TaskMonifier is a small C# application which monitors the CPU utilisation and when this falls beneath a pre-set level and user-defined action will be triggered. I wrote this to enable me to easily get notifications when a processing-intensive task (like data analysis, panorama stitching or video encoding) had finished. It’s currently unsupported
UrlPipe was my first app built with node.js and Redis. I wanted to easily suck files down off the Internet and straight to Dropbox, without doing the download-upload dance. It’s particularly for mobile devices or computers which don’t have the Dropbox client installed (like my work laptop). The core was written an a day but [...]
Dual Pricing was a small website which allowed the public to compare UK Sterling prices and the Euro equivalents being charged in Ireland. At this time, many shops would display both the Sterling and Euro prices and these could be entered into the site. The site would calculate the actual markup being applied by the shots [...]
Like so many things, getting great photographs is about planning and being in the (cliched) right place at the right time. But landscape photographers don’t have any control over the weather conditions. The best we can do is to scout out potential locations, visualise the shots we want and the conditions we need, and hope [...]