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Front Square in the Irish Times
Our new startup, Front Square, was covered in the Irish Times today. The first of many articles, we hope :-)
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Games Development and R&D
This week, I’m joining a group of representatives from the Irish games industry in a meeting with government policy advisors, to help establish whether or not games development...
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Another Boxee Box Fail
Every software update that comes down to my Boxee box seems to be mainly about removing features, not adding them. Their last update hilariously removed volume control from...
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Startup Capital in Ireland
I’ve been both planning and procrastinating this article for months. With Ireland teetering on the brink of default, there’s still plenty of optimism in the tech sector, with...
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"Silicon Liffey"
This shared Google Map has been making its way through the tech entrepreneurial community in Dublin the last few weeks. I initially suspected Paul Hayes was behind it,...
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The secret history of Eurovision
Last night the Eurovision Song Contest made its yearly onslaught on our ears, with Twitter and Facebook providing up-to-date information about the questionable tastes of friends and old...
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Disappearing Desktops
It occurred to me recently how terrible it must be to be Microsoft (a common thought). I realized that the Windows user experience is essentially unchanged since I...
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Boxee Box Fail
A compulsory update to the Boxee box landed last night between two episodes of the excellent The Killing. Thankfully the upgrade went quickly and smoothly, leaving me with...
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Enterprise and Optimism
A few weeks back someone told me to watch George Lee’s business show, in which our intrepid economist ventured to Silicon Valley to find out what the magic...
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Natty Narwhal had my laptop for lunch
Bright-eyed and bushy-tailed this morning, I decided to take Canonical’s advice and upgrade my laptop to Ubuntu 11.04 - Natty Narwhal. Bad decision. It installed easy enough, but...
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Flash Weirdness of the Day II
Hit a brand new FlashWoD today! This took me a while to track down, mainly because I couldn’t actually believe that it could possibly be true. In Actionscript...
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Logging Unhandled Exceptions in Actionscript
When an error occurs in your flash application, and is not handled, the Flash runtime will cross its fingers, ignore it, and try to struggle on. Unfortunately, an...
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Cherokee-admin tunnel script
Cherokee is now my favorite web server, having all the performance of Nginx, but designed for usability. The addition of the market feature has made it possible to...
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Flash Weirdness of the Day (FlashWoD)
I spent some significant time trying to hunt down a bug (or maybe heisenbug), on and off for the last week. Thought I’d nailed it last night, but...
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Multiple asynchronous event handling with Flexunit
I had to write this down somewhere, now I’ve got it figured out. I’ve been banging my head against the screen for the last day and a half...
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Python Memoize with Expiry
Memoizing describes the programming pattern of caching results returned from a function, so that any subsequent calls to the function with the same parameters will return a cached...
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Exciting New Company
Straight back from eastern Europe, I got down to work with Brian McDonnell on our new company, which has a name that is secret for the moment. It’s...
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Collision-Free
Having finally decided to learn to drive, and armed with a learner permit, I’ve begun to take lessons.
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O2 Ireland Overcharging Me for Data Roaming
I been roaming with my iPhone in France and Italy. O2 Ireland’s data roaming charges are preposterous, but I knew that. The EU has already regulated the cost...
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I'm a complainer
Unfortunately, it always seems like no one with the power to improve things gives a shit.
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Network Attached Storage Problems
My last post was all about how happy I was with my new DNS-323 NAS. Well, it's not uncommon for the little problems to only become apparent after...
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Network Attached Storage
I decided that the time had come to figure out a proper solution to the growing amount of media that I want to have accessible on my network....
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Archiving Email
I still have every email I've ever sent or received, since 1996... I want to get them into some common format that I can come back to in...
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