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Getting Australian POIs from Sensis API 1 Feb 2013 | 09:13 am
The App Over the last X-mas/New Year break, I wrote a simple Web app to search for Australian Points-Of-Interest (POIs), such as toilets, petrol stations, rest areas, picnic grounds, hospitals, etc. ...
Moving large data between Oracle database and CSV 2 Jul 2012 | 07:17 pm
I'm currently working on a project that involves importing and exporting large volumes of data between spreadsheet-friendly comma-separated-value (CSV) files and an Oracle database. Although import/ex...
Mandriva 2011 : the painful way 1 Jul 2012 | 08:30 pm
Last week, I started setting up a new home desktop computer. As all my other home machines were running Mandriva, I decided to install the latest Mandriva 2011 on this new one. Should only take a coup...
My highlights of YOW! 2011 Melbourne 5 Dec 2011 | 09:34 am
I attended the YOW! 2011 Conference in Melbourne on 1-2 December 2011. The talks There were many great talks, and some not-so-great. For me, two talks in particular stood out as special. If I only g...
Personal recollections of the YOW Melbourne Conference 7 Dec 2010 | 12:53 am
I attended the YOW!2010 Australia Software Developer Conference in Melbourne last week, and here is some recollection of my favourite talks. Please note this is all from memory, so I might some parts ...
Tethering HTC Desire to Mandriva Linux 2010.1 27 Oct 2010 | 10:27 am
The other day, I found myself in a situation where I needed to go online but there was no Wifi around. So I plugged my HTC Desire (Android 2.1) smartphone into my laptop running Mandriva Linux 2010.1 ...
Agile Australia 2010: Personal Recollections 16 Sep 2010 | 12:28 am
I attended the Agile Australia 2010 Conference in Crown Conference Centre, Melbourne, on September 15 and 16, 2010. Here are some of my personal recollections, remarks and photos. DAY 1 First impres...
Detect broken links on a Web site using wget 6 Aug 2010 | 06:38 pm
The other day, I started thinking about writing a simple Web site validator that detects broken links on a Web site, similar to W3C Link Checker. After looking at various code samples in Java, Ruby, e...
Loading large reference database in Android 3 Aug 2010 | 06:13 pm
Reference data normally refers to (mostly) read-only data that is used to validate or resolve other pieces of data. For example, a list of postcodes and suburbs, that can be used to provide auto-sugge...
Large User Story vs Human Psychology 27 May 2010 | 10:48 pm
Much have been written about the problems of oversized user stories. They are commonly indicative of too much uncertainty, usually over business requirements, but sometimes over certain technical aspe...
