I had been having some trouble recently attempting to stream mp4 and 3gp files to my Xbox 360 using uShare on Ubuntu 11.10.  avi files were streaming fine, though when it came to stream the mp4/3gp, I was getting a circle with a cross through on the Xbox360 when these files were shown up. A [...]

I have been moving one of my projects to JBoss AS 7, after this has recently been released.  The issue I have found so far is that the support for this community product is pretty thin so far with it only being out since July (I think?). Oracle JDBC driver can be installed by simply [...]

Two articles that are probably of interest to other techie people. UK broadband providers BT and TalkTalk are given the green light that they now must combat internet piracy.  This is probably going to have a large effect on these two as people are likely to migrate to other smaller ISPs that are not expected [...]

Just the other day I was looking at updating my delicious.com bookmarks.  The problem however, was that they did not supply any instructions or indication on how this could be done for the Google Chrome browser.  To my joy, it was easy enough -- so I thought I would share this. You can simply open [...]

UPDATE 18/09/11: Auto-Express magazine contacted me and wanted to feature this story in their magazine.  After this Suzuki agreed to replace the part at their cost.  They arranged for Grenson Garages (Suzuki) in Crewe to complete the repair, this involved a replacement throttle body.  So far so good, I have not experienced the problem up [...]

Part of my project involves solving an NP-Complete puzzle (the Kriss Kross), I've chosen to do this through modelling it as a Constraint Satisfaction Problem.  The python prototype I'd used (along with the improvements to the python-constraint library that I have submitted to the owner) works very well indeed.  For a HARD size 60 puzzle [...]

I'm currently collaborating with an experience analyst on a stock ranking and analysis platform.  So far this has been an excellent opportunity to share my technical experience and knowledge, in return gaining experience and insight into the financial modelling side.  A vast amount of work currently has gone into the discussions and design of the [...]

I've been playing around with Python and the python-constraint library that is available.  After battling with python for a while, I figured out how the library worked and how to extend it without breaking its pre-processing and forward checking functionality. As part of my testing I use the following code to describe my custom constraints [...]

So, as part of my project I've been looking for a constraint programming library for a language I'm quite familiar with (i.e. Java/C#/C).  JaCoP the Java library was the first I'd checked out, fairly simple to use, well documented.  Similar story for ChocoSolver, extremely well documented and simple to use.   My problem with these [...]

Have been recently working very hard on designing and implementing a cipher. I'd chosen to create a block cipher. Finding it a lot of fun, but very time consuming. The C source code shall be available here after my project has been submitted. Busy busy busy!