Week in Review – 2010-33

by paul on August 21, 2010

Know of any companies in Sydney that engage in REAL agile projects – properly? Let me know, I’m interested!
I had a javascript drop-down menu that youtube video interferred with – when the menu dropped down, the youtube object covered it! I found the answer here - http://geekswithblogs.net/steveclements/archive/2007/03/03/107839.aspx – where the solution is simple:
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Week in Review – 2010-31

by paul on August 9, 2010

I’ve noticed a bunch of websites that just don’t pay any attention to detail. Little things:

banking sites that don’t remember your settings (i.e. for exporting statements) and you have to set them every time you export, for every account
log forms you fill it to register, and when you fail validation (like getting the CAPTCHA wrong), [...]

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Week in Review – 2010-30

August 2, 2010

Looking for some icons? Check out the fantastic work available @ webtoolkit4.me – there are some really good icon sets.
I’m always trying to find better ways of doing things and find incredible resistance to even the simplest of improvements – things that I would consider no-brainers end up subjected to business cases and long winded [...]

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Week in Review – 2010-29

July 26, 2010

I’ve installed WorldCommunityGrid on my media center, which is on 24*7 – may as well use that spare CPU time for good! I’ve been watching my ranking slowly get better, starting over 300,000 and now after 21 days of run time I’m ranked (by points) in the mid 200,000s. Along comes a friend of mine [...]

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Week in Review – 2010-28

July 18, 2010

I finally got a new battery for my laptop – it only took 3 weeks rather than the estimated 6, so finally I’m back online – on the train. It’s barely doing the job though, a new battery barely gets me to and from work – I obviously need to work closer to home! I’m [...]

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Week in Review – 2010-27

July 8, 2010

I’ve recently made updates to my grails plugins to ensure they work on Grails 1.3. I hadn’t touched them for a while, so it took a bit of effort. I haven’t had the opportunity to use Grails much lately, so I had to catch up on changes. One issue I have is that its impossible [...]

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Week in Review – 2010-17

May 2, 2010

Ubuntu 10.04 is here! I’ve been running Ubuntu exclusively since (I think) around 6.XX and it just keeps getting better.

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Introducing JtSysMon

May 1, 2010

JtSysMon is a very simple monitoring tool which will poll resources and time the response. The response time is logged to a database, and from there, you can see which resources are either slow or failing/erroring.

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Week in Review – 2010-15

April 18, 2010

Great new technologies coming, tips for VirtualBox, looking for a *simple* monitoring tool, not enough time for all the projects I want to work on, and Ubuntu 10 is nearly here!

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Getting familiar with Android

April 3, 2010

I’m getting started with the Android platform, and loving it. A familiar environment means I can be productive now, and with free and open platforms it just gets better.

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