Musings of a Software Engineer

Wow its been a while since I’ve posted here, so much to my good intentions of trying to post at least once a week.  Where does the time go!
This is slightly off topic, one of our local radio stations has created an iPhone app (actually saying that just about every radio station has an app [...]

So the election for the UK was finally announced this week, probably the worse unannounced date!  All the media outlets have been jumping on the bandwagon with some fantastic but probably useless election tools.
The BBC for example has the election calculator where you can spend all of, well lets be honest a minute or so.  [...]

I was in Cambridge a couple of weeks ago and I went to the Cambridge University Press Shop.  Like a good geek I thought I would look at the Computer Science books that were available and see if there was anything of interest.  I was surprised that the shelf was so small, but then I [...]

Better late than never but even Garfield is using a mobilde phone now!!!

Wow has it really been 10 years since the Millennium Bug “hit” the world (or Y2K or Year2000 or armageddon!).  I remember all the news reports about airplanes were going to fall from the skys and Hospital equipment were going to blow up and attack the people they were suppose to be looking after.  I [...]

Every year it always surprises me that when thesnow falls ont the UK the whole country comes to a halt. Maybe I’m getting old and not remembering my younger years but I’m sure itnever use to be this bad! Could itbe the more technology we have the less ability we can cope with [...]

I’ve been looking at setting up an eshop on one of my wordpress accounts and for the downloadable content page for eshop it shows that there is a max upload size.  After alot of hunting around and googling (which I thought might have been easier to find!)
Turns out it was quick an easy find when [...]

I’m a user of a subversion server on a day to day basis and its probably the best free code repository that is out there.  It is fantastic to use and really simple to update and manage using things like Tortoise SVN.
But today I released that our repository had not been tagged to ensure that [...]

What a nightmare… I’ve not really been paying much attention to the 100s of spam comments that I was getting so they had built up to a large amount.  So today I thought I would finally sort them out by just deleting all comments.  I think there was only one good comment anyway.
So I went [...]

Wow its amazing I setup this blog with the intention of posting things to it every week at least once a week.  I think the last time I posted something was about 3 months ago!!! where does the time go.  Well I’m determinded to turn this around in december and attempt to keep an hour [...]