Author Archives: philroche


ammado v1.0 launch

June 26, 2008 – 9:46 am

My former colleagues have done a great job with the v1.0 release of ammado. I was briefly involved at the beginning of the redesign before I wandered back over to Wales. They’ve got a blog that is updated frequently and a podcast too. It’s a great redesign with plenty of very nice aspects to it. […]

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Using Wireshark

June 23, 2008 – 3:16 pm

We had a support ticket at Karova which resulted in me having to look at the http data being sent between two servers via Soap over http. I’d read about Wireshark before and had it downloaded already. I installed it - found a way to filter the captured data by IP address and logged all […]

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I love my freekin n95

June 20, 2008 – 4:04 pm

I’ve been an ericsson/sony ericsson fanboy for as long as I can remember so it was a bit of a departure from the safe confines of my Sony when I got an n95 8GB for work (we needed a GPS phone to test on). I’m absolutely in love with it.
Pro’s

Huge screen
5MP camera with flash
8GB storage
Good […]

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Step away from the code

June 6, 2008 – 12:16 pm

Since coming back to Karova, I’ve been doing ALOT more management of projects than I did before. Usually what happens is I get the projects once they’ve been spec’d (and prototype’d if appropriate) and then I manage the completion of the project from dev->staging->live and then pass it back to billing.
We always have a good […]

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Lake Garadice 2008 (triathlon number 2)

June 4, 2008 – 6:00 pm

On Sunday last myself and big Frank borrowed my mum’s car (as it has a hitch) and drove across to Leitrim with our bikes and butterflies in our bellies. Frank did the same race last year and said he really enjoyed and it was my first open water race. This was meant to be my […]

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Sacrificing my EEEPC for a Garmin - EEEPC for sale

May 26, 2008 – 12:33 pm

I’ve come to the crazy decision that I need to sacrifice my EEPC in favour of a Garmin Forerunner 405. Why?

I’ve got an awesome Vaio that I find myself using more and more at home
I’m doing the Dublin marathon this year and I’d like the Garmin to aid in my training

What I found great […]

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geek poll: what do you have open?

May 21, 2008 – 12:54 pm

From the Planet Ubuntu feed I saw the meme "geek poll: what do you have open?"
What do I have open?

3 instances of windows explorer
1 firefox window with 22 tabs
I instance of Filezilla
2 instances of Visual Studio 2003 command prompt
I instance of EMS’s SQL Manager Lite for SQL express
3 Skype conversations
1 AIM conversation on Pidgin
1 instance […]

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My first sprint triathlon - Fingal sprint

May 19, 2008 – 12:11 pm

This year Frank convinced me to join him in training for a sprint triathlon. I agreed and last weekend was my first (fingalsprint.3dtri.com). It was tough - real tough. I’m not a strong swimmer and I was punished severally in the swim - somehow I was placed in the fast group and ended […]

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Do you Really Want to Be a Development Team Leader?

May 13, 2008 – 2:19 pm

Do you Really Want to Be a Development Team Leader? When you become a DTL you work balance is up for a bit of a change.
A very good article on the differences between a developer and a Dev team leader. It’s very true.

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My Ultimate Dev Machine

May 9, 2008 – 4:04 pm

When I started back at Karova I treated myself to a new and very awesome dev machine. I bought it myself so was very careful that I got best value for my money. I’ve been using it for three months now and I have to say I am very very very pleased with it.

Dell Precison […]

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