Author Archives: Andy Callaghan

New host, new version, new job, new uni year.

A lot is happening behind the scenes at the moment with my life… I have been developing a major project for my sister, involving e-commerce, secure multimedia downloading and streaming, RSS jiggery pokery – all under a new CMS called … Continue reading

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Brother MFC 215c printing in Suse 10.2

This may be very specific all of a sudden, but I've been having a few problems installing my Brother MFC 215c printer on Linux. To aid anyone that needs to know, this is how ya do it…  Download the CUPS … Continue reading

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Mod_rewrite underscores as dashes in URLs

At work I was faced with a problem — to rewrite all the URLs of a website that have underscores in, to dashes. This is to aid a painful transition to manage the website with the MODx php CMS. Here … Continue reading

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Google Sitemap template for Movable Type

I got annoyed that all the current Google happy site maps for Movable Type out there are not complete, and do not span you're entire site's pages… therefore I made another one. Feel free to take it and play, so … Continue reading

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How to Hack Silverlight for Linux in 21 days

A developer and his team from the Mono project were offered by Microsoft a 10 – 20 minute presentation on the Mono project's efforts on bringing Silverlight to Linux. As all they had working at that point was a rectangle … Continue reading

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MS Slide7: Go to hell Hull

I recently went to a Microsoft event in Reading called SLIDE7. We were informed of the event by a lecturer at the University. It is a Web development day put on by Microsoft, dedicated to students; Or at least I … Continue reading

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New personal code website

I'm setting up a new C, C++ and PHP coding website, where I'll be releasing select scripts and programs that I complete. The first project that has just been uploaded is the Facebook + MovableType Mashup plugin.  Please visit: http://code.andycallaghan.com

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Facebook App v1 complete

After a good coding session, I've completed version 1 of the Microplop.com Feed App. This is it's main canvas page: As you can see, the layout is not completely polished, but it does the job quite nicely at the moment. … Continue reading

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I love the Facebook Platform

Of late I have been tinkering and experimenting a lot with the new Facebook Platform which has recently been released. Firstly, I created an app that pulls the last 4 entries from a Movable Type installation, and presents the page … Continue reading

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Apple release Safari Beta for Windows

In a move to further Apple's brand on PCs, they announced yesterday that the new Safari 3 beta version is to be made available for Windows users. In a statement, Steve Jobs said: "We think Windows users are going to … Continue reading

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