I’ve been using Spotify premium for a few months and I’ve been loving it. There are tons of sites with Spotify playlists but none for listing the current UK or US charts. I decided to write a playlist generator which parsed RSS feeds of the singles chart and then created a Spotify playlist based on [...]
January 12, 2010 – 2:30 pm
I’m not our server admin here at Ticket-Text but the whole issue of project dependency management and deployment does interest me. As such I’ve been looking at ways to help and have compiled the following list of what I have found most useful. I admit I have not read all of these yet but Fabric [...]
January 6, 2010 – 7:48 pm
The wonderful folks in the Django community have uploaded all the videos from Djangocon 2009. I’ve downloaded them but needed to convert them to mp3 so I could listen to them on my commute.
I used the ever awesome ffmpeg
for f in *.ogv; do ffmpeg -i “$f” -acodec libmp3lame -ab 256k “${f%.ogv}.mp3″; done
January 6, 2010 – 10:40 am
I use VirtualBox OSE for my virtual machines and really love it. I tried to change to the non-free VirtualBox (so I could use USB) but moving from one to the other in Ubuntu was not a simple process and eventually I rolled back (thank Christ for CloneZilla).
I’ve got a Win XP virtual machine with [...]
August 20, 2009 – 5:30 pm
I searched and searched through the Selenium documentation but could not find a list of the supported browsers and their start commands. So I ran off in a huff and downloaded the source to find the list that way and voila :
From – trunk\server-coreless\src\main\java\org\openqa\selenium\server\browserlaunchers\BrowserLauncherFactory.java#47
firefoxproxy = FirefoxCustomProfileLauncher
firefox = FirefoxLauncher
chrome = FirefoxChromeLauncher
firefoxchrome = FirefoxChromeLauncher
firefox2 = Firefox2Launcher
firefox3 = [...]
As part of my Masters I had to write a term paper for my Design pattern module. It’s probably still being marked but I can’t see anything wrong with posting it now.
It covers some of the patterns I’ve come across in my time developing web applications.
designpatternstermpaper-philiproche-08299234.pdf
Eh… No.
We’ll be moving to Google Apps soon at Ticket-Text so I wanted to try out a few clients to see which would suit us best. I’ve used thunderbird but thought I’d try out spicebird too. Downloaded it and installed. I could not set up an email account at all. Wizard had a load of [...]
January 20, 2009 – 11:15 am
I’ve been watching the BBC’s Gavin and Stacey series again and found just as hilarious as I did when I watched it first. I wanted to view the wedding speeches again but they weren’t on Youtube anywhere so I figured I’d upload my first youtube video with the speeches (probably violating all sorts of copyrights [...]
October 14, 2008 – 9:54 pm
I’ve signed up for a masters in UCD (Advanced Software Engineering in University College Dublin) starting in December. I’m really looking forward to it and as a treat I bought a new (used) laptop that’ll be just for Uni work. It’s an IBM Thinkpad T43 (Centrino 1.7Ghz and 1GB ram with 40GB HD, Wifi, Bluetooth, [...]
August 13, 2008 – 1:11 pm
This week I set off with the goal of making one of our web applications alot easier to deploy. The tools I chose were -
Web Application Installer (WAI)
Wix (Windows Installer XML)
WixEdit
I’d played with all three before but never really got past prototype stage. I’ve spent the last day learning wix and all the elements relevant [...]
