Category Archives: Technology

Help a brother out

Posted on May 20, 2010 by Alex

If you program with Perl and wouldn’t mind completing a Perl programming survey, I’d appreciate it.

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Blast from the past: JobSurge assignment

Posted on July 26, 2009 by Alex

In the second half of 2005 (the first year of my uni degree), I took a subject called Introduction to Internet Technology.  Out of all the subjects I’ve taken so far for my degree, this one easily affected my career … Continue reading →

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Just save the damn data

Posted on June 2, 2009 by Alex

I’ve never been able to find address book software that functions quite the way I would like it to.  As a result, I’ve often considered writing my own.  But I never quite get there, because I end up generalising my … Continue reading →

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I wish I could tag my music like I tag my photos

Posted on March 20, 2009 by Alex

The software I use to manage my photos is awesome; everything essentially sits in a single folder with no special naming, and the photos have “tags” (like Alex, Footscray, Kebabbage, Engrish, Moustache) associated with them.  No need to organise photos … Continue reading →

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Heads up: Apache 1.3 removed from Debian

Posted on October 28, 2008 by Alex

Have you upgraded your Debian installation from Etch to Lenny?  I have.  Are you somewhat surprised to find things breaking because the apache-perl binary has disappeared?  I was.

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Reasons not to switch to Ubuntu Edgy just yet

Posted on November 19, 2006 by Alex

After being so impressed with the quality and usability of Ubuntu v6.06 (Dapper Drake), I was downloading v6.10 (Edgy Eft) the moment it was available and I immediately installed it on the two computers here.  Having always experienced badness when … Continue reading →

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Whee, Java!

Posted on September 27, 2006 by Alex

I’ve come to really enjoy Java over the past few weeks.  I recently discovered the Java Collections Framework (JCF)— Highly recommended reading on the JCF —and if you love Perl’s arrays and hashes (or Python’s lists and dictionaries) as much … Continue reading →

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