Category Archives: Techie


local.live.com Snowdon Mashup

August 21, 2006 – 1:10 pm

I don’t like the term “mashup” but I wrote a quick “mashup” to show the route I took up Snowdon on sunday (I didn’t go all the way). Try it out. The javascript needs some cleaning but it works for now. Note: I haven’t tested in in IE.
To tie this in with a handheld GPS […]

By philroche | Also posted in General, javascript | Comments (3)

shop.wwf.org.uk 2006 goes live

August 16, 2006 – 12:52 am

http://shop.wwf.org.uk/ is finally live after far too many late nights. Well done team Karova. I’m off to get some shut eye.
Don’t even think of sending me bug reports. At least not until the morning.

By philroche | Also posted in General, c# | Comments (2)

C# XML encoding woes

July 21, 2006 – 1:01 pm

I have a simple XML document fragment with a euro symbol in it:
[code lang=”xml”]
Lorem ipsˆum dolor sit amet,
[/code]
which I want to load into an XML document.
[code lang=”cpp”]
System.Xml.XmlDocument doc=new System.Xml.XmlDocument();
doc.LoadXml(xml);
[/code]
I then output the XML of that doc to see that all is well - alas it is not, It has decided to re-enocde my beautiful numeric […]

By philroche | Also posted in xslt, xml, c# | Comments (0)

Dev crazy

July 10, 2006 – 8:48 pm

In an attempt to vary the type of programming I am doing, out of office I have been working on quite a few cool projects. Outlined a few below - unfortunately none are for download yet as they are still in progress.

KarovaDev Firefox extension
As Karova’s main product is a hosted e-commerce solution, we naturally have […]

By philroche | Also posted in python, firefox, xml, c#, mod_python, Linux, Ubuntu | Comments (1)

Skype mania

July 2, 2006 – 6:00 pm

I love Skype and use it for most of my calls. I have a Skype-in number “+44121 288 5321″ and I have Skype voicemail too. I recently got my dad set up so we can have free calls.
I was wandering around Sainsburys the other day and was very surprised to see a leaflet allowing you […]

By philroche | Also posted in General | Comments (0)

Evolution on Win32

June 20, 2006 – 9:04 am

Finally Evolution on Win32. I definitely see this giving thunderbird/lightning a run for its money. - I can’t find a download though

By philroche | Also posted in General, Linux | Comments (3)

XGL madness

June 1, 2006 – 11:28 pm

I managed to get (with some help) XGL working on the iBook and it runs quite well considering the graphics cards in those machines. All the key bindings were screwed though (it being a mac keyboard - an australian one at that) and it misunderstood the size of my screen so all my apps were […]

By philroche | Also posted in Linux, Ubuntu, OSX | Comments (1)

Finally, me got some wireless

May 31, 2006 – 9:29 pm

With the long awaited Dapper Drake release of Ubuntu I have finally got Ubuntu 6.0.6 (Dapper Drake) working on my iBook. With some help from ubuntuforums, modprobe, fwcutter and my OSX installation, I also managed to get wifi working (I did have to disable my WEP though).

Awesome stuff, It really is nice to have a […]

By philroche | Also posted in Linux, Ubuntu, OSX | Comments (2)

IIS wants it’s 80 back

May 17, 2006 – 6:24 pm

Once again microsoft succeed in completely baffling me with a non sensical error message - “Unexpected Error 0×8ffe2740 Occurred”.

What it really meant to say was that IIS is not able start on port 80 so sort it out, the reason for this was Skype (As I have seen before).

By philroche | Also posted in c# | Comments (2)

Archive date grep V1.0

May 2, 2006 – 9:58 am

Archive date grep is a python script that allows you to archive (choosing zip or tar) all files within a directory structure which have been modifies since a user defined date. The archive maintains the original directory structure which makes it ideal for releasing websites. You can downlaod the script as a zip archive[zip 2 […]

By philroche | Also posted in python | Comments (0)