Very impressed by the capabilities of the Writr theme for WordPress. I would like to specify my own colours but I’m not keen on paying $30 to WordPress.com to enable that feature… Continue reading Playing with the Writr theme
In trying to return to blogging I realised that the tools have moved on but my own blogging software had not – it was time to move away from another side project that would not be much missed. The blog portion of XSM (my CMS) did a good job of meeting the standards back in the day so I at least had an RSS feed from … Continue reading Importing a blog to WordPress.com (or Blogger)
It was over 10 years ago that I started coding on Enlightenment, having discovered the window manager at Uni back when E 0.16 was what the cool geeks were using. The project was busy and full of excitement about the new libraries (EFL), the rewrite of the window manager for 0.17 and the many features this would provide. 3 years of fun coding later, many … Continue reading Enlightened 2014
LinuxCon Europe 2013 was in Edinburgh – seriously – it makes sense given our city’s increasing relevance in the global tech scene but a surprise nonetheless. The event brought such celebrities as Linus Torvalds, Chris Aniszczyk, Carsten Haitzler (rasterman) and some of the coding stars who heroically released Enlightenment 0.17 less than a year earlier. It was with excitement that I found there was to … Continue reading Catching up on Enlightenment
So a few weeks ago I decided that I wanted to set up a universal wishlist without Amazon knowing everything that I fancy buying. I was also interested in price tracking and seeing when was a good time to buy something I wanted. As I was clearly lacking in side projects (HeadsUpDev, patios and trains aside…) I decided that it would be interesting to make … Continue reading ShineGet.me – a new universal wishlist with price tracking
Shiny new Apple laptop is … squint? Seriously, the lid is not on straight – at least 1mm out! Continue reading Shiny new Apple…
Celebration time – I just finished our breakfast bar created from LEGO bricks! A total of around 4’500 bricks went into creating this fantastic design which contains characters and scenes created by many of our friends. My personal favourite is the pacman tableau – pixel art is easy to recreated with LEGO 🙂 You can see more details in this image and a companion picture. … Continue reading A few thousand bricks later…
Well it’s railway time and I’m finding that my plans are far more elaborate than ever before so I need a way of planning the layout so I can test various turnouts and track combinations before I have to start cutting track etc. No bother when there is great software out there to help you and XTrkCad is just such a great (and open source) … Continue reading Compiling XTrkCad from source on Mac OSX
Being a member of the OO Live Steam Club was bound to rub off eventually and it seems that it has, manifesting itself in a brand new “Silver Link” A4 Live Steam engine. This really is a magnificent beast and is a fine addition to my collection. I steamed it up for the first time today and was surprised at how well it ran. The … Continue reading A shiny new live steam engine
Hi there guys – so I heard that the latest OSX / MacBook Pro was causing issues for people wanting to dual boot with the latest Ubuntu release so I decided to have a go. OK so I’m not going to pretend it was easy but you should be able to get it running if you just follow this simple set of steps. I have … Continue reading Ubuntu 11.10 and OSX Lion dual boot on MacBook Pro 8,2 even with FileVault2!
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