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Bitbucket recently launched the beta of Pipelines, a continuous delivery system for Bitbucket repositories.

Web Directions Respond is in its third year; but the first in a two-day format and in two cities. The ansarada crew rolled into the Sydney edition at the Maritime Museum; and @justosophy rolled out on the electric scooter Vision6 gave away ;)

As is so often the case, I've had a new design for this blog kicking around for a couple of years. Actually applying it, of course, was never quite at the top of the To Do list. With a few days off, it finally bubbled up.

Another year, another new venue! Luna Park was a curious location, but if you want to see adults turn back into kids - give them free access to dodgem cars!

The ansarada frontend crew headed to Web Directions Code in Melbourne, to heckle^H^Hsupport Clark while he was speaking and generally to fill our brains with web goodness. Much fun and coffee was had!

A new venue, side shows, main shows, amazing talks and a good time had by all...

Raspberry Pis are awesome little machines. Even with the Aussie Tax™ increasing the price, for about $50 you get a surprisingly capable computer in a tiny form factor.

There are a few gotchas getting up and running, though – particularly if you haven’t used Linux before. For example I didn’t know the right terminology for packages and using apt-get, which made searching for help a bit annoying at first.

This post is basically a list of things I’d have liked to know when I bought my first Pi, just to get up and running faster. Hopefully these tips will save someone some time…