It has been ages since I last posted, and for that I am sorry, but I have kept up with my twitter and identica accounts. Things have been moving really fast for me of late and as a result my blogging has slipped. So whats new in the world of earobinson? I am now working [...]
Form Forum?
Dictionary.com defines a form as: a document with blank spaces to be filled in with particulars before it is executed: a tax form. — source and a forum as: an assembly, meeting place, television program, etc., for the discussion of questions of public interest. — source Ok well I cherry picked the definitions that best [...]
Trac: enhanced wiki and issue tracking system
I love writing about projects that I really like. When I do I try not to write about projects that people may know about and I definitely do not write about projects that come pre installed with Ubuntu. I love open office but it comes pre installed Ubuntu. Trac however does not come pre installed [...]
DeadlineExceededError on Google App Engine
A while back I wrote a post about using Google docs as an expense tracker. The post received a lot of great feedback and so when I wanted to learn about Google App Engine I decided the best way was to create a Google app that connects to my Google docs to let the user [...]
Mapping Wikipedia
I was reading reddit the other day and stumbled upon the fact that wikipedia has an API. Neat I thought, and having some free time since my exams are now over I figured I would play around a bit with it. When I browse wikipedia I often click from link to link, and have come [...]
cmake
I’m currently working on a cross platform project. The code is C++ and I’m going to be doing most of my development on the linux side but I need all of my compile scripts to be able to work on windows. After doing some googling and talking to people cmake seems to be what I’m [...]
Map of The Internet
The other day I stumbled upon Chris Harrison’s internet map, the only problem I found with his map is that I wanted to know exactly which country each network connection was in. So using the DIMES public data repository, and 1site1moment’s country boarders I have mapped the internet for myself. From Public Feel free to [...]
Propensity v0.1.2.1906 — Now With an Icon! (shameless repost)
Due to an issue with wordpress I have been forced to repost this. It has been about a week since I released Propensity into the wild for your feedback, I have gotten a fair bit of feedback and received a lot of help. You will also notice that I jumped from version 0.1.0.1772 to 0.1.2.1906 [...]
Propensity v0.1.2.1906 — Now With an Icon!
It has been about a week since I released Propensity into the wild for your feedback, I have gotten a fair bit of feedback and received a lot of help. You will also notice that I jumped from version 0.1.0.1772 to 0.1.2.1906 well version 0.1.1.xxxx was released as a limited demo but I have pushed [...]
Posting Source Code to WordPress.com
The other day I tried to blog about the vte.terminal, and I had huge problems posting the source code. My problem was that despite how much I searched, and everything I tried, I could not keep the formatting and post the source code. The formatting was wrong when I used the <code> tags (The spaces [...]