20
Jan

Moving from Wordpress to Drupal 7

Submitted by dave on Fri, 20/01/2012 - 08:28

When I initially started this site it was a simple blog implemented using the Joomla! Content Management System. This was soon replaced by Wordpress which has been the underlying platform for about two years - until now.

13
Dec

Using Google Maps in your Android Applications – Part 3 [Adding Place Markers]

Submitted by dave on Tue, 13/12/2011 - 21:18

If you have been following along with Part 1 and Part 2 of this mini-series you should now have a basic Android application which displays your current location on a map. Not amazing functionality I'll admit but the basis for many location based applications in the Android Market. What will make the application truly useful is the ability to add markers at specific locations, e.g. points of interest, cash machines, checkpoints etc.

24
Oct

Using Google Maps in your Android Applications - Part 2 [Showing Current Location]

Submitted by dave on Mon, 24/10/2011 - 20:45

In my last post I showed you how to create a basic Android application which would display a map and zoom in to a specific location, my home town. While the functionality was not what you could call awe-inspiring it does lay the foundations for most mapping applications and serves as a good starting point. You can download the code from Part 1 but you will need to insert your own Google Maps API key for it to display the maps.

29
Sep

Using Google Maps in your Android Applications - Part 1

Submitted by dave on Thu, 29/09/2011 - 21:21

I'm currently working on an Android application which displays points of interest on a map and allows the user to see additional details by tapping on the associated marker. This sounds like a straight forward requirement for an Android application and so you would have thought that there would be a wealth of resources on the web to guide a developer on his way - but that's not been my experience.

15
Aug

Recovering deleted files on Fedora 15 using the photorec utility

Submitted by dave on Mon, 15/08/2011 - 20:19

So here is the scenario; I'd taken some photos of a special occasion and wanted to copy them to my usb key so that my girlfriend could take them to be printed. Simple stuff huh.? Well normally yes, but when I gave my girlfriend the usb key last time instead of finding just the handful of photos on there that she expected there were dozens of them displayed when she plugged it into the kiosk.

27
Jun

Backing up and Restoring to Dropbox on Ubuntu Server 10.04 LTS

Submitted by dave on Mon, 27/06/2011 - 14:56

In my previous couple of posts I've been configuring Dropbox on my Virtual Private server running a headless installation of Ubuntu 10.04. The main reason for this was to enable me to use it for storing backups without having to rely in the Dropbox Web API which has proven to be somewhat flaky - or at least that's my experience. With the Dropbox daemon now installed, configured and running all I need now is a script to perform the actual backups and save in the appropriate location.

18
Jun

Configuring Dropbox on an Ubuntu Server – Pt 2

Submitted by dave on Sat, 18/06/2011 - 21:31

In Part 1 I clarified a few points on the Dropbox tutorial for getting the server running on a headless Linux server and while I had it running it was 'locked' to an ssh session, i.e. close the session and the Dropbox server also stopped. The same tutorial provides links to sample init.d files which can be used to start the Dropbox server on boot. This works well enough but there were a couple of things that, again, could have done with a bit more detail.

11
Jun

Configuring Dropbox on an Ubuntu Server - Pt 1

Submitted by dave on Sat, 11/06/2011 - 17:00

If you've been reading any of my recent posts you will know that I have been moving from a shared server host to a virtual private server and that I have also experienced issues with my backups. Well with the blog configured and running well the migration was almost complete, but what about backing up my data?

10
Jun

Configuring vsftp on Ubuntu Server 10.04 LTS

Submitted by dave on Fri, 10/06/2011 - 08:00

So my move from shared hosting to virtual private server (VPS) was going well so far - I'd moved this blog across and  wired up Exim4 to handling all my emailing needs.

9
Jun

Migrating Blog to Virtual Private Server with Exim4 email support

Submitted by dave on Thu, 09/06/2011 - 08:00

In my previous post I explained that I was migrating this blog from a shared server provided by 5quidhosting onto a virtual private server (VPS) provided by BHost. In theory this should have been quite straightforward but in practice, and bearing in mind I'm a developer and not an infrastructure boffin, there was a lot more to is that just moving zip files around and running a few commands.

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