(mis)adventures in software development...
An overview of the changes and new features in version 2 of the VoidyBootstrap Pelican theme.
VoidyBootstrap has undergone some refinement under the hood, with many new customisation features added.
Smooth page scrolling using jQuery, and a floating scroll to top button.
An example of implementing smooth page scrolling using jQuery, and a floating scroll-to-top button.
Has your Nexus 7 become a horribly slow and sluggish mess after the Android 5 Lollipop update? Here's something that might help.
How to fix an Android Nexus 7 that’s become slow and sluggish after an update to Lollipop.
Tortured metaphors, metadata and mass surveillance.
Metadata used to be such an innocuous, mundane, technical term.
Until Big Government got hold of it.
And appropriated it for its own Orwellian purposes.
In technical circles, metadata is an abstract term. It means nothing in itself. What the word “metadata” refers to is entirely dependent on context.
If you’re talking about databases, metadata might information about the structure of the database — how the data is stored.
But you’re talking about photo files, it might be things …
They say the definition of madness is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. So what, then, are we to make of the Australian Government’s fervour for data retention? Is it not the government taking something other countries have done and found to be ineffective, doing it anyway, yet expecting different results?
Mandatory data retention is in the news again in Australia, as an incredibly unpopular and incompetent Prime Minister scrambles back to his …
There’s a whole world of apathy out there…
“The Australian people are being sleep walked into a system the Attorney-General cannot even articulate.”
Over the weekend I caught up with a couple friends I hadn’t seen for a while. Friends outside of the IT industry.
At one point, when the conversation turned towards politics, I asked if they had heard about the government’s proposed mandatory data retention plan. Neither had.
“Don …