Archive for October, 2007

Installing Mythbuntu 7.10

26Oct07

Mythbuntu is “an Ubuntu derivative focused upon setting up a standalone MythTV system similar to Knoppmyth or Mythdora”. The last time I installed MythTV I did it on a standard Ubuntu desktop installation. The problem with this is that as well as ending up with a load of software you don’t really need you have [...]

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Mashup Camp 5 - Dublin

23Oct07

Mashup Camp Dublin is coming up and IBM are running a Business Mashup Challenge.
Amazon’s Web Services are very appealing so I was thinking of putting together a mashup that shows you the price of a book from each of Amazon’s international sites in your own local currency and with postage included. Unfortunately (well for me [...]

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Meteor WebSMS

10Oct07

As a Java5/JUnit4/Maven2 learning exercise I’ve written a simple little SMS command line utility called Meteor WebSMS. It allows you to bypass Meteor’s website and send the free web SMS messages they offer from your command line (you have to be a Meteor customer of course).
The API is completely separate from the the command line [...]

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