Finding Ada 2010: Kate Lundy
A slightly belated post for Ada Lovelace Day, highlighting Senator Kate Lundy, Open Government and IT advocate.
About Category "Technical"
All posts of a remotely technical nature should be associated with this category.
Technology: Business Asset or Business Risk?
Do you consider technology an asset to your business? Are there technologies that you cannot work without? If so, your assets may be exposing you to risk. This article gives a simple guide on how to identify and minimise those risks to help protect your business and that of your clients who rely on it.
Audience:
Small business owners;
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Tuesday, 15th December 2009Extensible Metadata for Your CMS
How many Open Source Content Management Systems (CMS) have an extensible system that can allow the creation, maintenance and display of metadata such as Dublin Core? Very few, if any. Now over 2 years in the making, this article explains concepts that may be used to extend CMS to accommodate this.
Audience:
CMS developers; CMS users; metadata enthusiasts.
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Monday, 7th December 2009Base Conversions in MySQL
Want to convert between number bases in MySQL? Here are a couple of stored procedures to let you convert to/from any base you fancy.
Audience:
MySQL users; people who think that the 16 digits of hexadecimal just aren't enough;
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Friday, 18th September 2009Vodafone Australia Mobile Broadband - On Linux
What it takes to get a Vodafone Australia prepaid mobile broadband connection working on Linux.
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Thursday, 10th September 2009
In and Out of SVG
Whilst SVG is a great graphics format to work with, sometimes there is a need to import other formats into it or to export it to the likes of PDF. This article details a real-life application and techniques I used to import to and export from SVG.
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Tuesday, 4th August 2009Dear Oracle...
Oracle to buy Sun Microsystems. Smiffy wants stuff.
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Tuesday, 21st April 2009Smiffy's Random Tech Tips
The first in a series of irregular and infrequent collections of tips relating to (X)HTML, Perl, MySQL, Un*x and other technologies.
Audience:
Geeks.
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Wednesday, 15th April 2009follow-u-tron
Smiffy's answer for Twitter #followfriday nominations.
Audience:
Twitterers who like Perl.
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Saturday, 14th March 2009;last updated on Thursday, 26th March 2009
@smiffytech - The Twitter and I
Smiffy has joined the Twitter crowd. Twitter is a powerful social networking tool, not the silly gimmick that first impressions might make it.
Audience:
networkers;
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Thursday, 26th February 2009;last updated on Saturday, 15th August 2009
