Since my last poke about with Thunderbird I’ve been using Outlook Web Access and Gmail from home and trusty old Outlook 2007 at work.
But wait! It now looks like I can have my cake and eat it! IMAP support (as announced back in October) has been enabled on my Gmail account. Hurray!
I dusted off Thunderbird [...]
Category Archives: Software
Using Gmail IMAP to Import Mail
Saturday, November 10, 2007
Domain specific langauges
Sunday, October 7, 2007
Domain specific languages often serve the purpose they were designed for better than a general scripting language.
At work we use a tool call ‘m’ every day. In fact it’s a vital part of our infrastructure. Generally one of the first milestones of a new platform is getting ‘m’ generating files for the tool chain. The [...]
Windows PowerShell
Sunday, July 8, 2007
I’ve been following the Windows PowerShell and the PowerShell team blog on and off for some time. It was released not too long after Vista but I never really go round to checking it out properly until this afternoon. I have been looking for some inspiration on how we can bring together some of our [...]
Lua
Monday, June 18, 2007
I really like the Lua programming language. It’s small, easy to embed and easy to learn. I’ve used Lua successfully in several projects with varying levels of integration from simple extensions to full object hierarchy extensions, RPC support, data replication and all logic for client, server and UIs.
Lua makes some interesting design decisions which I [...]
Ubuntu
Thursday, June 7, 2007
About once a year I get an itch to install Linux as a desktop machine. It never really lasts very long as inevitably I need to boot into Windows for some reason or another then end up forgetting about the Linux installation and eventually recovering the disk space.
Recently my laptop was screaming at my to [...]