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Honeymoon - Waikiki Beach, Hawaii
June 16, 2005
Typically spectacular Hawaian scenery

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Get lat, long lof location using google maps

This is really a note to self: 1. Right click map and "center on location". 2. Execute this JS in browser address bar: javascript:void(prompt('',gApplication.getMap().getCenter()));

August 19, 2009 1:52 PM

New features

I've added a few new features to this site: 1. "Lightbox2" - a javascript library that shows images in a flash style gallery. Added to the gallery pages. 2. Images will now be included in the Lucene search with preview thumbnails in the search results. Still needs a bit of tidying up.

June 13, 2009 7:43 PM

Eclipse PDT or Webtools missing perspectives on Linux (Ubuntu)

This post is an aide-m�moire and hopefully helps anyone who has the same issue I had; namely that Eclipse PDT or Eclipse Webtools Project running on Linux (in this case Ubuntu) was not making all installed perspectives available. The symptoms were that Eclipse would start but only in "vanilla" mode: only three basic perspectives showing. If like me you installed the Eclipse binary as root into some directory then that's your problem right there. In order for the other perspectives to become ...

March 9, 2009 8:56 AM

Lucene

I've added a Lucene backed full-text search to the site. You can get to it via the search form on the left hand side of the page. Seems to be working quite well but no doubt it'll need tweaked.

July 9, 2008 7:28 PM

How far have I fallen?

Well, you know you've fallen far from the Java tree when you have to write Transact-SQL like this: set @upfrontFees = substring(@upfrontFees, 1, (char_length(@upfrontFees) - (charindex('>td/<', reverse(@upfrontFees))))+1)

June 30, 2008 9:58 AM

Liskov's Substitution Principle

Daz mentioned this in a conversation today. It's one of those "rules" that you know but you didn't realise it had a name. Quite nice to see it in writing. The Liskov?s Substitution Principle provides a guideline to sub-typing any existing type. Stated formally it reads: If for each object o1 of type S there is an object o2 of type T such that for all programs P defined in terms of T, the behaviour of P is unchanged when o1 is substituted for o2 then S is a subtype of T. In a simpler term,...

June 19, 2008 3:29 PM

XSLT Transform in Firefox and IE

Sometimes its nice to be able to transform an XML document using a stylesheet(XSLT) and sometimes you don't have access to XMLSpy or similar and can't be bothered firing up Eclipse/Java and all the libraries that go with it. :) This snippet of Javascript lets you do it via your web browser:

function transform() { if(document.implementation && document.implementation.createDocument){ // *** Mozilla var xsltProcessor = new XSLTProcess...

April 21, 2008 1:55 PM

Right Tool for the Right Job

The right tool for the right job For the last few years I've been a bit of a Java "fan boy": extolling it's virtues and automatically assuming that it's the correct solution for all but the simplest task; simpler tasks being deferred to Perl or shell scripts. However, I have to say that the latest project I've been working on has altered my thinking somewhat. A simple description of this project would be: A dozen or so web forms which read and write information to a database, validating it on...

March 15, 2007 5:43 PM

New content

I've added a calendar which will allow browsing of previous blog entries. The backend seems to be working fine but I'll need to work on the CSS as it doesn't look right in either IE or Firefox :(

August 21, 2006 10:58 PM

RSS Feeds

For your delight and delectation (and to save my bandwidth!) I've added RSS Feeds to the frontpage of the site, for the blog entries, and to the photo-gallery page. These feeds will be updated everytime a new item is added so you can keep an eye on them for new content - if you actually care. It proved a useful design exercise so the time was well spent.

January 21, 2006 8:30 AM

Photographs

After many long years of wanting but being too lazy to do anything about it I have finally got photo galleries up and running, albeit in a slightly rudimentary fashion. I'm not happy with the quality of the thumbnail produced; they are a bit contrasty and blocky, almost as if they have been over sharpened - still, its better than what I had previously. All I have to do now is get all my pics loaded in, which may take a while. I've taken the decision not to page the thumbnails as personally I pre...

November 18, 2005 8:49 AM

Back in business again

No your eyes are not deceiving you - the site is back up and running. A combination of technical difficulties, ganja and laziness had led to "offline status" for the last five months (was it really that long? Time *does* fly). I would like to say that there will be lots of cool new stuff but I'm afraid that won't be the case, infact I suspect that the site will prove less useful than previously. Why? Well I was getting so many people hitting me for mp3s etc that my paltry ADSL connection was una...

November 13, 2005 4:38 PM

CSS (for dummies?)

I've been working on the latest version of this site, trying to implement almost all of it in CSS (apart from data which readily lends itself to being described in a table). Whilst I like CSS and can see it's obvious advantages it also strikes me as not being the most mature technology in the world. By that I mean it kinda reminds me of the way Javascript is/was implemented in various different browsers: you get different results depending on which browser you use. I am now back to what I consid...

May 31, 2005 1:29 PM

Touch wood but.....

I upgraded the distro on my server to Fedora Core 3 last night and all seemed to go well; so well infact that I think the webcam is now up and running *properly*. It has been up for a few hours now, taking a picture every few seconds and to all intents and purposes is good to go. There are a some warnings getting logged but thus far nothing fatal. We'll see.....

March 3, 2005 10:40 AM

Top of the table form

At long last this site has made it back to the top of the tree in Google. I *had* been sitting pretty at number one but got knocked off, better than kocked up I guess. Anyway, look for "lord0" or "ltierney" and there I am in all my glory. Thanks for this probably goes to Blair at the letter and the all the traffic he's been driving my way with the music I'm hosting for him - what goes around comes around eh?

January 30, 2005 10:24 AM

A feast of work

The titles at the top of download pages i.e. /mp3s/Frank Zappa/ are now tokenised and linked up for easy navigation. Ding dang doo!

July 8, 2004 9:37 PM

New feature

All downloads have their respective sizes listed in either Kb or Mb depending on their size. Enjoy.

July 4, 2004 11:20 AM

Does my generousity know no bounds?

After literally one complaint I've updated the blog section whereby if you post a comment you will be returned from whence you came. Plus as an added "Brucy Bonus" the blog replies are now posted in the correct ascending chronological order AND the original entry is displayed at the top of the page. Bow before my mightiness.

May 11, 2004 11:17 PM

Webcam

I'm cautiously optimistic that the webcam is up and running again. I upgraded my kernel this morning so you never know........

May 1, 2004 12:56 PM

Webcam is go

Got my webcam running on my Linux server - which is cool cos that now means I can run it 24 hours a day. It was surpisingly easy; basically just plug'n'play: this cool article explains how. So at the moment it ain't running as a deamon or scheduled job but that'll be piss easy. First pic can be seen here.

March 26, 2004 9:18 PM

We are go for Samba

After a few days of struggling on and off I've managed to get Samba running. From everybody I'd spoken to and having seen it being set up I assumed it would be quite an easy task. Ha ha...I changed Workgroups, hostnames, netbios, usernames, passwords, restarted boxes, crashes the machine, footered with the firewalls - all to no avail. Then as if by chance I spotted this article whilst trawling through google which ...

March 17, 2004 10:21 PM

New feature

Random image added to fromt page. Click to view fullsize.

March 13, 2004 10:40 PM

To-do

Really need to get the "reading", "listening" done and the search for the blog.......

February 17, 2004 12:08 AM

Bongo

Well as it turns out getting the thumbnails to create is a bit harder than I expected. Some of the classes seem to want to connect to an X11 server - exactly the problem which has thus far prevented me from installing Oracle. And yes I have installed Linux in graphical mode but it went tits up and I can't be bothered trying to fix it. Was at the football on Saturday and Paul's night out in Bar91. I got extremely drunk at the latter and no doubt talked a lot of pish to people - ach well no ch...

February 17, 2004 12:07 AM

Bingo

Got the file upload working so I'm halfway to getting the galleries up and running

February 16, 2004 7:34 PM

Wooh baby

Being the geek that I am this homepage is now XHTML 1.0 Transitional compliant - nice

February 8, 2004 1:12 PM

Security through obscurity

I noticed on Friday that my whole log-in and authentication procedure was broken i.e. it didn't work. It's now fixed however it just goes to show you that if this site had heavier traffic then it probably would have been hacked by now. Maybe I should go a bit easier on Microshaft in the future...

February 8, 2004 12:27 PM

Long time no write

I know, I know. I've not added an entry to this page for ages. The single biggest reason is that my ownership of the domain name ran out so there was all the fannying around associated with that to get it up and running again - oh joy.
Apart from the above I've not really been up to much, decorating the dining room - which is almost finished - and gardening.

July 30, 2002 11:57 AM

Thanks to my loyal viewer

I've had 4 hits this week so again thank you - you're a wonderful audience.

May 1, 2002 9:06 PM

The (Broken) Biological Machin

Okay I'm sure you're wondering why I haven't added any new entries for a while. Well the reasons are multiple and federal (not) as Public Enemy would say.

1. I've had a really bad cold for the last couple of weeks. So bad in fact that I had to take time off work - what a shame.
2. The site was taken off line by the hosts Portland. Reason? Used too much space. Now I knew this and bought some more, space, over a month ago but the cheesenuts decided to pull the plug anyway - a month l...

April 26, 2002 9:16 AM

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This is probably the first entry I've typed when really stoned so you'll need to excuse my spelling.
I had a look at the guestbook which I uploaded at the weekend at it didn't work! Something like DBI.pm not on @INC. Now I know what that meansa but I just wonder how it happened. 10 minutes later it was fine - f**kin free server. The more I think about it the more I think about moving the site. CAn't even put my ladies on it brother.Which reminds me please sign the guest book!!
What else?...

January 8, 2002 11:56 PM

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The guestbook has now been updated to use the MySQL database so at least once again I won't have to rely on text files and nonsense like that. Apart from that I've not done much else today apart from watching Back to the Future III !

January 6, 2002 8:28 PM

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Read through the guestbook script in the book and to be honest it was almost exactly the same as I would have wrote it - which I suppose is a good thing. The only real difference was that Paul Dubois, the author, had added a routine to email you if and when a user submits a thought which is a nice touch but I don't need it at the moment.

January 5, 2002 1:19 PM

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Okay so now the previous diary entries is working too - all it does basically is list those entries which are not displayed on the front page. Well as I start back at work tommorrow :-( and Die-Hard is about to come on I'm gonna go and have a puff. Got a nice bit of Thai x Superskunk - it's good stuff.

January 2, 2002 8:39 PM

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Okay so at last I've got the mySQL account up and running. The dumbass administrators had created it twice - ergo none of them work. But.....it seems to be okay now, so what I've done is automate this diary process so that all I have to is enter the text and the webpage will read it from the database which saves f**kin around with editing HTML files. I will set up the previous entries page in a similar way. The guestbook and survey will also be modified to run from the database rather than flat-...

January 2, 2002 5:38 PM

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I've fannied around with the graphics for the logo and buttons etc. Not sure if I like the buttons though. I've now got this site set up locally on my Apache using MySQL but until the host supplies me with a MySQL account I'm a bit scuppered. I was assured it would be within 24hrs of application but 3 days later still nothing. Got the rellies coming round tommorow for fireworks but I'm not really in the mood for that at the moment - still I suppose I will be/better be by tommorow. Celtic's bol...

January 2, 2002 5:29 PM

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Once again the survey was fucked up, so I've got it working and moved in onto the front page so that maybe, just maybe more people will use it. What else has been happening? Well my hours at work are getting worse and worse. I'm working at least one day every weekend - it sucks. What use is a Monday off to me? So I've been looking for a new job but to be honest they seem to be few and far between. I've got rid of the Xitami web server and installed Apache instead - much more professional I f...

January 2, 2002 5:28 PM

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Added six more movies to the mpeg section. Tidied up the directory structure behind the scenes. If I run out of space on this dodgy machine I'm on it's no worrys. My work i.e. me, runs a dual processor 2 x 800mhz, 2 x 40Gb HD server - woo hoo - with a 64K guaranteed bandwidth. No problemo!!

January 2, 2002 5:28 PM

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Changes the text buttons for simple gif files. Moved the javascript into external files.

January 2, 2002 5:28 PM

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Haven't workd on this site much recently. A combination of laziness and being tired out. Curiously enough for a site named tokeitup I haven't actually been puffing much recently - mind you that's be kind of enforced upon me - supply and demand and all that. More like lack of supply! Other points of note - Celtic cuffed Ajax in Amsterdam - woo hoo! ANd I'm pissed off with my job.

January 2, 2002 5:27 PM

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Ha ha! Got the guestbook and the survey running again. Woo hoo!

January 2, 2002 5:27 PM

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The guestbook and the survey are both now fugazi. I don't think that I'll have time to get them up and running tonight. I'll give it a shot though.

January 2, 2002 5:27 PM

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The survey's out of commission at the moment. I've started to add a guest book which is kind of working. You may laugh but I'm actually writing these programs from scratch - bit of a learning exercise. I only just got my Xitami web server running, though I suspect it's actually been fine for a while. I'm scripting using Perl/CGI which I think are actually a bit past it now but I like them and they work. Having the web server running should be a real boon.

January 2, 2002 5:26 PM

Moving on up

I have now added a download section. This does and will contain any non-music files which I download i.e. drivers, crackz, modules etc etc. Feel free to help yourself

January 15, 2004 9:36 AM

Later that same day

Back from Jasons got a list of stuff to do should be easy though. Oh the mySQL wasn't shit - I was. I'd spawned loadsa zombies which almost "ate its brains" - cool.

January 14, 2004 9:41 PM

Be patient grasshopper

I'm sitting in work waiting for a mySQL database to insert a couple of thousand records - so far it has *only* taken an hour or so. I guess it'll give me a nice wee easy run-in til home time. I've gotta meet Jason tonight to discuss the changes he wants done to his website. I was trying to get hold of his phone number so that we could just go to an internet cafe and discuss it but I cannae get hold of David (who has is contact details) on either his home or his mobile number.

January 14, 2004 3:46 PM

Magic beans?

Just waiting for the latest version of Netbeans to download. I've never used it but Ian assures that it's pretty good - from the sound of his description it is. I like UltraEdit but it's really just a glorified text editor albeit a pretty cool one so time to try a "proper" IDE. Fek only at 86%

January 12, 2004 10:17 PM

New idea

Add a download section i.e. any files which I downloaded keep to share with the world and also so that I've got them again if I need them.

January 8, 2004 9:19 AM

My work is never done

Started to work on a file upload system. Specifically one which will allow me to create photo galleries with a view to eventually being able to insert them into these blog entries. Other news: 1. Donated blood - though they threatened to "sin die" me if I fainted 2. Paul got a warning in work for taking a 16min lunch break - nice 3. Got a phone call from Jason to do some work on his website. Meet him next Wednesday. 4. Ross County in the Scottish Cup on Saturday

January 7, 2004 11:23 PM

Pah, a bug

Pah, I've just noticed this blog isn't preserving line breaks. Suffering suketash

December 27, 2003 12:36 AM

Houston, we are go for launch!!

After many trials and tribulations this blog is now up and running (I think). Its been tested for quoting errors, pipes etc so I think we're in good shape. My brother got his Counter-Strike going so we've been having a few games - he's a bit of a noob though. Tommorow it's a choice between Celtic and AB-CD: thanks to my fuckin work I can't afford to do both.

December 27, 2003 12:35 AM