Net-top-box, InfoGlue and MIME/media types…
We run a “digital signage” screen in our foyer – in other words it’s a large plasma screen displaying some static content (and also ‘live’ content such as TV) that is simply served from a box. The box...
View ArticleEasy Prism
Prism is a simple new application from the Mozilla group. Basically you use Prism to create an application icon for a single web site. For example, for accessing this blog, I used Prism to create...
View ArticleScribefire for Firefox – A useful blogging extension
I’ve recently found myself using the Firefox Extension Scribefire more and more. It hides away nicely as a single button on your status bar, but when opened shows itself to be a well-functioned editor...
View ArticleJoomla, only half a CMS
I’m building a web site for my village and I decided to use a new CMS for some fun. The two apparently popular choices were Joomla and Drupal, both PHP based with similar funtionality on the...
View ArticleAdBlock Plus, Filterset G and Firefox speed
For a number of years I’ve been running Firefox (FF) with advert blocking extensions to make the whole web experience more pleasant. Originally this was using AdBlock but for the last couple of years...
View ArticleDecision Making
Need a quick way to decide who does something: http://www.youdrawstraws.com/index.cfm There are two modes: An instant on-screen version, useful if everyone is in the same room. A group session for use...
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Adding charts to Spring web applications with JFreeChart
I’m currently in the process of adding some reports based on data stored in a database. With annotated configuration in Spring 2.5 and the flexibility of JFreeChart, I was surprised at what can be...
View ArticleSteve Jobs: Pull your finger out!
Heard of iTunes? Yes, so have I. Now, have you heard of something called x64, or 64-bit? Yes? Apple haven’t. You see, after buying an iPod to use on my x64 system, I’d quite like to use iTunes as well....
View ArticleA New Application Development Architecture
I attended the 2009 Hotsos Symposium, an excellent Oracle database performance tuning conference, in Dallas. The event was a great opportunity to hear world-renowned Oracle performance experts present....
View ArticleDNSSEC incident report
We had an incident two weeks ago with our DNSSEC signing system causing it to accidentally release a new Zone-signing-key into our live zone file. We have spent the last two weeks looking into how this...
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