Nice process, but what about the engineering bits? Wish I had this article in my QUB Software Engineering module Pattern matching with Bash (not grep) Brilliant article on Bash’s built in pattern matching. The next generation of ad serving for online publishers RFID tracking system Researchers Say Women Secretly Desire Hairy Geeks As my partner Beth says; “I’m ahead of the curve”

A Screw-In Coffin is Clever and Economical [Patents] Leaked Government report dismisses QUB’s calls for increasing student fees Wow, they were actually pushing this?! Finally something good ’the government’ has done. Treat Your Presentation like a Performance to Nail Timing and Delivery [Presentations] Installing Kernel Security Updates Without Reboot With Ksplice Uptrack On Ubuntu 9.10 Desktop

Super Happy Dev Castle – SHDC #0 This was a brilliant event, I just wish I had planned ahead to have a project to work on ! Install Multiple Linux Distributions Via PXE (The Easy Way) This is YAPIWD, yet another project i want to (or wont) do… Google Wave in Action: Real-World Use Case Studies [Use Cases] I never got into google wave that much but i think i may have to revisit it after reading this article! ...

I am shamed. I’ve let this blog slip in the midst of coming back to the real world of Uni. A week without something useful going up! Terrible… stands in corner Fact is I’ve been experimenting with so many different things that nothing cogent has come out of it yet. Some of the things I’ve been working on: Virtual Lab- Walk through of the setup and playing with of a virtual computer lab using VirtualBox including Windows, Ubuntu, FreeBSD, Fedora, and Debian servers/clients ...

10 ways to make Internet Explorer act like a modern browser Until IE comes into the fold, I guess these methods for Open Web Standard shiving will have to do. Getting Freelance Work: The Hacker Technique Definatly going to be doing this, even just to keep my Design chops up to scratch Puzzle Websites to Sharpen Your Programming Skills Great Collection of Sites that inevitably suck all the time out of my week! ...

10 ways to make Internet Explorer act like a modern browser Until IE comes into the fold, I guess these methods for Open Web Standard shiving will have to do. Getting Freelance Work: The Hacker Technique Definatly going to be doing this, even just to keep my Design chops up to scratch Puzzle Websites to Sharpen Your Programming Skills Great Collection of Sites that inevitably suck all the time out of my week! ...

How To Set Up A Terminal Server In Linux Using Ubuntu 9.10 And FreeNX Defiantly going to be experimenting with this! 10 Free Joomla Extensions You Can’t Live Without Joomla, one of my two favourite CMS’s up there with Drupal, just makes it so easy to take off the shelf extensions like these listed and for the lay-man to roll it all together into a truely unique system. Will defiantly be noting this for later clients! ...

‘Social Media’ has been lauded as the be-all and end all of the future of marketing, advertising, society, and general human decency. There is no doubt that Social Media has taken over our connected lives. And while I don’t doubt this, I often feel that this is taken as a sign that we can abandon the so called ‘old-school’ of marketing and advertising (In this case ‘Old-School’ includes the Web 1.0 practise of advertising on Search and Comparison sites). ...

Take one Dual-Boot laptop, with three partitions: /dev/sda1:Windows File System /dev/sda2:Linux File System /dev/sda3:Data Partition I already had Dropbox installed on the Windows side and didn’t want to have things duplicated on the linux side, problem is Ubuntu currently does not mount internal drives automatically on boot, so every time I fired up Ubuntu, I had to re-mount the drive, password and all. Easy enough fix: Make a new /etc/fstab entry for the shared drive and define a mount point. ...

Freelance Freedom #139 This seems to be a central tenant of all creative processes, from programming, to graphic design, to web design, to finger painting. Theres a hell of alot of apparent ’nothing’ to do before you do anything, and if you play your cards right, its chargeable nothing time :D Programming With Proportional Fonts? An interesting new look at a programming environment mainstay that I admit I just assumed was a best practice! ...