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 [...]
January 29, 2008 – 1:16 pm
Sparked by a conversation on LugRadio about what software you’ve ever purchased. It got me thinking about what I’ve paid for. It’s been recently that I’ve purchased the most
Windows XP – 2 copies of
Acronis Workstation
Visual Studio 2005
Resharper
Suse 7.2 and some other later that version I can’t remember
SkEdit (I think)
Peepcode RoR Screencasts
Various donations to OS projects
I’m [...]
January 24, 2008 – 11:29 am
Overall – I’m really impressed.
Pros
It’s tiny – meaning very portable
It’s light – under one kilo
It’s fast – Celeron 900MHz with 512MB Ram
It runs Linux – Xandros with a very fast window manager by default
Battery life is good considering the size (3-4 hours)
It’s cheap as hell – I paid about 300Euro
It’s got Wifi and webcam – [...]
August 22, 2007 – 2:38 pm
I bought a few mp3s from mp3sparks (formerly allofmp3) and was annoyed that the mp3s were not tagged with their track numbers but they were in the filename.
I had a quick look to see if I could fix this somehow. I found id3-py which I used to write a python script that fixes this and [...]
August 14, 2007 – 2:09 pm
My housemate Colm (aka. Donkey Dolittle) encodes some of his tunes in m4a AAC format which my wonderful iRiver S10 does not play. Last night I put the new Kings of Leon album on but it was in m4a so alas there was no Kings of Leon goodness for this mornings commute. When I got [...]
I’ll stop venting my anger at faceless corporations now.
There’s a nice write up on the tools needed to write good firefox extensions.
http://www.softwaredeveloper.com/features/firefox-extension-resource-072307/
January 4, 2007 – 12:04 pm
As it’s new year and my motivation is at an all time low, I think a list of TODOs (or new years resultions) is needed. Some of those listed are techy and some are not but all of them are aimed at improving my life.
I will
Finish the new design of this site – [...]
December 15, 2006 – 12:05 pm
Every year for the last few years I have given to charity at Christmas. Last year it was Oxfam but this year I wanted to do something a bit different. In the early days of Aggreg8 development, I got a $10 donation and it freaked me out, I coded for days with a crazy energy [...]
