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New VoiceXML/XQuery Demo
I’ve got a new VoiceXML/XQuery article coming out, and IBM have asked that a demo of the service is live. The service is an interface RSS reader – you get to choose the topic and the feed (currently only four static feeds are provided), then it wi…
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Acorn, Pixelmator and Iris alternatives to Photoshop
I’ve had Acorn in my list of applications to review for months, and I’ve only just got round to it. I wish I’d got there earlier. Acorn is quick and powerful, and that’s because it employs your GPU to do soe of the processing, and it includes a nu…
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MySQL Documentation and Debian/Ubuntu
We’ve got a lot of queries recently on the MySQL docs team address about the documentation (particularly man pages) for MySQL on Debian/Ubuntu. The source of the original problem was reported as a Debian bug. The assumption from the reading of the…
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Setting up the developer stack issues
There’s a great post on Coding Horror about Configuring the Stack. Basically the gripe is with the complexity of installing the typical developer stack, in this case on Windows, using Visual Studio. My VS setup isn’t vastly different to the one Je…
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XBOX360 and XBOX games
You know, I am consistently (and pleasantly) surprised at the compatibility of old XBOX games on the on the XBOX360. When you consider that the games are running and emulation (the platforms are completely different), the speed difference between …
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Controlling OS X volume through Cron
One of the biggest annoyances of working from home is that with the computers in the room next door, the volume of your computers can cause a problem if someone suddenly calls you on Skype, or your backup software suddenly kicks in and starts beep…
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Busy New Year
Wow – if you hadn’t noticed, it’s been pretty quiet round here recently, and the reason is that things have simply been very busy. I’ve been churning out the IBM stuff (including some that hasn’t made it yet) – the main highlight is the big three-…
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Understanding the Virtual Machine/SOA migration
Here is a quick diagram of the differences between the model for migrating existing applications from the traditional model to the Virtual Machine or the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) model.