Every so often I find a device which – inexplicably – doesn’t include Linux support. I’ve been very impressed with how well Ubuntu runs on the Lenovo ThinkPad X200. Everything worked out of the box – with the exception of the fingerprint reader (AuthenTec AES2810). Now, I know that fingerprint readers can easily be defeated [...]
I was honoured when David Wood asked me to present at his first “brown bag” lunch lecture at Accenture. Normally I would run through a presentation of this length at several different venues and thoroughly hone it before presenting at a high profile event. As you’ll see from the slides and video, it’s still a [...]
Feb 262010
As I mentioned in my last post about VoteUK, I found the TheyWorkForYou API to be a little lacking when it came to image sizing. I posted a request asking if there was a pattern to the image sizes and, if not, was it possible to have the sizes returned in the API. The “standard” [...]
Dec 062009
There are many reasons to love Open Source Software. It’s free (as in you pay nothing), it’s free (as in speech) and – perhaps my favourite reasons – it’s free (as in liberating). By liberating, I mean that one isn’t tied down to the product roadmap and release schedule of the developers. If I find [...]
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