Hiddentao Labs

I'm quite pleased to announce availability of my latest mini-project - an efficient Javascript implementation of the Lempel-Ziv-Welsh (LZW) compression algorithm.

A recent client wished to integrate the Redmine issue tracking system with their front-end software change request system.

I'm currently working on an an implementation of the LZW algorithm in Javascript and one of the things I need to decide to test out is whether using an Array is faster than using an Object for storage and retrieval of items which are indexed numerically.

Introducing wuPlay.com, an experiment in real-time multiplayer gaming on a mobile-friendly website. wuPlay is a web-based multiplayer implementation of the excellent Connect6 game that works well on desktops, tablets as well as on most good mobile devices…

For a project I'm currently working on I need to be able to generate a file in Javascript and then prompt the user to save it to their hard drive.

Some of my latest projects rely heavily on jQuery's AJAX method to perform AJAX requests against the server-side code.

For a recent project I needed to deploy a custom build of PHP 5.2 to multiple Lucid servers.

This post outlines the steps needed to get PHP 5.2 running on Ubuntu 10.04 ("Lucid Lynx") 64-bit under nginx and FastCGI with APC enabled.

I've just started using the excellent RequireJS library with a new Javascript-heavy project I'm working on.

I've recently started using Vagrant to create and deploy virtualized development environments and thought I'd post the steps required to get it working on Ubuntu 10.10 ("Maverick Meerkat").

Last Friday I was looking for a simple online calculator which I could use via a web browser and which was mobile friendly.

Recently I've been focussing more and more on performance in the web projects I'm working on.

For the Tornado project I'm currently working on I decided to get continuous integration setup on my Debian Lenny server.

On a recent Drupal project I was asked to build an interface whereby administrators could easily bulk-edit the stock levels for all their Ubercart products.

Today I found myself needing to render pager links in Drupal 6 for a list of items.

Today I decided to make my first purchase on the Android Market.

I've recently begun using Git for some of my software projects.

Remember My Three Words?

Last weekend I attended a retreat with Chinmya Mission UK, a non-profit organisation which promotes the Advaita Vedanta philosophies.

I'm currently doing some work for Miura, a digital design agency based in London.

A number of users of Page Tagger have emailed in asking how to get their page tags showing on their pages.

I've been using Dropbox for a while now.

A while back I decided to write a simple 3D graphics engine in Java after being inspired by Daniel Tebbutt's Bedlam solver.

A new version of Page Tagger is now available.

This is a new version of Page Tagger that has been tested to work with Wordpress 2.9.

This is a new version of Page Tagger that has been tested to work with Wordpress 2.8.6.

This weekend just gone I attended Launch48, an event where the objective was to build a viable commercial web application in just 48 hours with a diverse group of random people you meet at the event itself.

A plugin user recently wrote in asking me how to create an archives page like mine.

Having worked at Symbian a few years ago and gotten to learn about mobile operating systems, I believe that Symbian have the best mobile OS kernel in terms of performance, responsiveness and robustness.

One of my current clients is the Sandbag Climate Campaign.

This is a new version of Page-Tags that works with Wordpress 2.8.4.

This is a new version of Page-Tags that works with Wordpress 2.8.4.

A couple of days ago I bought the classic track Amen UK - Passion (Paul Masterson Radio Edit) from [TescoDigital](http://www.tescodigital.com/Store/Pages/SearchResults2.aspx?

A recently noticed issue with the Page-Tags plugin was that if you added a new tag when editing a page the tag didn't show up in the tag cloud sidebar widget.

I do all the development work for this site on my local machine, using a mirror copy of the live database and Wordpress installation.

A few weeks ago I upgraded to Wordpress 2.7 and was immediately liking the new admin interface and all the other features.

For about a year now I've been using Trac as my software project management system.

I've always thought it was cool that Flickr would say "Hello" to you in a different language each time you logged in.

Yesterday I upgraded this site to Wordpress 2.6.

I've had a Yahoo!

Here's a cool interview with Anjan Lahiri, one of the co-founders of Mindtree: http://www.bcs.org/server.php?

I've just upgraded the blog to Wordpress 2.5.

Most households in the UK that are connected to the internet are have got a broadband connection.