Interactive fiction
Great! Finally found a decent IF interpreter for android: text fiction Now playing Anchorhead on my tablet. Really liking the SMS style interface, and it works really well with the android slidy keybo…
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Mobile development on Android and iOS
I've been doing a spot of iOS and android development for some sample apps today, which I've not done for a while. TL/DR: Yuck, ObjectiveC is a horrible blast from the past. Yuck, Java is a horrible b…
MongoDb optimisation for scale
I redesigned the schema for one of our MongoDb clusters today. In doing so, I managed to reduce request times by 1.5 orders of magnitude! We're now sustaining request times of roughly 30ms. The first…
PHP MongoDb replicaset gotcha
Ran into a gotcha with PHP+MongoDb the other day. Now, PHP ain't my favourite language, but its what Piwik is written in so I'm stuck with it for that. I've partially ported Piwik to use mongodb (vs m…
Return to the joggler
Now that Intel have a slightly less crap driver for the Poulsbo/GMA500 chipset, with the more recent EMGD driver, I've converted one of my O2 Jogglers to be a touchscreen media player in the kitchen.…
A Walk in the Wind
A 15 minute walk in the winds currently battering Edinburgh. NOTE: This is a binaural recording; you MUST use headphones to get the proper effect!
check_fus
While I'm at it, Check\fus Downloader is a windows app, which can download and decrypt official Samsung firmware updates directly from Samsung's servers. Avoids having to hunt about on forums!
GAN / UMA / WIFI Calling / Signal Booster on the Galaxy S II
I've been happily using my Galaxy S II for the last few months, and of course I've replaced the original firmware with a custom one. However, recently a colleague acquired one as well. His had the sto…
Duplicity
Meet my favourite new backup tool: Duplicity. It can do incremental encrypted backups to a variety of destinations, for example ssh, webdav, Amazon S3. It also seems fast compared to other solutions I…
HD DVB-T2 terrestrial TV using the PCTV Nanostick 290e
I've been following this project for a while; I've even contributed some reverse engineering work to it. (I bought one of the devices from dabs a while back). Note that the majority of the work has be…