20.08.12

Note to Self on Being a Coder

Posted in Blogroll, Random Thoughts, Tech at 7:46 pm by Liv

There’s no point in hiding the fact that quite for a while I’ve been dealing with a few rather messy projects — and in doing so, together with others working on these, I have found come across all sorts of shenanigans and oddities (caused quite often by myself and not just the others) which, with a bit of fore-thought and a bit of “voice of experience”, I feel could have been avoided. As such, what follows is just a random set of thoughts on various coding and IT-related matters from yours truly (the angry mob — as The Kaiser Chiefs have put it )

I suggest you put together a similar one, if you’re a coder yourself, and revisit it often — being reminded occasionally of the simplest things does seem to help! And when you’re buried deep in the guts of a complex project, you quite likely won’t remember all of these — having them “there” in front of you, I found it helps…

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27.03.12

Carbonite — Feature Request

Posted in Blogroll, News, Product Ideas, Random Thoughts, Tech at 8:32 pm by Liv

I’m broadcasting this on all channels at the moment, just so I can get the attention of the guys in Carbonite and hopefully get this feature added to their (otherwise excellent!) software. So if you’re a Carbonite user and you find this feature I’m asking for is worth anything, would love some feedback on this post — I’m not gonna ask you to sign a petition but safety is in numbers sometimes, so if it’s a few of us hopefully it will make a convincing case for Carbonite to slot this in.

As a user of Carbonite, hopefully you know what this is all about (I know this is providing a bit of advertising for them, but I feel I do need to provide a bit of context here too): it’s a backup/restore solution; you select which directories to back up and the software copies them transparently for you “in the cloud” when files are changed.

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16.07.08

Terragen

Posted in Random Thoughts, Tech at 4:13 pm by Liv

How’s this for a cool 3D surface generation tool: just found this piece of software called Terragen which generates some cool terrain surfaces! Give it a try here: http://www.planetside.co.uk/terragen/productmain.shtml — wicked!

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17.12.06

Customize Your SquirrelMail Login Page

Posted in Blogroll, News, Tech at 2:06 pm by Liv

If you’re using SquirrelMail then you are probably a bit fed up with the plain look-and-feel of the product. I’m not against it, it’s just that it DOES look kind of amateurish, unfortunately While there is currently work in progress to make it more customizable and skinnable and so on in a future release, most of us are stuck with the standard (read “poor” ) look-and-feel for now. There are of course plugins that help a bit with that — not that much unfortunately, but if you use your JavaScript skills on top of some you get some wicked results.

So I’ve started looking at these plugins and how one can add JavaScript on top of it to make SquirrelMail more appealing to the eye.

Since I’ve only just started experimenting with this, I thought I’d start with the Login Page. And I figured out a way of how to make the login page look better. You can read more about it on my main site, by following this link.

Happy squirrelling!

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05.12.06

Solar System Live

Posted in Blogroll, News, Random Thoughts at 2:55 pm by Liv

Have you seen this “live” Solar system simulator? Check out http://www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/Solar — really cool!

And don’t try to keep refreshing it to see how the planets move The scale of the simulation is small enough so you can just about see a diferrence from day to day. You can try playing with the dates and increase/decrease by a month though Even so, not too much movement from Pluto as you would expect — lazy git! lol

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