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Author Archives: Angus Hardie
Chalkboard paint
Chalkboard Paint makes a chalkboard anywhere you can paint. Some ideas on what to actually do with the stuff on the walls. I like the idea of a calendar made of the stuff.
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SoyLatte 10.6 bundle template
This is a simple template to use SoyLatte in Mac OS X 10.6 and have it appear in the JavaPreferences system. You need to copy all of the contents of the /usr/local/soylatte16-i386-1.0.3/ directory into the directory contents/Home (inside the package), … Continue reading
Mac OS X will still have Java in the future.
There has been lots of stuff written recently about how Java on the Mac has been deprecated. The reality is that one particular Java runtime has been deprecated: the one that Apple write themselves. Java as a language will still … Continue reading
Drizzle JDBC supports MySQL
I came across the Drizzle JDBC driver today, which seems very interesting Most interesting though, is that it supports MySQL and it is BSD licensed. This could solve some of the licensing problems that applications like SQLEditor run into. I’m … Continue reading
A Microsoft vision of the future
A vision of a technology future that is almost magical in its fluidity and the absence of any obvious equipment. This is what the future should be:
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Helpful forums?
Spotted recently in a technical forum (which shall remain nameless): Your answers are useless. Thank you anyway. I found answers on my questions from another source. Although I still don’t know what the final answer was, alas…
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Real buyers getting tired of speculators
Real cocoa buyers, who are probably chocolate manufacturers, are getting tired of excessive speculation in the cocoa market; they’ve threatened to move from London to unspecified US cocoa futures exchanges if something isn’t done to improve things: Telegraph Article (Third … Continue reading
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Apple WWDC videos
Brilliant work on Apple’s part in releasing all of the WWDC videos to registered developers. In previous years these were only available for a fee (I seem to remember $500), so including them is very nice.
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Pay to play?
back in my day, we didn’t pay to win a video game … we simply played them well Marketing crazy
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SQLEditor + Django
Good news everyone… the new Django plugin for SQLEditor is now available. It allows you to import, edit and export Django model classes with SQLEditor. Django Plugin Page There are some limitations still, in particular it doesn’t support all of … Continue reading
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Election Day 2010 – Remember to Vote!
It’s the day of the UK general election. It’s your democratic duty to vote! If you don’t vote, you can’t complain about the government we get. So please vote 🙂
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Warburtons Ad
Warburtons Bread Advert It made me laugh, anyway. (On their own site too)
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safari supports pdf in img tag
I didn’t know this before but it definitely seems to work. SVG is more compatible for web pages, though this could be useful for embedded webkit apps. From High DPI Websites
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Idea: EU prize for learning all of the European languages
In the nature of the European cooperation, I propose that the European Union should give out prizes to people who can speak significant numbers of european languages. Perhaps 1 million euros for a person speaking all of the EU significant … Continue reading
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iPhone multi-tasking
A thought occurs to me (although I don’t do iPhone development). One possible approach to multi-tasking on the iphone might be to allow a background thread that complied with some sandbox requirements to execute with access to certain apis only. … Continue reading
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Wanted: Cookie categories in web browsers
Given that I delete my browser cookies fairly regularly, it would be useful to be able to divide them into categories.Then I could delete marketing and tracking cookies without affecting more important login cookies. Some categories I would like: 1) … Continue reading
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Portal for Mac!
Valve have announced Portal for Mac. Played it for the first time a couple of weeks ago and have been wondering how best to play it at home. From April I’ll be able to play it (and lots of other … Continue reading
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Big changes to Mac Developer Program
Apple have rearranged their Mac developer program so that it now costs only $99 and seems to have only one paid variant rather than the three previously available. (Student, Select, Premier). The online only variant is still available and still … Continue reading
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Rails Migrations and Schemas
A schema.rb file is typically a ruby script containing a call to the ActiveRecord::Schema.define method. A rails migration is a ruby class which inherits from ActiveRecord::Migration and contains a method called up The useful fact that I realized only after … Continue reading
Tea and Coffee and newspaper articles
So another one of these articles, shock horror, some public body has spent thousands of pounds buying hot drinks for their staff. Clearly, the whole lot of them should be hanged … except, if you look at the figures quoted, … Continue reading
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