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28Aug
2009 Intermittent – a dirty word in telecomms – part 1When you are a techy of any kind you often troubleshoot problems. Sometimes they are easy to solve, sometimes they are not. Of course before you fix anything you usually want to reproduce it. Again, sometimes it’s easy, other times it’s not. I am sure all programmers have come across a case where the sequence [...]
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27Aug
2009 Top 5 sustainability technologies we needBeen doing a bit of thinking about what technologies we really need today. Here is my top 5: < ol> Plastic recycling. Most of the waste plastic these days cannot be recycled as high temperatures are required to disinfect it. At high temperatures it breaks down and becomes unusable. With effective recycling we could also [...]
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11Aug
2009 Why is AutoGK producing bad quality files?I had this problem when trying to encode a TV Series disc. The file kept coming out looking real crap. I had a Homer Simpson moment after about five goes – what I thought was an episode actually was actually all episodes from the disc. So, simple answer – look at the duration of the [...]
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01Aug
2009 Test Driven DevelopmentI heard a lot of buzz about test driven development. All that time I thought that all that means is writing unit tests. Then I found out about writing tests before writing code. Meh, I thought, no big deal, a bit fussy if you ask me, it still hasn’t changed my view on the whole [...]
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