Hope for the global village
31 July 2010
We are in the information age, will our society adapt and prosper or fail and decline?
We need a thoughout integration of the desktop and the web - not Tab Candy superfast jellyfish
28 July 2010
'Tab Candy' is a high level graphical user interface that might make it into a future version of Firefox. Lord help us all if it does.
Taming Firefox memory usage
15 June 2010
Firefox uses a lot of my computers memory, here are the things I looked at to put it right.
Can't win here
04 June 2010
In the recent election, some of the parties put charts into their literature. In this post I analyse their accuracy.
Let us contemplate existence
23 May 2010
I continue my review of the book "Programming the Semantic Web". In this post look at the key topic of ontologies.
Still swimming in the Semantic Web
23 May 2010
I continue my review of the book "Programming the Semantic Web". In this post we talk about RDFs.
Metadata is our data
19 May 2010
In my last post, I talked about talking some first tentative steps into the semantic web. Two of the commentators suggested that I should check out the book "Programming the Semantic Web" published by O'Reilly. In this post I talk about what I have read so far.
Headfirst into the Semantic Web
12 May 2010
OWL is the Web Ontology Language. In this post I talk about available Python modules working with OWL.
Cross Site Request Forgery protection in Django
07 May 2010
Stopping Django's Cross Site Request Forgery protection from breaking your site.
AMD64 Ubuntu 10.04 and Flash
07 May 2010
I installed Ubuntu 10.04 64-bit version and then installed Flash, I then found Firefox crashing randomly. This post explains the solution.
A basic search box with Django
29 November 2009
This post explains how I made the simple search box for this site using Django.
Bazaar version script
28 November 2009
I talk about my Bazaar version script, use it in any Python package that is version controlled using Bazaar, then the user of a package can easily see an automatically generated minor version number.
Making a Django form field using aggregated values
18 November 2009
The Django admin list_filter function provides a nice way of searching by the contents of fields. How do we implement that in the public side of a web application?
Countries in Django
17 November 2009
In this post I talk about the CountryField that I used in my Django application.
This week - sheep are not going to destroy the world
19 October 2009
The latest installment in my series about what I have read on the Internet recently. We look at computing after applications, the problem of spam email, whether cows and sheep will end the world and whether Linux will save it.
Three classic command line tips
17 October 2009
In this post we look at downloading a real player stream, checking your HTTP headers and coping with memory hogging Java programs.
Mobile Wireless Questions and Answers
21 June 2009
Some interesting questions and answers from my local Linux Group, the responses were written by Linux wireless expert Quentin Wright.
Visualising your favourite keywords in Twitter
18 June 2009
Having Twitter messages splat over your screen is great at home, at a party or club. Here are some cool sites that allow you to do that.
Greatest Ever Free Books
28 May 2009
The web is full of free e-books. However are they any good? Read this post to find out.
