Public Speaking
I’ve really never been good at public speaking, I’m not sure why. I suppose I could look back into my childhood years and find some event where i spoke and it didn’t go well and attribute it to that,...
View ArticleGetting the iPad 2 – Upgrading not painless
After a short amount of hunting around at the local shopping centre, I was able to find a retailer that had stock of the 64Gb 3G iPad2. I gave in and bought the black leather smart cover as well. The...
View ArticleAnnouncement – Open Source: InsertDataHere.Yubikey Client API library
I’ve been interested in the Yubikey for some time now, it’s an interesting approach to the problem of two-factor authentication with a physical token that is a space normally owned by the big guys....
View ArticleThe JooJoo & Fusion Garage: One year on, Apple reigns supreme.
I remember back to the end of 2009 when the JooJoo pre-orders first became available, it was exciting times. A brand new linux based, full screen, capacative touch tablet was actually making its way to...
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Going ‘droid. Motorola Atrix
Some time ago I decided it was time to jump on the Android boat. I’ve just been waiting for the right device to come along for a geek like me and i think that device is the Motorola Atrix 4G which i’ve...
View ArticleHoarder, I am. Looking Back: The Dual P3-933
Writing the last post got me thinking about my past, I realised that only last month did I finally throw away the Dual P3-933 system. It’s been with me for most of my Adult life. I was gifted some of...
View ArticleBeing Wrong
One of my favourite ways to spend my time on short flights between Brisbane and Melbourne, which I do monthly for work, is to catch up on the recent TED talks. A recent one I watched was Kathryn...
View ArticleUpgraded: How can one argue with those scores?
So today I caved in, I bought a new MacBook Air 11″ the Core i7 1.8Ghz 4Gb RAM 256Gb SSD model. I was going to custom build and get the 128Gb model but the 2 week build and shipping was just enough to...
View ArticleBegging is not Bargaining
I’ve had my previous MacBook Air for sale up on Gumtree Brisbane now for a few weeks, a few days ago i lowered the price and bumped it up the list. This resulted in while a few enquiries, none more...
View ArticleConfusing Domain and Context?
Never, never, never use String in Java (or at least less often) This, now older, article evokes some passionate discussion about the use of domain classes, where to validate, when to validate and what...
View ArticleSingapore, We need to talk.
Singapore, you’re my second home behind Australia, but as a regular visitor and a friend we need to talk. Don’t get me wrong, you’re a wonderful place to live and visit, being a mixing pot of cultures,...
View ArticleUnwind: Relax its a CouchDB URL Shortener
Its been some time since I built unwind as a project to learn about interacting with CouchDB from .net as well as getting some experience in running .net on mono. It was an excellent sample application...
View ArticleThe Grid10: firstImpressions
Firstly I need to thank fusionGarage for sending me out a Grid10 as a gift for being an original JooJoo customer, the experience wasn’t painless as i never received the original offer email and their...
View ArticleUnwind: Sequences in the cloud
When starting to build the url shortener, the first thing i did was research how others had solved the problem before me. This research turned up a lot of the same thing, a simple database where the...
View ArticleMaid in Singapore
This post is in response to reading Little rest for Singapore’s silent army and then finding out about this maid employer’s blog. Maids are not as vulnerable as you think. Many maids will agree to a...
View ArticleBarCamp Brisbane: My first “un-conference”
Yesterday i attended BarCamp Brisbane which was my first un-conference. I had read a little bit about the concept, where everyone that attends is meant to participate in some way. I hadn’t planned to...
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Freetronics 16×2 LCD on the NetduinoPlus
Since I got my netduino, and shortly after the netduino plus, I’ve been dying to get a few accessories to play with. Making the on-board LED flash isn’t the most exciting thing in the world. So when...
View ArticleRelax & Unwind with a little Redis
In a previous post, Unwind: Sequences in the cloud, I wrote about one of the challenges of moving from the relational database world to the non-relational database world. The issue of generating...
View ArticleGetting to know Fabric: Remote server control
I use a number of cheap VPS instances to test out various platforms and tools. Sadly, as is the nature of the low end VPS market, not all of them are reliable which has led me to re-installing &...
View ArticleSource to the netduino app to run a Freetronics LCD
There was some interest in the source code to the sample app that drove the Freetronics LCD using the netduino. So here it is, up on github: NetduinoPlayground The code is released under an Apache 2.0...
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