Archive
2010
August
- 28 Steam Saved Games
- Steam saved games and how to find saved games and back them up yourself.
July
- 10 CSS vendor prefixes
- CSS vendor prefixes are annoying, but do have some uses.
June
- 10 Downsampling audio and Linux OS camera
- Researching audio down-sampling to a specific sample rate and exploring enabling hardware features in cameras and phones.
May
- 08 Games!
- Games, games, games! Getting games and giving money to causes.
March
- 13 Sound in Ubuntu Server 9.10 Karmic Koala
- Modifying an Ubuntu Server to be a Media Centre attached to a TV.
- 05 Versioning a factory pattern or plugin architecture
- I need an architecture to allow for versioning a plugin, component or factory pattern in C#.
February
- 07 Different faces of web development
- Three events systems - mouse, keybaord and touch - now need to be taken into account in web development.
January
- 14 Options for good after 9pm snacks
- Late night snack suggestions.
- 13 Aggregate reports may be a problem
- What do IT projects and reporting on fundamentalism and violence have in common? Aggregates can be bad.
- 12 Repairing a wireless network connection
- Troubleshooting a Windows wireless connection.
- 11 Another way to look at it
- Writing content for the web and Firefox RC release.
2009
November
- 26 More Steam Games
- Steam games on sale and other Digital Store discussion.
- 11 Cyclists - lost in the cracks
- Cycling has many benefits - exercise, free transport, zero effect on the atmosphere, and accessible to almost anyone. Yet there are still many sections of the public, media and government who see cycling as a problem. This seems to be changing for the better.
- 11 MashupAustralia update
- No entry into MashupAustralia from me, but some very interesting appsto look at!
October
- 07 MashupAustralia - I wish I had time!
- MashupAustralia competition!
September
- 20 Steam Game Demo Reviews
- Reviews of Demos played through Steam: Bad Rats by Invent4; Time Gentlemen, Please! by Zombie Cow Studios; Mini Ninjas by Io-Interactive; Osmos by Hemisphere Games; QuantZ by Gamerizon Studio, inc; Audiosurf by Dylan Fitterer.
- 16 Online Game Distribution
- Services for downloading new, old, indie and mainstream games.
August
- 28 Pidgin: Adding Facebook and Twitter
- Adding Facebook and Twitter support to Pidgin.
- 23 Update on Kogan Netbook
- 16 Identity
- Ideas for federated identity - OpenID, email addresses, browser managed.
- 15 Tortoise SVN Cache causes Explorer to hang
- Fixing excessive CPU and I/O usage by Tortoise SVN.
- 15 iPod Touch on Linux
- Using iPods/iPhones with Linux. Why does Apple make it so hard?
- 07 Time for HTML5?
- Maybe it is time to take HTML5 seriously.
- 07 News: App Stores, XML flaw, Browser developments
- Will app stores be overtaken by the utlimate free app store: the web? XML apparently still need to be worried about, and heaps of browser news!
- 01 Wolfram Alpha and copyright
- Wolfram Alpha may or may not have copyright on it's output. This seems irrelevant - it's the engine that's the important and scarce resource.
July
- 30 Lie detectors
- On lie detectors, "Lie to Me", and the #SANDILANDSISADOUCHE situation.
- 30 Data Mining
- Data Mining resources and definition.
- 19 Foreign Exchange Cat
- 19 Semantics - eRDF, RDFa and micro-formats
- There are so many ways to indicate semantics, what's the best way? Search engines seem to finally be picking it up.
- 17 Will e-books go the way of the mp3?
- Publishers want to keep prices on e-books high, maintain control of the market, push physical books more than electronic books... any of this sounding familiar? It's almost step-for-step what the music industry did, and continues to do.
- 04 Ubuntu Netbook Remix resolution and dialog boxes
- New screen sizes being used on netbooks are causing troubles for web designers and OS developers.
June
- 29 HTML 5's canvas vs Adobe's Flash, Sun/Oracle's JavaFX, Microsoft's Silverlight
- Is it really HTML5's canvas vs Adobe's Flash, Sun/Oracle's JavaFX, Microsoft's Silverlight? Or could they work together?
- 19 A view on a leaf
- 19 Open Source, Flickr integration
- Open Source image algorithms, and more use of Flickr.
May
- 31 Another byte of news
- From trademark wins by the little guy and copyright education to non-anonymous anonymised data and Google's attempt to frame collaboration in terms of computing strengths.
- 21 Thoughts for the day
- New Dvd to hold 2000 movies using gold nanoparticles, a generation of pirates and gaming stats (from October 2008).
- 16 Webmaster tools
- Free tools that help make sure your site will be found through search engines.
- 16 Ubuntu Netbook Remix on Kogan Netbook Pro - Obsevations
- Making the change from gOS on the Kogan Netbook Pro to Ubuntu Netbook Remix (UNR). Well worth it.
- 16 Little Bits of Geekery
- Geekery! Aforge.Net Computer Vision and Artificial Intelligence c# library, preassembled circuitboards called LittleBits and Johnny Chung Lee's Wiimote projects.
- 15 Consolidating blogs
- 15 Some Cool, Interesting and Crazy things
- A kangaroo gets in trouble swimming in the surf, new 'creatures' begin life on the beach and the Maleo bird gets a beach-front reserve.
- 13 "Free is sometimes a barrier to adoption"
- 04 Oh noes!
April
- 29 Linux on the Desktop
- Even when Linux starts out with 100% market share in a new market, it quickly looses its share. What's going on?
- 26 World Intellectual Property Day
- Apparently today is "World Intellectual Property Day". From my limited understanding of IP, they have this backwards. The day is named after a means of correcting a perceived market failure - why should that be celebrated?
- 18 Kogan Agora Pro Netbook hands-on review
- A look at Kogan's first computer - a 10 inch netbook. Plenty to like, with some small issues that might require some attention. Definitely a player in the ultra-portable/netbook laptop field.
March
- 15 Camouflage Cat
- 15 When it's just not working...
- 15 Whoa, oil spill
- 13 Where are the Australian public data APIs?
- 05 Escaping from the clutches of the computer...
- 05 Not your Average Java Exceptions
- 05 Creative Commons - Adding Value and Pros and Cons
- Creative Commons are a great alternative to "all rights reserved" that can help to promote sharing. It does not apply equally well to all situations, but is a valuable tool in many areas.
February
- 23 Unix time - never boring
- 22 Movable Objects
- 22 CrunchBang Linux
- 22 Blog of Bluehost.com's President
- 22 The mind of a web developer
- 18 Five-In-A-Row Board Game
- A board game where 2 players attempt to get five of their pieces in a row.
- 18 Modifying text in javascript
- Changing text with javascript can produce interesting results.
- 18 Importing from Blogger to Textpattern
- There are a number of ways to do it, but they're all complex.
- 16 Found recently: JSLint - javascript verifier
- "JSLint is a JavaScript program that looks for problems in JavaScript programs."
- 14 We see the future!
- 14 anotherbyte.net - everything that bytes
- Welcome to Anotherbyte.net. I've decided that I've spent enough time muddling through using free hosted blogs... It's time to do it myself.
2008
December
September
August
- 14 LDAP Queries
- 14 ASP.Net Update Panel and Timer
- UpdatePanel and Timer gotcahas
June
- 16 Extracting Plain Text for Indexing
- Extracting plain text from PDF files.
May
- 26 Date formats in SQL Server
-
Formatting dates in T-SQL.
- 25 Ubuntu amd64 solution for flash
- 21 I has a flavr, and i keeps it!
- 21 Argh... argh!
- Leash is not right.. need mop handle.
- 21 Get back here!
- 18 Rawr?
- 18 Look out for... the chair!
- 14 ASP.Net DataBinding: Container.DataItem
- 06 Uploading Files
April
- 28 Ubuntu 8.04 experiences
- 22 Web Services in Flash
- 15 Comparing Dates in SQL
-
Comparing dates, specifically start and end dates.
- 11 Paging data using SQL
- 10 ASP.Net Validation
- Useful links to aid in validating in ASP.Net.
- 10 Database Conundrum
