Gadget: Milk Frother
Mon, Jan 30th 2012 2:23p Neil Gower Just a quick post, as you may know I have a small (read massive) addition to coffee. I was in Comet the other day and picked up a milk frother as it was only 14 GBP. As long as you don't over fill it you will get quite hot and very frothy milk, well worth 14 GBP. [read] Keywords: gadget
Audit Manager 3.0.0 - Looking for Testers
Fri, Dec 30th 2011 5:23a Neil Gower Well I finally finished the new version of Audit Manager. Its been a massive overhaul of the application, and I hope it makes it easier to use, it provides a significant amount of new functionality, especially around deployment and maintenance. Due to a change in the relationship between Audits and Logs you cannot upgrade from version 2.x.x to version 3.0.0, I will be providing a migration tool at a later date, once I am sure that version 3.0.0 is stable. And that's where you come in... I would [read] Keywords: application
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Christmas Tech - Part 1 - WDTV Live
Thu, Dec 29th 2011 6:42a Neil Gower As readers of my blog may know, I always buy myself some Tech at Christmas. This year instead of a large item I bought a few smaller bits of tech, and over the next few weeks I will be covering all of them. First up is the WDTV Live. The WDTV Live is a media streaming device, so it allows me to access all the TV shows and films that I have saved on my NAS, and play them on my TV. I already have a PS3 which I was using for media streaming, but I was getting increasingly frustrated with its inabi [read] Keywords: apple
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Audit Manager Reaches 3000 Downloads
Sat, Nov 5th 2011 5:43p Neil Gower I noticed today that my Audit Manager project has just had its 3000 download. I would be really interested in hearing from people who use it, what they use if for, and what problems they have solved. If you would like to email me and tell me what you are using Audit Manager for please drop me a line on neilgower at gmail.com [read] Keywords: email
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Audit Manager: Windows 64 bit Support Releases
Thu, Oct 27th 2011 7:03a Neil Gower Just a quick post, there is now a new version of Audit Manager on OpenNTF, this version contains no changes apart from supporting 64 bit Windows. 64 bit Windows support is new, so please test before you use it in anger! [read] Keywords: openntf
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Audit Manager New Version: Jumping Through Hoops!
Thu, Oct 20th 2011 8:23a Neil Gower I am planning to release a new version of Audit Manager, it does not have any new features (there are more features in the pipeline), but a friend of mine Geoff Anderson has re-compiled the 32 bit .dll to support 64bit Windows. I packaged the code up and tried to upload it to OpenNTF, however since I last uploaded code to OpenNTF a number of changes have been made, and there is more rigour around IP rights etc, so I cannot upload the software at the moment. Having read all the guidance notes on [read] Keywords: notes
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OpenNTF X-Pages or Traditional Domino Projects
Mon, Jul 25th 2011 6:02a Neil Gower Hi, I am the project chef on a couple of projects on OpenNTF, now unfortunately, I do not have as much time as I would like to maintain the applications I have posted on the site. I am planning a new release of Audit Manager, I am just waiting on a friend of mine who is working on supporting Domino 64 bit, but I have a specific question to ask around OpenTV. You may be aware that this is a "traditional" i.e. non X-Pages based Domino application to host videos on your intranet, I was thinking l [read] Keywords: agent
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Cool Tablet or Laptop Stand
Wed, Jul 13th 2011 5:02p Neil Gower It was my birthday today, and its been quite eventful, but more about that in another blog. I did want to share one really cool present that my partner gave me (actually she gave me lots of cool presents). I was thinking of buying the docking station for my Advent Vega tablet, but they have been out of stock, and are now discontinued. For my birthday today I got a PadPod, its a portable fold up stand that you can use for your Tablet or Laptop, instead of trying to describe it, here is a video. [read] Keywords: laptop
Rain Stops Play!
Mon, Jun 13th 2011 4:28p Neil Gower I finally got around to purchasing a new helicopter, I have been meaning to buy a new bird since August last year. So I finally take the plunge and get an Eflite MCPX helicopter, my first collective pitch bird, and since it arrived its either been raining, or there has been strong wind! So I am praying for good weather this weekend, or this will turn out to be a very expensive box! [read] Keywords:
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Vegacomb 1.5.2
Tue, Jun 7th 2011 10:42a Neil Gower I recently purchased an Advent Vega tablet, I could not justify the cost of an iPad2, so went with an Android 2.2 (Froyo) tablet at 199 GBP. Its a pretty neat piece of hardware, fairly good screen (tight viewing angles, but good for privacy), HDMI connector, proper USB, and MicroSD card slot . Its also got a fast processor in the form of the Tegra dual core 1GHZ, and this is what makes it really interesting.... it meets the specs of Honeycomb. Out of the box its not well setup, it comes with a c [read] Keywords: community
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Audit Manager - Testers Required
Sat, Jan 1st 2011 1:06p Neil Gower Over the New Year period I have finally had some time to update and add new features to my Audit Manager project. Its been a while since I last issued a new version (around 2008), as from a features point of view I thought it pretty much complete, however over the last few months a number of people have contacted me and asked for a number of new features, especially improved ability to manage the log databases. I have also taken the opportunity to fix a couple of bugs that have been reported. I [read] Keywords: application
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Gadget Surprise
Thu, Dec 30th 2010 7:01a Neil Gower Well I have not bought my gadget yet, however I did receive a really cool gadget as a Christmas present... Its a mini digital video camera, you can get an idea of how small this is from the MicroSD slot in the side. Now I know what you are thinking, what could someone possibly use a video camera that small for.... well dont panic its for my helicopters. This camera is ideal to enable some of my larger helicopters to be used as video platforms, so when the weather improves I w [read] Keywords: gadget
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Flying at the Weekend
Mon, Aug 30th 2010 5:13p Neil Gower In the UK its been a bank holiday weekend, so three days off. I think all weekend should be three days for a number of reasons... You get fully rested and refreshed, during a normal weekend you start to wind down on Saturday, are chilled Sunday morning, and wind up on Sunday afternoon. This gives you a half day sweet spot. During a bank holiday you get a day and a half sweet spot As you are fully rested you get just as much work done, if not more in the four day working week In the UK because [read] Keywords: application
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Planet Lotus I did get Birthday Presents
Fri, Jul 16th 2010 3:55a Neil Gower Volker posted a comment on my blog pointing me towards how yesterdays birthday blog entry looks on Planet Lotus I must admin as soon as I got in the office and read Volkers post I laughed out loud! Luckily I did get presents... Note to self, sort out tagging on this site! [read] Keywords: admin
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Birthday Presents
Thu, Jul 15th 2010 4:37p Neil Gower I am rapidly heading towards 40, not sure how that happened, I was 25 the last time I looked. Still when you have a birthday you get presents, and again this year I got some crackers. Kodak Play Sport Hi Def Video Camera Last year I got the Kodak ZX-1 HD video camera, and it was a great little machine, this year I got the new version, its now 1080p, has electronic stabilisation (much needed), but most fun off al it is water proof to 3 meters, should be great when swimming in the se [read] Keywords:
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Helicopter Fleet
Sat, May 8th 2010 6:24a Neil Gower A couple of people have emailed me asking how many helicopters I have now, so here is a picture of the current "fleet" of helicopters. [read] Keywords:
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Esky Honey Bee V2
Wed, May 5th 2010 4:19p Neil Gower Received a new helicopter today, a Honey Bee V2. This is fixed pitch helicopter, so much harder to fly than the coaxials that I currently have, I am hoping the E-flite MSR micro heli I have been flying for the last month or so will have prepared me for this machine. Still I am sure I am going to crash a lot, and probably injure myself lol. Usefully it takes the same lipo battery as my Esky Big Lama, so I will have batteries worth of flying before recharging... I will post some video when [read] Keywords:
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Defect Density Tools
Thu, Apr 1st 2010 5:05a Neil Gower Are there tools for the Domino platform that can identify how many lines of code have changed between different versions of a Notes database. I would like to start looking at defect density (no of defects against number of lines of code changed). I know that Team Studio has delta, but can that tool identify the number of lines of code (Lotuscript, Formula, Javascript, Jave etc) that has changed and give a simple report on the number of changes. Does anyone know of a tool that would help me, rath [read] Keywords: domino
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Another Helicopter
Wed, Mar 17th 2010 9:46a Neil Gower Ohh my god I am totally addicted to buying and flying (badly) helicopters. The latest addition to my fleet is the E-Flite Blade MSR. I had not planned to get another heli, but it was on special offer at half price for the bind and fly version. So I had to didn't I !!! Its a great little heli, very similar to the Solo Pro, but it has better flight characteristics, is faster (more crashes) and luckily is better built (crossing fingers). I am going to have lots of fun with this one, and its sma [read] Keywords:
