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Compiling / playing nethack 3.6.0 on Ubuntu or Debian
December 26, 2015UPDATE: Instructions added for enabling the hilite status feature to get nice coloured Hitpoint & Hunger highlighting_ After a 10+ year…
Watching Movies on Google Nexus 7
September 14, 2013The Google Nexus 7 has an amazing screen, and is portable enough with a good enough battery to be used as an in-flight entertainment system…
Root Samsung Galaxy S4 GT-I9505G 4.2.2 on Mac OSX
August 27, 2013Rooting the SGS4 GT-I9505G on OSX shouldn’t be this hard, should it? But, it is. Setup VirtualBox (don’t forget the Extension Pack ) with…
San Francisco City - A Sydney sider's perspective
July 29, 2013San Francisco is unique. Just like every other city…
Interesting things in Silicon Valley on my First Day
July 23, 2013Bikes. Everywhere! Thought Sydney had a lot of cyclists? That’s nothing on the huge number of people riding around the Bay Area! Tech logos…
Starting out in California for Dummies (aka: Australians)
July 21, 2013So, you’ve moved from Australia to California? Great for you! Got no idea what you’re doing? Me either! But, here’s some tips I’ve…
IE7's CSS breaking "content: counter" bug
April 03, 2013I came across a peculiar bug today while testing theiconic.com.au in IE7; Completely breaks IE7’s CSS parser for the current .css file…
CyanogenMod 10.1 bootloop fix
March 09, 2013Update (2013-07-22): The libskia.so file location has been updated. You can now download it from here After updating my Samsung Galaxy S…
Installing mojito on Ubuntu 12.10
February 09, 2013Installing Mojito should be a simple task using Ubuntu’s Package manager… Install the required node and npm dependancies Update npm: Clear…
SoundWave 2013 Sydney Timetable Calendars
February 09, 2013I have put together some public calendars which contain the timetables of each stage for SoundWave 2013 at Olympic Park, Sydney on 24th…
The Visitor Pattern in PHP
December 04, 2012Implementing the Visitor Pattern requires the ability to dynamically determine the type of the Visitor and the type of the “Element” (aka…
Inserting a function into all classes in a directory via Terminal
April 18, 2012Or; Multi-line Search and Replace regular expression on the Command Line. The situation You have a single abstract class which is extended…
Testing Cron Jobs for the correct user
January 16, 2012Testing Cron Jobs in Linux can be a pain - especially if you’re using a tool like CPanel which abstracts away some of the processing…
The Terminal 101
January 11, 2012What is the Terminal? The Terminal is simply a way to execute commands and to view the files on your computer. It is very similar to the…
Zend Framework Quickstart with MySQL
January 08, 2012The Zend Framework Quickstart guide is a great place to start with the Framework, however it bases the example program on SQLite. As MySQL…
PHPUnit Bootstrap and Autoloading classes
November 29, 2011The PHPUnit Bootstrap is perfect when there is code to be run before tests are executed. The limitation however is there can only be one…
Play Framework, Google App Engine, Java, and HTML5 Boilerplate
November 11, 2011Getting started with a new project shouldn’t be hard. But, it is . We have so many different packages to consider and integrate into our…
Install a Play Framework module from source
November 11, 2011The Play Framework provides a great flexible Module system whereby any stand-alone code can be separated entirely from your main…
Setting up Vim & Ogre3D in Ubuntu
November 11, 2011Ogre3D is a great corss-platform game development library. Unfortunately, it is mostly aimed at those using a GUI based IDE. Since I use Vim…
Setting up Vim & Play! Framework
November 11, 2011Vim is my preferred editor for programming. However, it has been suggested that other more “full-featured” IDE’s are suitable for use with…
TextMate-like snippets in Vim with SnipMate
November 11, 2011Using snippets to save on development time is always one of those “I’ll do it soon” tasks that I see everyone else doing but never get…
Zibbet nominated for best handmade market place - Vote now!
November 11, 2011Zibbet is an online handmade artisan marketplace. Basically, you buy and sell handmade goods there. I’m responsible for a sizable chunk of…
Testing using Mocks & Stubs with PHPUnit
November 11, 2011Now that we’ve got PHPUnit setup , we need to start writing the unit tests. My immediate needs are to Unit test two classes, the first…
Installing PHPUnit on Ubuntu Linux
November 11, 2011To install PHPUnit, there are two direct dependencies which first need to be installed; PEAR Xdebug As Xdebug also depends on PEAR, we’ll…
Come one, come all!
November 11, 2011Welcome to the new site of Jess Telford! This will be the space for all the rants and ravings I can come up with whilst romping through the…