Archive for the ‘General’ Category
Sunday, June 29th, 2008
I recently attended the 2008 conference for Continuous Integration in Melbourne, and mixed with like minded professionals involved with all aspects of CI and testing in general.
In short this is a great (free) opportunity to attend a conference using an open session format. By that I mean the conference ...
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
Went to the third RailsCamp held in a scout hall near Gosford NSW last weekend; my brain has just about got back to normal after 3 solid days of drinking and coding =)
RailsCamp is a get together of mostly Rails developers, but also a fairly eclectic mix of Ruby hackers ...
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Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
Another post for my fading memory, how to install the GD libraries for your Leopard Apache installation running PHP 5.2.5. I will be using these libraries in a forthcoming blog about the use of 'sparklines' to present complex performance monitoring data.
Now on with installation. Thanks to topicdesk for leading the ...
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Thursday, April 24th, 2008
If you've been using a Macbook Pro or similar for some time, you'll find that their batteries need tender love and care, if they are to go the distance. According to Apple, I fit into the 'ideal use' category as I regularly use my notebook on the 1+ hour daily ...
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Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
Well as you know, I've become a bit of a Mac zealot (thanks Ted) and strongly favour TextMate as my preferred editor for coding and scripting ... Unfortunately, my real job is in a pure Windows environment, so if you're after a hit of TextMate-like functionality, try Intype ... It's ...
Posted in General, Tools, Productivity, Programming | 3 Comments »
Tuesday, December 18th, 2007
On a basic level, the honeybee’s dilemma is a tale of two flower patches. If one patch is yielding better nectar than the other, how can the hive use its workforce most efficiently to retrieve the best supply at the moment? The solution, which earned Austrian zoologist Karl von Frisch ...
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Wednesday, December 12th, 2007
This video is a play on Pascal's Wager which really gets you thinking on possible outcomes for a given scenario being climate change ... Is it a better bet to accept doomsday predictions for climate changes, or rest on our haunches and let the world pass by? If you haven't ...
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Tuesday, October 30th, 2007
It's a real pain for Apple users to synchronize Microsoft Outlook with Apple Mail, but Parallels (or VMWare) brings us one step closer. You can virtualize your work environment (typically a PC with Outlook/Exchange access) and host your own local IMAP server, to sync mail between your virtual PC and ...
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Saturday, October 27th, 2007
Have just stumbled across a very cool productivity app for OSX. I'm already a big fan of Quicksilver, and FlyGesture builds on that style of functionality albeit from your trackpad.
FlyGesture is activated like Exposé or Dashboard, bringing up a transparent window of "guides" to move your mouse through. Moving your ...
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Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007
I don't normally blog on the personal side of things, but this video I certainly identify with. Absolute classic!
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Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007
It has long since annoyed me and no doubt numerous others, the inability of Excel to get beyond 65,536 rows of data or more simply 2^16 ...
A deft upgrade to Office 2007 sees an improvement in this limitation and am now able to have at least 1M rows of data. ...
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Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007
Techdebug has spotted the size increase in Gmail standard user accounts. Guess that means storage is getting pretty cheap for the heavy weights. Coincidentally DPHOTO uses the GMail service for its production users, which pretty much rules out the need for me(us) to ever have to re-install MailEnable again ... ...
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Monday, October 1st, 2007
If you're a Mac user and you're not using TextMate, then hurry up and join the bandwagon. This is a powerful text editor for Mac OSX, which I use for just about any type of project be it C#, Java, PHP, Perl or even COBOL. What makes this tool so ...
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Wednesday, August 1st, 2007
I've been having a lot of problems with my Apple mighty mouse lately. Particularly with the scroll wheel which would scroll up but not down. I think eating chips and surfing the web was getting things too greasy. Apple lend us some advice here on how to clean your wheel ...
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Thursday, June 21st, 2007
As my current contract with Telstra comes to a close, test summary reports are signed off and my brain approaches shutdown mode in preparation for a 5 week holiday, I decided to give my Mac Book Pro a much needed crash diet.
Like owner like macbook, this beast was getting a ...
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Friday, December 15th, 2006
Not much to say. Been working on the next release of DPHOTO™ with Henry and a new contract with Telstra. Nice one ...
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