Well not much work has been carried out on my messenger for about 3 weeks now, real life got on top of me with the news that baby number 2 is on the way for me and my wife. This combined with an exceptionally heavy work load for my...
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Decided to give Mint Linux 17 cinnamon 64bit a try
Decided to give Mint Linux 17 cinnamon 64bit a try here over the weekend, as I fancied trying to use Linux again for a bit here. Mint is quite polished, doesn’t feel as homebrew as Kbuntu did to me, it doesn’t have the weirdness of Ubuntu with the Unity...
PHP instant messenger ideas
I had some quite good ideas for how my new instant messenger will work. I began the build as a straight HTML/PHP/CSS website built using the CodeIgniter framework. To begin with I was working locally off my own testing server and building for PC desktop browsers only. My aim...
Building an instant messenger with PHP, HTML and CSS
At the request of some friends I have started up a personal project to build an instant messenger. I am creating this using PHP, JQuery, XHTML, and CSS. jQuery – http://jquery.com I chose the codeIgniter framework as the base for my build as I have always like how MVC...
Bought some new bits
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Fedora 20
I have been using Fedora 20 as my desktop and laptop work environments recently, and so far I have to say I quite like it, its very quick and easy to use, and all of the various programs I use for work are all available to install on it. It...
lEi KINO Mini ITX build
Finally finished the build of my lEi KINO Mini ITX firewall box, it has 1.6Ghz CPU, 1GB Ram, 80GB Sata HDD, and DVD drive, Dual Gigabit Ethernet ports onboard (hence firewall), passively cooled (so very quiet), along with a 250W PSU. I stuck Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (see http://www.ubuntu.com ) on...
New vps server as backup for my main webserver
I just bought a cheap vps server for $30 annually from crowncloud.net, it has specs of an 8 core cpu, 3 GB ram, 50 GB Disk, 3 Tb bandwidth. My plan is to use it as backup server of archive files of my webserver files and website’s, though with...
Just been out for meeting with a client to discuss their new website.
I created this post to demonstrate how easy it is to update a wordpress website from your android phone using voice to text built in to android phones.
My new USB 3 32GB stick only £10.50
My new USB 3 32GB memory stick which only cost £10.50 from eBay turned up, not sure how the seller makes any money on these! It claims read speeds of 70Mb/s and writes of 18Mb/s when plugged in a USB 3 port which is pretty quick!