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• Using an iPad to access remote Windows desktops

  Jul 16, 2011 · ipad · rdp · vnc

  I went from initial scepticism, when I started looking for a usable iPad remote desktop solution for accessing Windows PCs, to (almost) wild enthusiasm.

  I evaluated four of the best iPad remote access apps and am delighted to have found one that does exactly what I want. This post outlines why I settled on Jump Desktop along with a few usage tips.

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• CoffeeScript for Command-line Apps

  Jul 8, 2011 · clickatell · coffeescript · commandline · nodejs · sms

  Updated: 2011-10-27: published the app to github and the npm registry.

  This post details my learning experience porting a command-line application I previously wrote in Python to CoffeeScript.

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• W3C Command-line Validator

  Apr 29, 2011 · python · validator · W3C

  A command-line script (written in Python) for validating HTML and CSS files and URLs using the WC3 validators.

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• Bottle + MongoDB Example

  Mar 17, 2011 · Bottle · MongoDB · python

  A didactic Web application written in Python to illustrate how to use the Bottle web-framework with the MongoDB database.

  It’s a port I made of Mike Dirolf’s DjanMon application (how to use Django with MongoDB).

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• Android Development with VirtualBox and the LG P500 phone

  Jan 7, 2011 · Android · VirtualBox

  Having recently acquired my first smart-phone (a new LG P500 Android phone) I decided it was time to learn some Android programming. This post summarizes my trials and tribulations getting the LG P500 phone to talk to my Android Eclipse development environment (Eclipse plus Android SDK running on a VirtualBox Linux guest).

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