If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Not sure how to subscribe to a RSS feed? Read Subscribing to blogs the easy way. Thanks for visiting!Looks like I’m not the only one to have problems with friends and family wanting help with their computers. I’ve talked about this before [...]

I’ve decided to move coverage of the PowerTime time series database project over onto its own blog (or at least my own personal blog).
I doubt too many readers of this blog would be interested in the nitty gritty details of the implementation of PowerTime, so it seems logical to create a more dedicated space for [...]

Whilst Google Code is a very good open source repository service, it does have a few wrinkles. Take the image below:

Unless I’ve been missing something these last few years, there are only 24 hours in a day!

The chances are that the vast majority of the people reading this post are professional IT people in some capacity or another.
As professionals we are prone to burn out unless we take specific precautions to prevent it. Bashing your head against the IT firewall everyday can leave you feeling a bit empty and burnt out.
From [...]

Excellent post on the Pushing Pixels blog about surviving a hobby open source project. Well worth a read if you are involved in a single person open source project.

One of the interesting things about Lisp is the ability to use macros to effectively create your own language. Instead of using Lisp to solve your problem, write a language in which your problem can be solved and then solve it using your own mini-language.
When I heard of the new features in Powershell v2, the [...]

So that’s where I’ve been going wrong all of these years … if only I’d known this earlier I’d currently be sunning myself  on a beach in the Bahamas.

I am currently in the process of broadening my knowledge of Windows Powershell and I thought I’d post some of the excellent resources I’ve found. Many are available for free online, some you’ll have to shell out money for. The book, Windows Powershell in Action, is well worth buying if you want to gain an [...]