XBMC on the Giada N20
We finally updated our old CRT TV to a shiny new 1080p LCD/LED TV. Unfortunately this meant the end-of-life of my trusty hacked v1 XBox, which served as our HTPC via XBMC. The XBox won’t do 1080p...
View ArticleHaltcondition: Now in IPv6 (where available)
Well, as of Friday the 4th of February 2011 IANA is officially out of IPv4 addresses. It’s now up to the regional registries to dole out the remaining addresses as they see fit, which will be...
View ArticleIPv6 is stalking you (and what you can do about it)
Imagine a not-too-distant future where IPv6 is starting to see widespread adoption. On sunday evening you login to Amazon.com on your laptop and purchase some sex-toys for you and your wife for your...
View ArticleHaltcondition: Now in SPDY (where available)
SPDY is the next big thing in web technology. Nominally it is intended to speed up websites by multiplexing multiple site requests over a single connection; however there is some question about how...
View ArticleMy talks from Devopsdays London
This November I represented Atlassian at Devopsdays London, giving two ignite talks. The ignite format is a 5-minute talk, with 20 slides and a fixed 15-seconds per slide cadence. It’s not a format I’m...
View ArticleSome more talks
While uploading the slides from my Devopsdays talks, I thought I’d upload some other talks I’ve given. The main ones of historical interest are the talk to accompany my paper on AccessGrid over XMPP...
View ArticleNew Clojure library: ‘geolocation’
I’ve written a small Clojure library for geolocation routines for a side project I’m working on. The routines in it so far are based on the algorithms described by Jan Philip Matuschek, but converted...
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SGI Screen font for OS X
I use the terminal a lot, even under OS X[1], and use bitmap fonts there. Until recently I had been using the Proggy family of fonts, as they were the best bitmap fonts available for the Mac. However I...
View ArticleAtlassian User Group London slides
In February I had the pleasure of speaking with the London Atlassian user group about some of our experiences with continuous delivery and deployment at Atlassian. The slides for this are available...
View ArticleRealtime updates from Postgres to Elasticsearch
Recently I’ve been evaluating elasticsearch, and more specifically how to get data into elasticsearch indices from source-of-truth databases. elasticsearch is sometimes lumped in with the general NoSQL...
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