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I've just set up a new cool wall at work. It's a complete copy of the famous "Top Gear" cool wall. Back when I worked for Les Mills Asia Pacific this provided a great outlet for geeky debate - it also...

WMS is a standard protocol used to request mapping data from an OGC compliant map server - two common open source implementations include mapserver and geoserver. WMS renders the tiles server side and...

Ran into an interesting bug today that I thought I should share with the interwebs. We have a web application that supports RESTful http requests to interact with the system. Seems to work fine using...

For the last couple of months I have been using a Livescribe smart pen - in a nutshell, it records what you write, and can (optionally) record audio. Using the Livescribe software, you can download yo...

I've recently started a new job (Java web development) - watch this space, I'll be blogging about it very soon - and have needed to set up some external monitoring and performance testing quickly. I'v...