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Category Archives: techy solutions
Programmatic page layouts using dojo and existing markup
The layout tutorials for dojo that I’ve seen all seem to fall into two categories: Markup-based: adding dojoType properties to HTML elements in the markup Programmatic: creating HTML elements in JavaScript When using a toolkit such as dojo for layout … Continue reading
Installing Firefox beta nightlies in Ubuntu
There’s a handy PPA for installing Mozilla Firefox nightly builds on Ubuntu but as well as the Firefox 4 builds, it also contains Firefox 3 nightly builds. Thanks to Dom I learned how to reduce the priority of the Mozilla … Continue reading
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Using Jena as a SPARQL endpoint
I’ve been involved in a few projects at work over the last couple of years that have made use of Semantic Web technologies (triple stores, RDF, OWL, SPARQL etc). For most of these I’ve made of ARC, a really great … Continue reading
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Tagged arc, arq, data, endpoint, graph, jena, joseki, mysql, named, optional, owl, rdf, semantic, semantic web, sparql, sparql-update, sparul, specification, store, triple, triple store, web
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Wireless on a Dell Mini 10v in Ubuntu 9.10
I installed the Ubuntu 9.10 Netbook Remix release candidate on my new Dell Mini 10v and the wireless didn’t work out of the box. I think this is because there isn’t an open source driver and Ubuntu doesn’t ship with … Continue reading
Indicator applet API changes in Ubuntu 9.10
The API for the indicator applet has changed in Karmic and a little internal IBM Python application that I’ve written stopped working. Only a couple of minor changes were needed but trying to track down exactly what these were was … Continue reading
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Tagged 9.10, api, applet, attention, changes, draw-attention, indicator, karmic, libindicate, notification, notifications, python, python-indicate, ubuntu
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Building .deb packages for Python applications
Building .deb packages for Python applications Recently I wanted to build a .deb package for an internal IBM application I was writing so that users could easily install it and also so we could distribute them through some internal repositories. … Continue reading
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Tagged build, deb, debian, install, packaging, python, script, ubuntu
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Building a RESTful Web application with PHP
Recently I’ve been putting together a Web application for a research project. I decided it was about time I really looked properly into REST so my Web interfaces are better structured. I won’t go into all the benefits here, you … Continue reading
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Tagged ajax, Apache, client applications, delete, format, get, header, HTTP, javascript, PHP, post, put, request, response, rest, REST Service, rewriting, status, status code, url, Web application, Web interfaces
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Merging and converting OpenOffice and PDF documents
For my BSL level 3 course I have a variety of OpenOffice documents for different forms etc which make up the portfolio. I wanted a way to merge these into a single document but they each had different margins and … Continue reading
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Tagged bsl, convert, document, merge, odt, openoffice, pdf, pdftk, portfolio, script, shell, unoconv
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Going green… slightly
A simple thing but one that made me feel quite virtuous. I’ve written a very very simple script that turns off the screen whenever I lock the computer. Should save some energy every time I go to a meeting or … Continue reading
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