Tag Archives: Tech

Release Day

I can finally share what I’ve been working on since I joined SpringSource. I won’t try to explain it in detail, because half of you will glaze over immediately, but basically it’s an application platform that allows convenient deployment of OSGi Java apps using Spring software. See, I told you. For those of you who’ve [...]

1 Wikipedia, 2 Wikipedias…

I’ve seen this linked a few times, and finally got time to read it. What an awesome article – there’s nothing in there that I couldn’t have thought up, but I didn’t and this guy did: I was having dinner with a group of friends about a month ago, and one of them was talking [...]

Google Calendar

This might be well-known, but it was new to me when I stumbled on it. If you click on a date in the calendar on the left of the page and drag to the left or right the main display adjusts to show the number of days you’ve highlighted. Similarly moving up or down shows [...]

Evernote

I’ve been using a newish (at least for the latest beta) note taking and crap collecting app called Evernote recently. Among its cool features are a decent Mac client (or a Windows one if you must), syncing to an online client, OCR for pictures you insert, various mobile clients, and publishing of any items you [...]

iPlayer

I’m in a state of mild shock after having a smooth experience with DRM-enabled video (at least I assume it’s DRM ‘protected’). We realized we’d missed an episode of a new show, so fired up Safari (a new version at that), loaded iPlayer, and started watching. And here’s the thing. It worked. No messages about [...]