Crappy Linux Twitter Clients
I've about had it with the range of Twitter clients on offer in Linux. Twitux seems capable of producing nothing but "Timeline Parse Error" messages these days, so I went looking for something else....
View ArticleCustom keyboard layout for entering Latin characters
I started a Graduate Diploma in Humanities at the University of New England this year and got sick of my Open Office macro toolbars for entering special characters. So, after some googling, I decided...
View ArticleTwo years using Linux and I’m in computing heaven
I was given cause to appreciate Linux this morning and although I may have started out with specific examples, this post seems to have ended up as a bit of a ramble on why I'll never go back to Windows...
View ArticleDesert Colour Scheme for NetBeans
Eyeball a white screen whilst programming for too long and your eyes are going to hurt, so a sympathetic colour scheme is essential. This Christmas I intend to read Programming Clojure, a book I bought...
View ArticleBulk renaming files in Linux
For some time it's been annoying me that the various GUI file renaming options in Linux weren't quite good enough. They either require manual previewing/actioning each and every directory or those that...
View ArticleSelf Flagellation with Objective-C and XCode
This post is called Self Flagellation with Objective-C and XCode because I think that is an apt description of what I’m doing. In case you don’t know what flagellation is, this wikipedia article will...
View ArticleMy First iPhone App: Cribbage Calculator
My first iPhone app was made available on the iTunes Store today: Cribbage Calculator. I've been playing cribbage with my next-door neighbour for almost a year now and sometimes you come across a hand...
View ArticleCoding on Apple is still a love/hate relationship
So, it’s been almost two years since I posted anything here, and it’s just over two years (almost to the day), since I last had a good whinge about XCode. It has only been laziness that has kept me...
View ArticleExt JS 6 Formulae to Combine Date and Time fields
My brother has been on my case to blog something about web development; he blogs at the drop of a hat whereas my offerings are usually spread years apart. I develop using Ext JS for a living (among...
View ArticleThe Web is a great, big, polished turd
Web development isn’t fun anymore. It used to be that you picked a server-side language, typed up some human-readable HTML, sprinkled it with a little bit of JavaScript to improve the user experience,...
View ArticleMP3 Track Order Nightmares on MZD Connect
I have a 2015 Mazda 3 SP-25 which has been driving me nuts for some time now. Apart from its frequent habit of forgetting which track I was listening to whenever I start the car, it has been playing...
View ArticleOracle SQL Developer’s Laziness
Come on, Oracle. Is it that hard to scan a directory to look for one of your own products? The path I gave it was “C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_152”. Was that so hard? If you’d like some help in...
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