Blog
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My XP 2004
A couple of weeks ago I was at XP 2004. Due to my goldfish-like memory I've already started forgetting what happened, but here's some things I do remember:
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Bluffers Guide To Doing Wimbledon
Yesterday I made my first trip to the Wimbledon tennis championships. I had a fantastic time, without spending much money, so here's my suggestions of how to enjoy it. :)
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Confluence - A Wiki on steroids
Those Atlassian boys have done it again. First I became a fan of Jira, and now its looking good for Confluence too.
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A bird turns into a fox (that's what I call evolution)
I've been using Mozilla Firebird as my browser for a while now. Its had (another) rename and is now called Firefox.
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Step-in bindings are lame (but snowboarding's fun!)
After being hassled by some of my mates for the last couple of years, I've finally gone snowboarding for the first time. Not wanting to do things by halves, I'm in Whistler, near Vancouver, for a fortnight. Whistler is (apparently) one of the best snow resorts in the world - I've got nothing to compare it with since I've never been skiing either. The weather's been great and the views are stunning.
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Archive Quality MP3 Ripping
When I started using MP3 music files in 1998, the standard was to use 112 kbps encoding, which produced a notable loss of quality when played on speakers of any quality. One of the great things about the iPod, and the increasing size of hard disks generally, is that these days there's no point being so stingy about the quality of your MP3s.
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Handling Continuous Integration Failures
My blogging activity has been subdued recently. To try and remedy this I've decided to write some entries on build engineering, a subject I've looked at in some depth over the last few years.
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Nested Categories
I finally got around to adding nested category support, so now (for example) you can read all my tech entries, or just the build engineering ones. These things make me happy. :)
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Project Britney Search
Came across this. Very amusing, and by blogging it the guy will get even more Google Juice :).
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Agile build engineering worthy of more research
I've spent the last 5 months on a build engineering engagement. Its been enjoyable, for the following reasons: