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Speaking at Scotch on the Rocks

  • January 23rd, 2008
  • Posted in Tech

Yup I’ll be speaking at Scotch on the Rocks in Edinburgh, Scotland in june. I’m very very excited, and hopefully won’t be completely boring – I’m speaking alongside a raft of the top people in our industry so a little intimidating Maybe I’ll just get drunk before my presentation… If you’re going Related posts:

  1. Speaking at Melbourne CFCamp
  2. Scotch talk slides
  3. Belated Scotch post
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Chemists

  • December 15th, 2007
  • Posted in Tech

Anyone out there have any experience with chemistry and/or chemical biology? I have some questions I’d like to ask you if so, so drop me an email, I could use your help Believe it or not it *is* actually on topic too… Tweet This Post No related posts.[ READ MORE ]

Melbourne CFCamp Report

  • November 23rd, 2007
  • Posted in Tech

CFCamp in Melbourne was brilliant. It wasn’t the greatest turnout but we had a good number of high caliber people there and the talks were excellent. I particularly liked Peter Bell’s talk about DSL’s and Software Product Lines – I’ll definitely be following up with Peter to learn more about this, as this is exactly Related posts:

  1. Speaking at Melbourne CFCamp
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Finally, a good skype alternative

  • October 2nd, 2007
  • Posted in Tech

Skype has been getting worse and worse lately, with outages and constant errors, disconnections and message failures. On top of that, the company’s business practices seem to be getting less and less friendly too – fortunately an alternative is now available for those of use who rely heavily on conferencing for business: Gizmo! http://www.gizmoproject.com/screen-shots.php I’ve No related posts.[ READ MORE ]

Speaking at Melbourne CFCamp

  • August 24th, 2007
  • Posted in Tech

It looks as though we’ll be getting a CFCamp in Melbourne after all, through the efforts of Mark Mandel. The downside is he’s conned me into speaking I’m giving a half hour talk on “Enterprise development for the rest of us” – basically what it really means to be an enterprise Related posts:

  1. Melbourne CFCamp Report
  2. Speaking at Scotch on the Rocks
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Trac on CentOS

  • June 2nd, 2007
  • Posted in Tech

I have seen Trac before but until recently never really used it. In a project I’ve been working on with Codename:Tuesday we’ve been using Trac as the central source for bugs / tickets, documentation, UCTs etc. It’s a very nice tool, with SVN integration and a ticketing system that has just what you No related posts.[ READ MORE ]

Frustration

  • May 17th, 2007
  • Posted in Tech

I just spent ages searching for this for someone, and thought I might as well post it here. This is how I often feel reading the threads on cfaussie… Tweet This Post No related posts.[ READ MORE ]

CF Startup and shutdown on OSX

  • April 30th, 2007
  • Posted in Tech

There’s a simple and easy way to control CF instances on OSX (or flex / jrun for that matter). Get a little program called Lingon. Once installed, run it and click the “New” button (top left). Choose “Users Daemons” On the resulting screen, set the “Label” field as something like “CFMX Service” Use the plus icon to No related posts.[ READ MORE ]

Flex goes open source!

  • April 26th, 2007
  • Posted in Tech

Wow. look at Ted Patrick’s blog – Flex is being made open source. What a brilliant decision! The guys on the team must have done some very hard work to get this to happen, and I am absolutely over the moon – not only does it open flex development to more people Related posts:

  1. Google’s internal data format open sourced
  2. Flex 5 day Course – Day 1
  3. Flex 5 day course
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Flex 2 – Webcam motion tracking part 2

  • March 5th, 2007
  • Posted in Tech

Woohoo! I have the motion tracking working properly now. I spent ages mucking about with tiles and looping over individual pixels, then ages more trying to understand matrixes and convolution filters. I finally came up with a method where I apply what is basically a blur filter to the snapshot to remove Related posts:

  1. First Flex 2 App – Webcam motion tracking
  2. Flex 2 – Webcam motion tracking part 3
  3. Flex 5 day Course – Day 1
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