By jamie | December 3, 2008
I spent all day last Saturday at Homecamp at the Electrical Engineering building at Imperial College London. Homecamp is effectively a hack-day about Home monitoring, home automation reducing energy and energy resource requirements in your home.
Previous to hearing of the day, I had become interested in these subjects because I had seen Andy Piper’s Current [...]
By jamie | October 18, 2008
As part of my efforts to try to help Jim Mckeeth’s push to get Delphi Programming the recognition that it deserves I recently dug out a copy of my orginal Borland Branded “Delphi Man” Super Hero. If you haven’t already got him then I would encourage you to print and cut out a copy for [...]
I realise everyone is sick of hearing about the iPod Touch / iPhone version 2 firmware updates however I felt that I would happily ignore that so I could share a few things with you. About 36 hours after reading about various iPhone users receiving their updates via links sent over twitter I noticed the [...]
Simply terrible. This is a sample of a CAPTCHA shown to users of German file-sharing service Rapidshare. In case you skipped over the first part (as I did at first) to enter the letters shown, you’d be wrong. You have to work out which letters are hiding a cat and which ones are hiding a [...]
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By jamie | January 10, 2008
There has been a minor storm brewing for a while now within the Rails community and one which I have predicted and written about (at length) last year.
It began with a disgruntled rant from Zed Shaw who was responsible for the Mongerel engine for rails. Zed seems to be disheartened with the Rails development community [...]
I am a Delphi Developer, Web Developer and general technology enthusiast. I am an advocate of hobbyist development and of free or easy to obtain tools to support this kind of grass-roots adoption.
