Would you like some Kefir? Like some what?!
Not long ago my father had mentioned this thing called ‘kefir’ with which you could apparently make yoghurt. At the time I didn’t pay mu...
Recent Posts
WeChat Pebble – WeChat notifications on your Pebble!
As the Pebble smartwatch is becoming more and more mainstream, so is the need for supporting a wider range of messaging applications. While much of the Weste...
Now running off a Raspberry Pi!
During my recent trip to the UK I indulged myself in buying a Raspberry Pi. There’s just so many things you can do with one that my initial plan of having it...
Silicon Valley and Mozilla (or The Story of How I started Using Firefox Again)
My blog writing continues being as sporadic as sporadic can be, and it kind of saddens me because writing still is very much a passion for me.
libgdx and Vector2 mutability
Here’s a quick post to rant about something that’s been affecting me for the last couple of days.
Turmeric SOA – Lessons learned
As soon as I picked up on Turmeric SOA as the engine that powers my research, one of my supervisors warned me: be careful, or you’ll be caught in te...
The cross-discipline conundrum (or how we can’t always learn from other disciplines)
I was cycling home one day and this thought popped into my mind: I’m trying to address the issues of multi-tenancy in software systems. In other wor...
Changing the way I use my Mac
I’m a browser person. Pretty much everything I do sits inside the browser: e-mails, RSS feeds, reading the news, facebook, etc… everything happens inside the...
[Quickies] Why can’t I move (certain) applications to the SD card?
Following up on the previous “quickies” format, I decided to answer a question that goes unanswered through a quick Google search. This quickie has to do wit...
[Quickies] Galaxy S2 MIUI 1.12.30 Camera Force Closes
I’ve tagged this post as a “quickie” as I just want to share the solution to a problem I’ve been having with my recently bought Ga...
WSO2 PHP’s WSF Library (or whatever the damn it is called…) and Turmeric SOA
The title of this post is verbose enough about the feelings I have regarding the naming of this library. It’s as if WSO2 took a page from Microsoft&...
Black and white icons for Caffeine
This is gonna be a quick and short post about a tool I use on my Mac called “Caffeine“. This tool essentially allows me, at the click of a but...
On Turmeric SOA, open-source and the Apache Software Foundation
It’s been a while since I posted something on this blog, partly due to my laziness, but also due to a chronic lack of time and patience to come home...
Adobe Starts Including Spyware With Acrobat Reader
We all know the folks at Adobe are some really nice people and that Steve Jobs was just being a bastard by not allowing Flash on the iPhone. But as it tur...
How To Seal a Bag Airtight With a Plastic Bottle
You’re just about to learn a technique known for many centuries by Buddhist priests, passed on from generation to generation, but always kept in sec...
Free Storage With Dropbox (Free Online Backups)
If you need a way to store your files in a manner that they are always accessible everywhere, then Dropbox is for you. In case you haven’t yet heard...
Angry Birds for Android (Now in the Android Market!)
Anyone who owns an iPhone or who has a friend who owns an iPhone will probably know about Angry Birds. Angry Birds is this awesome game where you hurl all...
iPad gets the iOS 4.2 in November (iPhones get iOS 4.1 now)
As per my previous coverage of the Apple event where several new iPods and a new iTunes was announced, I’m making this post so that iPad owners can ...
Apple’s new iPod line-up, iOS 4.2 and iTunes 10
Just a few minutes ago Steve Jobs has finished his keynote speech where he presented us with a few new things. First and foremost we heard about the new v...