalsh.com/ A neat mobile friendly site for cocktail recipies.

http://www.asciiflow.com/ For all your ascii art flow chart drawing needs.

Bikes

http://cyclelondoncity.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/amsterdam-announces-plan-to-create.html Amsterdam is taking the long term view on planning cycling as a fully supported part of the transport system. I wonder what York City Councils 20 year plan looks like.

Makers

http://blog.somakeit.org.uk/2014/01/20/a-place-of-our-own/ Southampton hacker space have a new space and now call themselves So Make It.

http://www.scrapstuff.co.uk/ Scrap Stuff. A Leeds art collective recycling your stuff for the enterainment and education of your children.

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/makezineonline/~3/EdDaR-sftLo/ A really tiny and detailed model of a bike workshop. So much effort has gone into this.

http://dangerousprototypes.com/2014/01/23/bus-pirate-probe-cable-prototypes/ Cables for the bus pirate that have the names on the pins on the end. So useful.

Devopsy

http://docs.saltstack.com/topics/tutorials/walkthrough.html Saltstack looks like an interesting alternative to Puppet. Not sure it’s worth us changing right now but if I was looking for a new configuration management tool it would be worth a look I think. There are so many of them about now though. It would be nice if they could have some common parts.

Progamming

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8845186/what-exactly-is-apache-camel Apache camel messaging broker and translator type thing. Read the post for a better discription. Maybe it should go in the Devopsy list above, who knows.