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Meltdown Festival 2009

This year’s Meltdown Festival on the South Bank is looking better and better. I already have tickets to three shows, but more great artists keep being added. More »

Tags: meltdown, ornette coleman, the bad plus

Bookmarklets

Not a day goes by without the need at some point to look up a location on Google Maps (UK). Despite the obvious benefits of the quick search bars in All Modern Browsers, I’ve not really taken to them. In theory they’re a great feature, but I find that they make me think too much. More »

Tags: bookmarklet

Nokia N73 User Interface fail

So I need to send an SMS to a friend who has more than one number listed under his name in my phonebook. More »

Tags: n73, nokia

Writing a Win32 DLL in C++ for Oracle extproc

I was recently tasked with writing a Win32 DLL containing functionality to be used by Oracle procedures and functions via extproc. This post describes the steps required to achieve this using Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 and Oracle 10g. More »

Tags: c++, extproc, Oracle, visual studio, win32 dll