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Monday, December 15th, 2008Design Decisions
Thursday, January 17th, 2008A comment in my recent post about letting the air out of Air got me thinking about some of the design decisions Apple have made with their new laptop.
Why pay more?
Monday, January 7th, 2008A couple of years ago my mother bought us a dedicated photo printer – a Canon SELPHY DS810. It’s a nice enough printer, and it does exactly what it says on the tin (i.e. print photos). Being able to connect it directly to my camera or just use memory cards can be so convenient. I’ve even printed via IR from my phone before, which leads me to…
The other day I wanted to print a photo from my N95, which manages to support every function under the sun except IR printing. In all fairness it is a 5 Megapixel camera, so the image would be a bit large (and therefore slow) for IR, but still. The N95 does support Bluetooth printing, but Canon only supports their BU20 Bluetooth module which retails for upwards of £40, and I’ve never cared enough to get one. Fortunately the N95 also supports USB printing, so my immediate problem was solved.
When I ordered my N95 (and N800) I realised I’d misplaced my Bluetooth dongle so I promptly ordered another one off eBay for less than £4 delivered (and then just as promptly found my other one). It arrived this morning and on a whim I plugged it into the DS810 – lo and behold, it worked. I’m sure my other dongle never worked (although I just tried it, and it seemed to), but I had let myself be brainwashed by Canon into believing that only their (overpriced) offering would work and didn’t bother to research alternatives.
Lesson learned.
I can has caffeine
Tuesday, December 18th, 2007AKA the tea thief
I wouldn’t mind, but I hadn’t finished drinking it!
My name in print
Thursday, December 13th, 2007…and this time I’ve got the cover all to myself!
I’ve alluded to this several times, but now it is time to forcibly eject the cat from the bag.
In short: my book – Managing Software Development with Trac and Subversion will be available soon.
What everyone else says is true: writing a book is hard work, but it’s worth it.
Section feeds are back
Monday, January 8th, 2007As promised section feeds have returned. If you select a section from the list on the right, then click the RSS icon in your browser it will give you specific feed for that section.
Too make life easier though, here are the feeds most people will be interested in:
If you can’t find what you’re looking for…
Saturday, January 6th, 2007…please ask a member of staff.
Although much better, my switch to Mephisto was not without its casualties. This can mainly be seen in three areas:
Design. I was using Scribbish before because I couldn’t be bothered migrating my old design to a newer version of Typo. I’m now using the default Mephisto theme, but this will be transformed into a new take of my old design “real soon now”. Honest. Sections (or categories or whatever). The migration script copied everything over but these. Not sure why… Anyway it was time for shakeup. I’ve recreated the important sections and filed recent (hah!) posts. Older posts are not filed. Maybe if I get bored one day… Per-section feeds (for various planets) will be re-instated when I update the design. Links. Links to old posts may or may not work (hopefully they will). If you can’t find what looking for, search!
Close, but no cigar
Wednesday, August 9th, 2006Want to hear a couple of respected .NET developers talk about Open Source? Go and listen to the episode of of Hanselminutes entitled Open Source Options. I found it both infuriating and enlightening at the same time.
How can it be both? Because it’s two commercially-oriented software developers discussing a concept they don’t seem to fully grasp or understand. I sure this is in part due to the format and constraints of the show – Scott Hanselman seems to be an intelligent guy, and I’m confident he knows more about Open Source than came across but it didn’t come across that way. It was interesting to see how Open Source is perceived by them, and their take on some of the problems we face.
Go listen and see what you think.
LugRadio Live 2006 Photos
Monday, July 24th, 2006LugRadio Live 2006 Day 1
Monday, July 24th, 2006I wandered down to the venue with fellow geeks to be greeted by the (very professional looking) banner letting the world know what was taking place inside. Actually I’d had a sneak preview of the banners and venue yesterday, but everyone else was suitably impressed. 
I snuck inside to drop off my video camera, and got roped into helping by Jono. My task? Keeping out non-exhibitors. My reward? A bright (and I mean bright yellow t-shirt with word CREW emblazoned across the back of it). This also meant I was to provide assistance throughout the rest of the day, but in practice I wasn’t really needed.
The venue was seriously impressive with large flatscreens everywhere (a feature of the venue) displaying what was happening now & next, and a stream of photos taken by people throughout the day – I believe sebpayne may have been the biggest contributor of shots. There was also a 12’ screen on the main stage.
First port of call was the introduction by the four large gents, and then onto the show itself.
