I eventually got round to ordering a Raspberry Pi Model B (512MB RAM). As you probably know this is a £25 ($35) computer running a 700MHz ARM processor and capable of decoding displaying HiDef 1080...

If you are anything like me you’ll find yourself using a number of different PCs through a typical week. I have my work laptop, my work Dev machine, my home PC, my netbook and some semi permanent v...

Today, I was restoring a backup of a WordPress site I have. Copied all the files into a folder, squirted all the data back into MySQL and set up a separate website in IIS. All was fine, I could bro...

Okay, so I like the new Gmail design – cleaner and more whitespace – just looks much more modern that the existing one. Though, I’m still not keen on having to go across to the little ‘back arrow’...

An application I was working on recently needed the ability for the user to drag a TreeView node onto a DataGridView, and when ‘dropped’ create a new row in the DataGridView. It is not difficult...

This is a bit of a mixed post, Eclipse / Android development versus Visual Studio / Windows development, and a bit of self promotion of my ‘Hundred Pushups’ app. I have been a fan of the Hundred P...

For the past year (2010) I had been using SportyPal – an application for tracking exercise (runs mainly for me). It has mobile apps (iPhone, Android, WinMob etc.) that do the actual tracking and th...

A while back I was working on a ‘post to Twitter’ function that used the original Basic Authentication that the Twitter V1.0 API allowed. Unfortunately, at the end of Aug 2010 they discontinued su...

This evening, I was trying to get my Home Energy Monitor application working to Google PowerMeter To get things moving quickly I decided to prototype in PowerShell (as you get the full sugary go...

This post is an update to my previous one about the CurrentCost Energy Monitor and the software I built for it. After posting brief details about it, I agreed with the guys over at the MSDN Coding...