Daniel Parker

I had a very confused evening debugging my new XTEINK X3 when trying to use Koreader Sync.

I wanted to share a tool I use daily, that does what does so well that I sometimes even forget that it’s there.

When I read an interesting book or article, I always struggle to remember the things I’m learning.

Spotify is a great service that embodies the idea that piracy is a distribution problem not a money problem.

One of the interesting features of Kindle is the ability to subscribe to newspapers or magazines and get them delivered to your Kindle when a new issue is released.

My Bash start-up time is around 1.7 seconds.

Very often, when I want to test the performance of something, most of the time I end up using time. time, however, lacks a certain amount of scientific rigor, it only runs the thing you’re testing once and gives three different times which can mean slight…

One of the downsides to the great Reeder app is syncing feeds between Desktop and Mobile.

Containers A container is an object that contains a reference to another object.

Everything in Python is an object.

Cool Things is a series of intereting things, resources or projects that I’ve found. basecs is a great blog series by Vaidehi Joshi on some of the Computer Science fundamentals that you might not have picked up if you don’t have a formal education, or like

Cool Things is a series of intereting things, resources or projects that I’ve found.

I was transferring old blog posts from Blogspot to Hugo a few days ago and came across a post I wrote in 2010 about the benefits of reading an eBook on Kindle vs the newly released iPad.

5 days ago Twitch, the popular streaming platform for games, delivered the following bombshell.

What would you do if you lived for 3000 years?

Back in the rose-tinted days of the 1990’s, when the sun was always shining and flowers blomed all year round, I had a Super Nintendo Entertainment System, probably more commonly known as a SNES.

So, I’m trying to learn French.

A little delayed (it has been a very busy few weeks) but still important announcement from Inspiratech: We have advanced to the UK final!

So it’s a brand new year, I’m still getting used to seeing and writing 2011 instead of 2010 - a mistake i’ll probably still be making in August.

Lots of people think Computer Science is all about programming.

It seems that the most popular way to find new talent these days is to run some sort of competition, Microsoft have the Imagine Cup, Google have the Google Code Jam, not to mention TopCoder.

Roughly 3 months ago I blogged about the creation of our Imagine Cup team; Inspiratech.

Progress on RefuCate is coming along nicely, with our first submission a mere 2 weeks away, it’s all starting to come together now.

After weeks of toiling in front of a hot monitor, Josh has finished the Inspiratech website!

I’m currently working on a small project for WP7, in order to help familiarise myself with the tool set in preparation for the Imagine Cup.

First of all I would like to thank Microsoft for inviting me to what was a truly awesome event!

Today Microsoft are running a very special event in London and I am very please to have the opportunity to attend!

I’m trying out one of the more impressive ways to learn a new language - Ruby Koans The basic idea is to learn a language by doing, not by reading or blindly following tutorials.

Ever wanted to easy test your shiny new Rails app on a real web server?

Each year Microsoft runs a competition called the Imagine Cup, the world’s largest student technology competition.

One of the highlights of Node Knockout (which by the way, had some really amazing entries - and there’s still time to vote) is Swarmation.

I hate this argument.

On Friday 11th June I had the privilege to attend Microsoft’s ‘Fun, Free Friday’ event; showcasing many different and free applications and how they can be used for learning.

So I’ve caved and I’m going to start blogging again.