Archive for the 'Technology' Category

Projects, Programming Languages and Procrastination…

Posted 16th February 2011 in Imperial, Technology   2 Comments

(ooo… alliteration….) I’m writing this blog post when I really should be doing something useful like working on my final year individual project, but hey, sometimes you just want a break and I’ve played enough Freecell recently… So, what is my project? I’m writing a program to extract metadata (play counts, track durations etc.) from [...]

It’s been a long time…

Posted 21st June 2010 in Imperial, Random Musings, Technology   0 Comments

…but I’ve finally got round to posting again… Since my last post, I’ve been rather busy, with the Spring term and all the work that went with it, and for the past 11 weeks I’ve been on placement (nearly half way ) So.. the Spring term… the group project was completed and the presentation went [...]

My move to Windows 7

Posted 11th September 2009 in Technology   3 Comments

With the release of Windows 7, and the fact that I can get it free from MSDNAA, I decided to leave Vista behind and upgrade. I also decided to move to the 64 bit version. The only problem I’ve had so far seems to be a rather strange configuration issue in Apache, but I’ve managed [...]

Updates…

Posted 28th August 2008 in Imperial, Random Musings, Technology   1 Comment

I haven’t updated my blog for a while, so I thought I’d just write a quick post… Firstly, I updated my gallery a few weeks ago, with all of my pictures and videos being found in the same place. I uploaded a lot of new photos and some additional videos whilst I was at it. [...]

New Microsoft Betas

Posted 7th March 2008 in Technology   0 Comments

On Wednesday, Microsoft released a whole horde of beta software. Firstly there is the first beta of Internet Explorer 8, which has better standards support as well as new features such as Activities and Web Slices. They also released beta 1 of Silverlight 2. This brings .NET support to Silverlight, so it can be programmed [...]