Comments for Damian Beresford

Comment on Hello Ubuntu, so long Microsoft (forever!) by bytecode

bytecode — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 23:36:23 +0000

Eighteen months on from your post, I thought I’d mention a Tortoise-alike svn front end that works beautifully on Ubuntu Linux – RabbitVCS, it integrates with Nautilus in a similar fashion to that with which Tortoise integrated with Explorer.

I believe that it’s not just limited to SVN either.

It even does the icon overlays that give an indication of the state of the folder/file (up-todate, changed, added etc.)

We use it for our development all of the time.

http://www.rabbitvcs.org/

Comment on Annoying limitation in Flex PhoneNumberValidator by John

John — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:59:36 +0000

Great, thanks for the class. There’s only one thing I think its not working, when you set the property “required=false”, the validator is also triggered. The only way to fix it is to set the minlength to 0, missing that property…

Comment on Annoying limitation in Flex PhoneNumberValidator by Fabio Biondi

Fabio Biondi — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 16:43:29 +0000

I always built custom validators and I never used the PhoneNumberValidator until today.

So I opened the PhoneNumberValidator Class and I discovered it too.
Amazing… I would like to know the monkey that has developed this component

So, thanx a lot for your class.
It works perfectly and I avoid to waste time to write it…

Fabio

Comment on Recent mini-project, my cheap (~€150 ex-vat) media center PC by Kieran

Kieran — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 18:09:37 +0000

Excellent post – great work. A bit beyond me but bookmarked to show others.

Comment on Twitter TV by Joe Scanlon

Joe Scanlon — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 18:04:34 +0000

That’s pretty sweet Damian – Well done

Comment on What I’ve been reading of late.. by Jamie

Jamie — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 10:28:36 +0000

Hi Damian,
for some weird stuff I’d recommend any of the sci by Neal Stephenson epic stuff. My favourite along with Gibson.

Jamie

Comment on What I’ve been reading of late.. by Pierce

Pierce — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 12:17:42 +0000

Hiya Damo,
I’ve been using a Facebook app called Visual Bookshelf for a while now, I fed it my reading for the last 6+ years, so there’s probably a few things you’d like in there….

On the “hard scifi” front – Alastair Reynolds, Vernor Vinge, not forgetting Gibson and Stephenson

On the wackier front – China Mieville, Charles Stross, anything by John Brunner or Philip K. Dick

On the fantasy front – “Curse of Chalion” and “Paladin of Souls” by Lois McMaster Bujold, and “Ash” by Mary Gentle were entertainingly different.

Oh, and anything by Chuck Palahniuk is worth a read.

Comment on Recent mini-project, my cheap (~€150 ex-vat) media center PC by Damian

Damian — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 11:12:25 +0000

@Carl no I didn’t, I only came across XBMC when I already had the OS up and running.

@Paul yeah if you have any invites I’d like to give it a try, cheers. Am also going to try SongBird on it, see how that works out too.

Comment on Recent mini-project, my cheap (~€150 ex-vat) media center PC by Carl

Carl — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 08:40:07 +0000

Better and cheaper is to buy a motherboard with integrated graphics.

Have you tried “XBMC Live” installed onto a 2GB USB key to boot on?

Comment on Recent mini-project, my cheap (~€150 ex-vat) media center PC by Paul Watson

Paul Watson — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 23:32:41 +0000

I meant Boxee. Damned iPhone auto-correct