Author Archives: Robert Hill

Visualisation Rocks!.

Posted on 17/07/2007 by Robert Hill

Visualisation is becoming such an important part of development – it allows a level of understanding you simply don’t get from staring at text. Take a recent post from a co-worker (for those of you inside EDS it’s here) post from … Continue reading →

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What’s in a title?

Posted on 11/07/2007 by Robert Hill

Lets hope the content is a little more inspiring than the titles! http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6287628.stm Will Spielberg make a successful cross over to games? Judging the descriptions of his first attempt(s) , the future doesn’t look bright.

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Domain Specific Languages

Posted on 09/07/2007 by Robert Hill

Over the last few months I had the opportunity to implement a DSL for my day job. Well, my day job doesn’t involve writing compilers, but it does involve writing incredibly tedious C code to interface an archaic 4GL – … Continue reading →

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Sold!

Posted on 07/06/2007 by Robert Hill

Finally, my car has been sold. This means i can get back to posting (or at least posting sporadically!), some more thought provoking articles, and some new code examples for the WPF stuff! I’ll be right back. Honest.

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Diary of a Subaru Sale…

Posted on 23/04/2007 by Robert Hill

I’ve had some requests for more pictures of my Subaru – it seems i’d stupidly missed full frontal pics from the last set! I’d parked it close to the garage doors, and couldn’t get round the front!. Anyway, I washed … Continue reading →

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Subaru Impreza for sale :(

Posted on 16/04/2007 by Robert Hill

I’m sad to say, i’ve got to sell my most favourite toy. An absolutely awesome Subaru Impreza Wrx Sti Type-RA. A few pics :

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Synology Bittorrent Problems?

Posted on 25/03/2007 by Robert Hill

I’ve had the Synology Box for a few months now, and up until last night, had absolutely 0 problems. Last night, I had a Bittorrent download complete, but the status in the Download Redirector was showing “Shared Folder not found”. … Continue reading →

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Synology Subversion server

Posted on 19/03/2007 by Robert Hill

I recently purchased a NAS box from Synology, A DS106j. I packed it out with a nice 500gb Hdd, and stuffed all my music on it, with space to spare. The box has some really nice features, Web server with … Continue reading →

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Will Ready Boost kill my USB key?

Posted on 06/03/2007 by Robert Hill

A co-blogger on PlanetEDS (Charlie Bess) posed this question after I commented on his recent blog entry about whether Ready Boost was making any noticable difference. I think it does, but that wasn’t what the comment was about. The question … Continue reading →

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My Platform is better than yours

Posted on 20/02/2007 by Robert Hill

Whilst browsing the EDS Internal Blogs I came across a posting from Phil Haigh, commenting on (this post) the complexities of JEE and how it’s complexity will be the death of it. I don’t think thats particularly true. Its not … Continue reading →

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