Server Change

Date August 10th, 2009 Comment No Comments

I’ve now successfully migrated my amalgamated my two existing servers to a single Windows Home Server, allowing me to host websites and clickonce applications and stream media to my XBox 360, all from a single box. The changes are listed below: Upgraded PHP to 5.3.0, which provided a few challenges, as it doesn’t support ISAPI [...]

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Online Shop using AJAX

Date July 16th, 2009 Comment No Comments

The Pro Shop that I developed at Computa Services for the Carnoustie Golf Links, is now live. It uses concurrent AJAX, calling a lightweight PHP+XML web service layer to communicate with a Microsoft SQL Server. The management application that the staff at the Links use to administer the bookings is written in C#, using C# [...]

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My New Case

Date June 5th, 2009 Comment No Comments

It’s a bit fresher.

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Karaokidex Goes Pro!

Date May 11th, 2009 Comment 1 Comment

I recently created an application called Karaokidex to index, rate and play (using KaraFun) karaoke tracks (mp3+g) for use during karaoke shows, and it had it’s live debut on 3rd May at the Red Lion Caravan Park in Arbroath. It also allows you to rate each track, allowing you to differentiate between different versions of [...]

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Customize the Office HP Printer's Console Message

Date April 2nd, 2009 Comment No Comments

Baffle your coworkers with an "Insert Coin" message on the office printer using the HP Printer Job Language (HPPJL) command set. [Via: Lifehacker]

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Upside-Down-Ternet

Date April 2nd, 2009 Comment No Comments

Clever network admin Pete decided to mess with his wifi-piggybacking neighbors by flipping all the images they’d see on web pages upside down. [Via: Lifehacker]

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Software Defection

Date April 2nd, 2009 Comment No Comments

I changed some of my “default” software (the applications I install on my vanilla Windows) recently, based on the previous post. TextPad out; NotePad++ in. TextPad is proprietary, NotePad++ is freeware (this seems to be a theme), and TextPad doesn’t seem to be updated very frequently Paint Shop Pro out; GIMP in. When PSP was [...]

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Portable Apps

Date April 2nd, 2009 Comment 1 Comment

I recently purchased a small funky rubber USB flash drive from Integral with a view to making it a platform for storing portable applications, i.e., applications that can be executed directly from the drive without installing anything on the host machine. This is especially useful for anti-malware and browser or email apps. Here’s a few [...]

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Street View Star

Date March 20th, 2009 Comment No Comments

I’ve just found my house and car on Google Maps Street View! They said they’d done Dundee, but I didn’t realise that meant the whole of Dundee and Angus too. w00t!

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Twittering Away…

Date February 6th, 2009 Comment No Comments

I’ve joined Twitter and add a feed widget.

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