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19 Apr 2010

Android - Multi-line Select List

342 words, ~1 min read

It turns out that it is surprisingly easy to add a multi line select list to the UI. There are four main parts to it. …

18 Apr 2010

Synergy with Linux Server & Mac Client

162 words, ~0 min read

I  borrowed a mac to try and play with iPhone development. I already have a linux box (running Ubuntu 9.10). Anyone who …

15 Dec 2009

Perfect Linux

487 words, ~1 min read

According to Brian Lunduke { Ubuntu 9.10 is almost perfect { and I concur.

Being a bit of a purist, I ran Debian {for …

15 Dec 2009

Twitter is better

262 words, ~1 min read

A little while ago, I wrote about my pet peeves to do with twitter, and while they probably didn’t read my …

23 Mar 2009

Vista Guest, Linux Host, VirtualBox, Host Networking - Bridge

156 words, ~0 min read

One would think that it would be straightforward, work off the bat, or at least have some reasonable documentation. …

17 Mar 2009

mmmmmmm hhhhhh ddddd

688 words, ~2 min read

Krish , my little brother ;-) recently wrote about HD and I loved that article and agree with him wholeheartedly. Over …

10 Mar 2009

Database Systems Compared

756 words, ~3 min read

My first experiences of a computer started with DBase III+ which is now dBASE , then went on to Foxpro , now Microsoft …

09 Mar 2009

Making Twitter Better

793 words, ~3 min read

I think that twitter is a fantastic service and has a bright future. However, like a lot of new things, the question of …

04 Mar 2009

Making Twitter Faster

578 words, ~2 min read

From my perspective, Twitter has a really really interesting technical problem to solve. How to store and retrieve a …

10 Feb 2009

Accepting Google

429 words, ~1 min read

Jeff Atwood (Coding Horror) correctly points out that when we refer to search engines, we are really only referring to …