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Life in the baby lane
So life since Phoebe was born has been lovely. She’s 10 months old now and is very cute, giggly and getting more aware of things around her every day. Loads of fun! I always hated it when people said having a baby changes you, since I refused to be changed. But It kind of does,…
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FreeTDS MSSQL Ubuntu Text Size Limited to 32256 Characters
MSSQL + FreeTDS on Ubuntu + a REALLY big text field, make sure you set ‘text size’ up to 4294967295 on freetds.conf By default, it was limited to 32256 characters! Took quite a while to debug
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Running Lightroom 4.4 in Ubuntu Linux 14.04 with VirtualBox – also opening a catalogue from network drive
I have well and truly moved over to Ubuntu, having spent the last year using it as my development environment for work and at home. However, there are few trailing dependencies on Windows, the most annoying, is the lack of Linux support for my trusted Lightroom. There are a few alternatives for Ubunu such as…
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Angular JS – IndexedDB DataCloneError when storing $resource
In an AngularJS Google Chrome App that I’m writing, I keep getting a frustrating error when attempting to store data from a remote resource. After searching around, I realised it was because there were references to cyclic objects (the angular $promise objects within the $resource object), so using a slight adaption to code I found…
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Making hard decisions
I really enjoy working at Geneity. I have come to really like the people I work with and I get to work on some interesting challenges and use modern, open source tools for every aspect of my work. However, an opportunity came up at the Freight Transport Association, and after success at the phone and…
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Show git changes in the last N days
So you want to see all of the changes since some time in the past. commit=$(git log –pretty=oneline –reverse –since={yesterday} | awk ‘{print $1}’); meldcomm=$(echo $commit | cut -d ‘ ‘ -f1); git meld $meldcomm^
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Graduation
Last week saw the end to a process that started for me way back in 2003, when I got wind of an opportunity at the humble Centre for Internet Computing at the Scarborough Campus of the University of Hull. I have just graduated as a Doctor of Philosophy at University College Dublin, Dublin from the…
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Collapsing universe brings back memories
This morning I was listening to BBC Radio 6 Music, wherein the host was talking about his regular guest, Prof. Brian Cox. The monologue surrounded the idea that entropy would finally slow down. Stop. Then reverse “like elasticated trousers”. The concept was that history would unwind itself and we would re-live our lives in reverse.…
