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The Best Android Apps and Utilities for Android 4.1 Jelly Bean
Submitted on Sep 17, 2012, 12:23 p.m.
It's Androids turn this time. Here's a list of must-have Android Apps for my Jelly Bean update: 1) It bugs the hell out of me that there isn't a decent and simple note taking app in Android....Digital Media Preservation - Why Media Organizations Can’t Archive
Submitted on Sep 17, 2012, 11:59 a.m.
Earlier this year I was fortunate enough to lead a study that examined the challenges faced by media organizations in managing digital content - in particular digital archives. The...Getting Started with Nokogiri and XML in Ruby
Submitted on Jun 13, 2012, 8:50 a.m.
Here's a short post on getting started with Nokogiri - a Ruby gem that wraps libxml. I'm writing this because well, the docs at http://nokogiri.org/ kind of suck. I wanted to read a simple XML...Bitmask and Bitwise Operations in Ruby
Submitted on May 29, 2012, 2:49 a.m.
Here's a solution to a problem I was trying to solve in Ruby. I wanted to create a 23 bit data structure, that would hold three values. A 14 bit year, a 4 bit month and a 5 bit day. Each of these...The Long Road Home
Submitted on Nov 09, 2011, 8:12 p.m.
I’ve toyed with a few titles for this post, including - ‘My Kingdom for a Backslash’, or ‘Fish Don’t Know They’re in Water’. In the end I felt ‘The Long Road /home’ was the most fitting. This post...iPhone 4S and NFC
Submitted on Oct 13, 2011, 12:21 a.m.
This link to Macworld was sent to me by a colleague - "iPhone 4S: Why no NFC chip?". I think it's another excellent example of editorial polyfiller. How can a market be created for NFC technology -...John Seddon - Re-thinking IT keynote speech part 1
Submitted on Sep 30, 2011, 11:47 p.m.
Brilliant - a must watch for all systems people and managers... {"preview_thumbnail":"/sites/default/files/public/styles/video_embed_wysiwyg_preview/public/video_thumbnails/hbNsQFd8DQw.jpg?itok=HUa...Master's Thesis
Submitted on Sep 25, 2011, 2:13 a.m.
I completed my master's degree in information security from Royal Holloway, University of London this May. It took a little while for the results to come out, and to be sure that my thesis had been...The Best Mac OS X Utilities
Submitted on Sep 23, 2011, 10:51 p.m.
Having recently joined the 'cult of Apple' - here's what I consider to be the minimum required set of Mac OS X utilities and helper applications for any Mac OS X installation: 1) Quicksilver:...A Beautiful Developer’s Font
Submitted on Mar 15, 2011, 8:34 a.m.
I’ve been experimenting with the development environment of my Linux setup recently. I’m running two virtual machines via VMWare Workstation from my Windows 7 PC. One is an Ubuntu 10.10 install...