I’ve installed the Buddypress add-on and theme compatibility on this blog. For an explanation of what that is and why I’ve done it, click here.
If, like me, you have a travelcard and pay as you go on the same Oyster card, you maye recently have started to notice odd amounts being deducted from your card’s pay as you go balance. This is because those clever Oyster card people, who have been paid millions of pounds to implement pay as [...]
I’ve been using Python with Magento for small administrative tasks for a couple of months now, and I’ve created a library of useful / example functions that I’d be happy to share and extend. These are now hosted at Google Code, at this URL: http://code.google.com/p/python-magento/ Feel free to comment, extend, ask for extra functions and [...]
Thursday, February 25, 2010
I’m attending this lecture tonight. If there’s anything exciting to discuss, I’ll write about it again. In the meantime, the organisers gave me this rather interesting tag to include in my blog: [Preview] IET/BCS Turing Lecture 2010 Professor Christopher Bishop, Chief Research Scientist, Microsoft Research Cambridge Computers Video interview 2010-02-16 00:00:00.01 IT Channel >> go [...]
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Monday, February 22, 2010
I often have to demonstrate Magento Enterprise to clients and potential clients when I go to visit them, and sometimes that’s difficult, because I can’t connect my laptop to the Internet very easily from their offices. It’d be easier from Starbucks, where I get free wi-fi, and generally the coffee’s better, but some clients don’t [...]
Thursday, November 19, 2009
The tube tunnels are full of posters showing people who apparently helped design Windows 7. Which is probably why stories like this one appear from time to time. If you let members of the public design your operating system, it probably would be better than Windows, where even the version number is a hack. There [...]
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Saturday, November 14, 2009
This movie shows a demonstration of what TV on the Internet could look like in the near future. While watching a live program, the viewer can switch to classic archive footage, follow Twitter conversation about the program they’re watching, interact with a sponsor (not on the BBC, of course) and there is a platform for [...]
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2 billion applications have been downloaded for the iPhone and iPod Touch, and the iPhone has achieved about 1% of the global market for mobile phones. These are great achievements, and it’s easy to see why the iPhone has become so popular. Compared to its predecessors it’s revolutionary, a clear advance, and it’s transforming the [...]
