Archive for September, 2009
The Joy of Podcasts
Since I won an Apple iPod thing in a raffle last year, I’ve discovered the joy of podcasts. It’s not the jump-up-and-down-singing kind of joy you might get if you thought you were out of beer and then found an ice-cold bottle of amber nectar behind a melon at the back of the fridge, but [...]
Getting ready for 2009-10
According to Manchester’s online timetables, my MSc course starts again in the week commencing 28 September. This year, I’m much better organised. There’s no messing about with my University application, I know where the online resources are, I’ve done the journey a dozen times now and I have a much better idea of what I’m [...]
Getting Started with Web Services
You may not know this, but all you need to get started using web services is a web browser. You might have never heard of web services, or assumed it’s too complicated, or maybe you tried it before but had a painful experience – it’s always possible for poor design or implementation to make simple [...]
In: Development, web services
Using Dropbox for Syncing Computers
I tried Dropbox when I was doing my first MSc module. As the course involved writing code and documents, I would work during the day when I was onsite on my laptop, then switch to my desktop to continue working for the week. Naturally, I would forget to copy something to my laptop ready for [...]
In: MSc, Ubuntu · Tagged with: dropbox, sharing, sync