Squeezebar on Sourceforge

Posted by on 19 August 2010 | 0 Comments

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A while back I blogged about a Squeezebox taskbar widget I created to control my Squeezebox from my desktop without needing the web interface open. I've noticed a reasonable proportion of traffic to my site which has hit that page, so I've put the code onto SourceForge to make it more widely available.

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New Van

Posted by on 9 August 2010 | 0 Comments

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I picked up a Transit off Ebay, and have been VERY chuffed with the deal.  Just MOTd, it's had a recent respray, new timing belt, new water pump belt and new tyres.

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Gartner press for Rights and Responsibilities for Cloud Computing Services

Posted by Andrew on 12 July 2010 | 0 Comments

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In a press release today, Gartner pressed for a number of rights and responsibilities surrounding the provision and use of cloud computing services.

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Uk MySQL usergroup

Posted by Andrew on 8 July 2010 | 2 Comments

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From discussions both at and after the recent MySQL meeting, it seems the way forward for this group, and the UK MySQL community as a whole is to move away from Facebook, develop it's own presence and community, and to fall under the wing of the UK OUG to take advantage of the "official" status it gives us.  This also gives us the opportunity for funding and organising events as well as providing venues.

As part of that I'm looking at setting up a dedicated web-presence for the UK MySQL community, as I believe many of the members we lost when we moved off Meetup was due to them not using, or generally not liking Facebook. If you have any suggestions for a platform to use for a community like this, I'm keen to hear it.

There's also likely to be a MySQL stream at the UK OUG conference in Birmingham in November. If anyone has any information, wants information, or would like to be involved, please drop me a line.

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A taskbar widget to control Squeezebox

Posted by Andrew on 11 June 2010 | 0 Comments

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I can't find any simple apps for controlling my Squeezebox Boom.  There used to be a Firefox plugin, but it seems development of that has stalled and it won't work with the versin of firefox I'm running.  There is the web-interface to the squeezebox server, and while that does everything, it still needs you to find the relevant tab/window to be able to control the player.

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Motorcycle tests to be reviewed

Posted by Andrew on 8 June 2010 | 0 Comments

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Today's announcement that the motorcycle test is to be reviewed has been strongly welcomed by the MCIA.

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MySQL: Automate your Merge Engines

Posted by Andrew on 16 February 2010 | 0 Comments

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A while ago, I'd written a bash script to handle the automated control of a table using the MERGE engine.

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A cheeky MySQL replication log flusher

Posted by Andrew on 1 February 2010 | 0 Comments

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Rather than relying on the expire_log_days feature to ensure your replicating master doesn't fill up with obsolete binary logfiles, you can deploy this little SQL script.  It's a bit cheeky and dirty, but it works.

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The End of "Free" Britain?

Posted by Andrew on 14 January 2010 | 0 Comments

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This week saw, what should be, a triumph of human rights over ill-applied and overzealous policing of stop-and-search under Section 44 of the anti terrorism act. The full ruling can be read at the European Court of Human Rights website.

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