So, many of you have probably heard the rumours that Valve is going to launch some kind of hardware reference platform for the PC based mostly on this interview that Gabe Newell gave to penny-arcade in which he stated: “Well, if we have to sell hardware we will. We have no reason to believe we’re […]
This week in the office we’ve been playing with the Facebook SDK and seeing what it can do, with a mind to using it on an upcoming project (that I can’t talk about!). After a bit of playing, and bouncing ideas off each other we managed to get some fairly exciting stuff working. Since I […]
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There’s an update to this article here. The below article is here as tutorial for writing a helper in Magento, but if you just want to get the visitor IP behind cloudflare you’re better using the ‘proper’ method described here (click the ‘here’, it’s a link despite my stupid CSS not making it obvious!) This […]
One of the big projects coming up in my new role is implementing an Enterprise service bus (ESB) as the backend of our IT operations. I’d never even heard of an ESB before starting here, so this has all been new ground for me which makes it all the more interesting. The first thing I […]
Wow, it’s been quite a while since my last update. I’ve recently started a new job which has rekindled my interest in blogging about some of the interesting and geeky things I get up to. First off, I’ve launched a new site: MipsDroid.com, dedicated to Android on MIPs devices. I’ll be focusing on the Novo7 […]
So, yeah I’ve sort of lost interest in jNag unfortunately. It was a fun little project while it lasted but I’ve not updated it for a couple of months and to be honest I have no real interest in updating it any more. Mostly this is down to a complete lack of time on my […]
Thought I might as well post something here, you never know who reads these things… I am currently on the hunt for a job. Ideally something in PHP / Web development that pays around £30k (or slightly less for the right role) and is based somewhere near Manchester (UK). Working from home would be nice […]
So, the paid and free android clients are now exactly the same, other than the fact that the free version displays adverts. Both fully support SSL (including self signed certs), both have the notification service, both have the widget etc… Going forward I hope to introduce similar functionality on the iPhone client, however my first […]