Posts
How to test services that make async network calls in Swift and return an Optional
YOW! Connected 2015: Bridging the Designer – Developer Divide by Chris van Raay
Creating an OS X VMware image using Packer
Lassen Volcanic National Park
Redwood National and State Parks
Crater Lake National Park
Keep Portland Weird
Mount Rainier National Park
What the Forks?
Back in the lower 48
Kenai Fjords National Park
Finally, some hiking
Off Into The Wild
Cruising Alaska
Bike riding and one loose seal
What’s one to do in Vancouver?
Hello Vancouver
Off into the wild (soon)
Australia’s highest peak
About 1800 miles
My Great Alaskan Adventure (and more!)
Adventures with Swift and unit testing
10 years of blogging?!?
Objective-C Feature Availability
Objective C, Xcode revisted
Test post from iPad
Monitor your Jenkins build with an Arduino (and some Java code)
Goodbye weekends hello house hunting – week 1
When social media works
Wisdoms from a fortune cookie
Simple RegEx and Closure example in Groovy
Installing Groovy on a Mac
Online shopping, intentional GST loophole or convenience?
Easy integration with Spring Integration
Back to WordPress
Hello world!
As 2010 comes to a close…
Change is in the air
Almost homeward bound
The epic Disney rundown
Disney World Resort = one epic awesome adventure!
It’s nice and sunny in Orlando
Finally New York City… and just in time
Oh Canada, why could you not decide to either rain or be sunny (you were still fun though)
Some pics from the last few days…
Bye Chicago, it’s been better than expected
Oops the camel has a broken hump!
Hello from the Windy City
Farewell national parks road trip
Ahhh the bison herd is coming for us, run for the car!
Close encounters of the bison kind
Yellowstone National Park
Oh look, it’s an elk!
No moose or bears, but another fine day nonetheless
Animal spotting in Grand Teton NP
Downtown Salt Lake City
Farewell Moab, hello Salt Lake City
Standing under the Milky Way
Island in the Sky, Canyonlands National Park
Hiking Arches National Park
Made it to Moab
Bryce Canyon, Utah
The return to the USA
Holiday, mini career break, thinking time coming right up…
Tech gadgets for the flashpacker
Cost conscious travel planning
Easy REST service development with Spring 3
Upcoming adventures…
USA2010
Using Maven and the YUI Compressor plugin to help optimise your site/application performance
IE6 the end is nigh…
Firefox “The connection was reset” woes
A sunny Sydney afternoon at the beach
Stop raining please…
Go ABC3
Home sweet home…
Farewell summer holiday…
Cooking!
A fish nibbled my toes…
Where the Buddhas go…
In Luang Prabung
Floating down the Nam Song river on Christmas Day
Relaxing in Si Phan Don
Hello from Laos
Bye Vietnam, see you again in 2 weeks!
Interesting convos and eating some froggy
Sitting the fog out in Sapa
You buy from me…
Dusty, bumpy, rocky dirt roads = a very sore bum
Halong Bay – jumping of boats, bad karaoke and kayaking
Hello Hanoi (again)
3 day old socks and waterfilled boots…
Another 12 hr train coming right up
Hey from Hue
Stuffing ourselves silly in Hoi An
Epic train journey
Road tripping around the coast
We found the lobster ladies!
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Some photos, maybe even a video, 10,000 dong beers and bargaining (edited with video now)
Late night debacles, Cu Chi tunnels
Totally hot in Saigon!
All packed and ready to roll (fly…)
WD TV Live
Got myself a magical Magic Mouse!
Dare to be different… Introducing Developer Del
Development Fun
jQuery Simple Label plugin
7 years of blogging?!?
36 days to go…
The Teochew ‘implementation’ of Liang
Hilarious! Literal representations of music video clips
An epic week of sleep deprivation…
Adventures in flight bookings + related technology gripes
Woot no longer travelling solo…
From I’m a PC, to Linux and now to I’m a Mac
A rather long hiatus…
So I never did a ‘final’ post… here it is
Baths… thermal baths
Budapest… I like
It’s cold….
Grey skies and rain
Munich
Ice skating at the Rockefeller
Broadway and Friday happenings
Spotted on the steps of the Met
Goodbye SF hello NYC…
Do people wear heels in San Francisco?
Being screened by the TSA
Road trippin’
Grand Canyon National Park
Zion National Park
Greetings from Springdale, Utah
The happiest place on earth
The sun sets in the west… and Venice, an oddity of sorts
Lindsay Lohan, Emmy’s after party in a carpark, $7 chicken teriyaki and onwards to Santa Monica
Runyon Canyon, Beverly Hills and the Hollywood Sign
Hello from Hollywood
Travelling tech gadgets
5 days and counting down…
Travel music planning
It starts… well the real start
A hole filled mouth
Broadsheet papers are not designed for cramped places/spaces
Sometimes I despise public transport
Sport… ahh how I miss thee…
About
A move to Drupal
The weekend…
The sports routine…
A weekend in the nation’s capital and an alpaca in a tiny red car?!?
Toothpaste
Snow Patrol take 3
Sickness sucks
PostSecret Mini-Movie
Why oh why are the Manics playing Summer Sonic and not doing what all bands seem to do and come onwards to Australia?
More nerd related posts…
I’ve semi converted to the darkside?
My toe, my toe, my left big toe
Because someone else marked it first…
Pain, glorious pain…
Finally… see we may just be making a really huge assumption…
Ships
The souped up washing machine
Akismet
I’m not geek enough…
Saturday bike ride
Play!
Mini eggplant pizzas
Adventures in microwave cooking
Deju-vu Facebook convos
It likes to pour when one steps out of the vehicle…
Wild Wild Weather
Would it be considered just a little bit extreme?
Start your pedometers…
Sometimes I would like to kick the screen…
Why me?!? (oh and the meat pie pizza)
The Vista rundown
This is merely for nerd testing purposes…
My consumer service woes continued…
The happenings of the last week (or thereabouts)…
So I’m not awfully religious or anything…
Google April Fools…
Am I just going through a bad bout of customer service lately?
Argh to opt@rse!
I can’t stand IVRs
We bought a balloon dog for $3!
Well I finally rang the tech support…
1 to 10
Blackouts kind of suck
Is it safe?
Lonely People of the World, Unite
Knots knots and more knots
Apparently…
The weather has gone out the window… (was it ever in the window anyway?)
So I somehow landed at the beach
Light outages, cockroaches, spiders (and their webs!) and girly screaming
The crazy weeks continue
The Snow Patrol post
There are conversations people should not have on the bus!
Wasting time…
A bumpy bus with yes more dust…
As it comes to a close…
23 people in a pickup truck
Day 3 of 3… and evading tuk tuk drivers?
Decline the recline? ahh no thanks
Day 2 of 3…
Day 1 of 3…
Random cycling adventures
Finding new accomo…
Markets, bargaining and fake shirts…
Hello from the Internet cafe in Phnom Penh
The inaugural posting…
There’s no place like home…
2 days till…
And I thought I was bad at English…
When You Were Young
Chocolate flavoured Peanut Butter?!?!
Very weird noises
Ticketing nightmares!
Random last minute holidays…
omg… this is awesome in a really weird way
Have I ever mentioned how much I hate mosquitoes?
Geocaching…
Happy ‘07 everyone!
Friday night nerd fun…
Be Ugly ‘07
‘Twas the [second] night before Christmas…
My Secret
It’s been a long 13 days…
Life returns to normal?
Some photos for no particular purpose…
Missing fruit…
Sculpture swimmin’ Saturday
I like colourful shoes
U2 gig
omgwtf more Snow Patrol awesomeness tours…
Hiking, camping, random animals and a ginormous blister on my toe!
When is December coming?
Long time no blog
Bad Engrish!
Ramblings of randomness
The 2038 bug
E is for Entertainment…
I caved and converted
TV season is back!
How much can a little kid pack?
What a weird slogan
I have a new found appreciation of orchestral instruments…
Ben Folds and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra
The roof/ceiling is leaking…
Be Gentle With Me
Why i love where i live
RHCP!!!!! and songs on rotation…
A mission which seems to not have yet ended…
The “Adults” are just pretending… oh and the grand final…
Afternoon tea
Now for a real post…
Argh K2 is is a ………
Mobiles, blogging, photos and Flickr
Flickr
K800i Test
Mobile email and blogging
Ramblings of the Chili Peppers and random people at the end of the street…
Big brother is watching… your garbage bins
Don’t you love public holidays that no one else?
Let’s go get some pedal powerrrrr…
Gig week galore…
A post about everything – television
More on the IT Calendar girls…
Google Maps
Argh I’m so stupid…
Friday night drinkos
Crossed Lines
Google: Behind The Edge
‘Goddesses’ spruik careers
The weekly roundup
The problem with socks…
Coldplay…..
Meh
The Digital Divide
Veronica Mars
Aussie Aussie Aussie…
Another The Living End tour this year?!?
I hate colds!
High pitched screeching…
World Cup Madness
Long live the [long] weekend!
It’s freaking 12 degrees celsius only!
The diet coke and mentos show
Communication, personality types, learning styles
Nothing to blog about…
Watching movies and road trippin’
Peanut Butter M&Ms
The fifth sentence
24
Damn hilarious…
Graduation
17 Seconds
State of Emergency tour
Real Juice
Singstar Rocks!
Saturday night happenings
Lunch time happenings
New Waste Services
Consular Services, High Commission, Foreign Affairs…..
The Nerds FC music video
The Amazing Race
All my music wishes have just come true… (well almost)
Manual driving lesson
Eyes Open
Movies, markets, thai food and soccer
Feel the pain
Protected: Okay I know I’m an early morning person and all…
Exercise overload!
The National Public Toliet Map
Music nostalgia
Gone fishing…
Bauer is so Hoff right now
Nerds FC
How did I land up on a CD shopping spree…
The Spit to Manly
Boot Camp
The things you hear on buses…
The day’s round up
Google Romance – like WTF?!?
Office craft offs…
Knitting for psychos
“TV networks must learn to go with the bitflow”
One of life’s mysteries solved…
Another weekend, another hospital adventure…
The modern office…
Advertising on coffee cups?!?
Don’t diss the juju
I got it…
Mission to track down PostSecret
This made me smile…
Shopping Sunday and people who dress as donkeys (or is that asses?)… oh and bicycle couriers playing the trumpet in Martin Place at 8am
Musical Saturday
Real Life Simpsons Intro
We’re dressed the same!
Nothing much…
Marrakesh…
12 hours of sleep later
Songs currently spinning
Long queues and beer
Random moments on buses
Sometimes don’t you hate technology?
Sydney traffic
Woah I’ve converted
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