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giffgaff Earning - £90 in two months!

I just updated my giffgaff earnings post with the figures from this month. I did a lot less than last month, but it still amounts to £90 in two months! I moved from O2 to giffgaff to save money - I never imagined they'd be paying me instead! Now if I can
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tags: mobile phones
Sep 07 2010 11:43 AM
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Did Microsoft Just Kill Windows Phone 7? (Part 2, Answer: No?)

Yesterday I posted some info that suggested a two-tier Xbox LIVE marketplace on Windows Phone 7, and that I thought it was a massive mistake on Microsoft's part. Today I had a lengthy chat with Paul Foster, a Microsoft Developer Evangelist, about that
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tags: xna
Aug 19 2010 01:37 PM
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Did Microsoft Just Kill Windows Phone 7?

Ever since I had my first iPaq with the .NET Compact Framework, I've wanted to code for a Microsoft mobile device. Coding in C# and Visual Studio is by far the nicest coding experience I've come across in the 15 or so years I've been programming.
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tags: xna
Aug 18 2010 12:44 PM
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Giving up on Google Buzz (and why)

First off, let me get this out of the way before you get the wrong impression of me... I HATE TWITTER. It's always down, it's full of spambots, and 140 characters is just too short. If I find myself going back to shorten words to fit like an SMS, then
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tags: google buzz
Aug 17 2010 09:53 AM
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Breeze - Xbox LIVE Indie Game

Rob Hutchinson, a talented programmer I used to work, from nullcity.com with has just release a game called Breeze on the Xbox LIVE Indie Marketplace. It was built using Kitae, his 2D XNA Game Engine. I'm really impressed with how this game turned out,
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tags: xna
Aug 16 2010 08:09 AM
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XNA Games Competition @ Work

With the iPhone app I've been working on nearing completion, and Windows Phone 7 + XNA 4.0 in sight, I recently decided to get back into game creation. I've previously released a game on Xbox LIVE Indie Games, Jungle Blocks, but it wasn't very good,
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tags: xna
Aug 12 2010 10:34 AM
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giffgaff Earnings - July 2010

Those that follow me on twitter have probably noticed me talking about giffgaff a lot lately. This isn't just some scam to try and earn money - I really believe what giffgaff are doing is fantastic. They're bringing lower prices (and cash for referring
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tags: mobile phones
Aug 06 2010 03:20 AM
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Google Wave Notifier 1.9 Released

Version 1.9 of Google Wave Notifier is now available. Unfortunately I didn't get around to adding Google Apps support, because it's turning out to be more complicated than expected, but I'm still hoping to have it done soon. The new features in v1.9 are:
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tags: google wave notifier
Jul 30 2010 12:13 PM
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How to get Dirt Cheap O'Reilly Books (Legally) on any Device!

Over the last few years, I've picked up a few O'Reilly books on my iPhone from the App Store. It's not particularly fun reading on an iPhone screen (especially pre-iPhone4), but the books are crazy cheap. Like £3 cheap! I figured that the reason these
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tags: books
Jul 26 2010 10:38 AM
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giffgaff - Free Sim Card with £5 Credit

Since posting about giffgaff, I've had quite a lot of emails request sim cards. I decided to make the process a little easier by adding a form to the page. If you're like a giffgaff sim card with £5 free credit (which you can only get by being referred
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tags: mobile phones
Jul 14 2010 12:52 PM
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giffgaff - Owned by O2, Using O2's Network, but Far Cheaper!

When my 18 month iPhone contract on O2 recently came to an end, I was surprised to find that moving to O2 PAYG was far cheaper than moving to their simplicity tariff. Additionally, the simplicity tariff was a 12 month contract unless you paid an extra
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tags: mobile phones
Jul 12 2010 03:22 AM
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More Lovefilm Hilarity

I recently blogged about the epic saga when I tried to change my email address with Lovefilm. It resulted in me closing my account (for security reasons, not out of spite!). As the adventure ended, I had another few emails from Lovefilm that I thought I
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tags: email
Jul 11 2010 02:36 AM
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Lovefilm - Massive Customer Service Failure

At the start of this year, I posted that I had decided to abandon my old ".me.uk" domain in favour of tuppeny.com and dantup.com. It's been a long, painful process updating my email address with all the companies I have accounts with. However, none of
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tags: domains
Jul 09 2010 08:14 AM
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Blizzard Email Fail - Solved!

I recently posted about some failure in changing my email address on various big-name websites. One of those, was Blizzard's Battle.net system, used to login to Blizzard games such as World Of Warcraft. The problem was that an error was occuring, but the
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tags: games
Jun 30 2010 12:44 PM
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For Sale - iPhone 3G 8GB Black, Boxed :-)

I'm aware I haven't been blogged much (at all!) lately. It's something I'd like to address, but life has been busy in many different ways. For now, I'll take this opportunity to spam you with an eBay auction for my old iPhone :-P iPhone 3G 8GB Black
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tags: iphone
Jun 29 2010 02:29 AM
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Email Fail: Microsoft, Blizzard, Facebook and more

A few months back, I blogged about changing domains and over the last few months I've been slowly updating email addresses at all the sites I have accounts for to a new domain. Rather than using a catchall this time, I decided to go with plus addressing.
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May 04 2010 02:40 PM
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Is Google Code Readying Git Support?

It looks like Google Code could be working on adding Git support (at last)! I've been following the native Git support issue in the issue tracker and some interesting comments have appeared today: (8) sussman: Tell you what... as soon as git can do HTTP
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Mar 26 2010 12:25 PM
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Is Google Code Readying Git Support?

It looks like Google Code could be working on adding Git support (at last)! I've been following the native Git support issue in the issue tracker and some interesting comments have appeared today: (8) sussman: Tell you what... as soon as git can do HTTP
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tags: google code
Mar 19 2010 09:04 PM
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(Solved) Intermittent Server."CreateObject Failed" 'ASP 0177 : 8000ffff' Error Creating .NET COM Components

Over the past year or so we've been wrestling with an intermittent error from classic ASP when trying to instantiate .NET components with Server.CreateObject. Everything works fine 90% of the time, and now and then we'll start seeing this error: Server
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Mar 19 2010 05:59 AM
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(Solved) Intermittent Server."CreateObject Failed" 'ASP 0177 : 8000ffff' Error Creating .NET COM Components

Over the past year or so we've been wrestling with an intermittent error from classic ASP when trying to instantiate .NET components with Server.CreateObject. Everything works fine 90% of the time, and now and then we'll start seeing this error: Server
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tags: .net
Mar 14 2010 11:52 PM
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Wanted: Artist for iPhone Game

I posted this on Buzz, but thought it worth also repeating here. I'm working on a few iPhone games, but I'm no good when it comes to graphics. I'm looking for someone that might be able to do the graphics for me. One of the games involves a penguin with
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tags: iphone
Mar 10 2010 11:22 PM
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Wanted: Artist for iPhone Game

I posted this on Buzz, but thought it worth also repeating here. I'm working on a few iPhone games, but I'm no good when it comes to graphics. I'm looking for someone that might be able to do the graphics for me. One of the games involves a penguin with
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tags: iphone
Mar 10 2010 03:18 AM
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Google Buzz - What's it all About?

Like every man and his dog, I've been playing around with Google Buzz the last few days. So far it's looking quite good. It's not entirely accurate to call it a Twitter clone, but it certainly works in a very similar way. If you'd like to have your blog
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tags: google buzz
Feb 15 2010 01:51 AM
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Google Buzz - What's it all About?

Like every man and his dog, I've been playing around with Google Buzz the last few days. So far it's looking quite good. It's not entirely accurate to call it a Twitter clone, but it certainly works in a very similar way. If you'd like to have your blog
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tags: google buzz
Feb 12 2010 03:25 AM
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World of Warcraft Addon Updaters - What Do You Use and Why?

This post is for the World of Warcraft players among you. More specifically, those that use Addons. I'm interested in whether you use an addon updater (that is, software to keep your addons up-to-date). If so, which one, and what you do and don't like
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tags: mmos
Jan 29 2010 02:33 AM
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World of Warcraft Addon Updaters - What Do You Use and Why?

This post is for the World of Warcraft players among you. More specifically, those that use Addons. I'm interested in whether you use an addon updater (that is, software to keep your addons up-to-date). If so, which one, and what you do and don't like
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tags: mmos
Jan 29 2010 01:51 AM
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Open Sourcing Google Wave Notifier

Yesterday I finally got around to do something I've been planning on doing for a number of weeks. I uploaded Google Wave Notifier to Google Code. From today, Google Wave Notifier is Open Source! In hindsight, I should have done this much sooner. The app
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tags: google wave notifier
Jan 26 2010 02:05 PM
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Open Sourcing Google Wave Notifier

Yesterday I finally got around to do something I've been planning on doing for a number of weeks. I uploaded Google Wave Notifier to Google Code. From today, Google Wave Notifier is Open Source! In hindsight, I should have done this much sooner. The app
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tags: google wave notifier
Jan 22 2010 10:14 PM
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Generic 301 Redirection Script for Google App Engine

Although this post is about writing a redirect script for App Engine, it doesn't require that any of the sites are hosted on App Engine, so it could be useful to you even if you're hosting .NET websites elsewhere, but need to handle redirecting old
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tags: google app engine
Jan 17 2010 03:32 PM
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Generic 301 Redirection Script for Google App Engine

Although this post is about writing a redirect script for App Engine, it doesn't require that any of the sites are hosted on App Engine, so it could be useful to you even if you're hosting .NET websites elsewhere, but need to handle redirecting old
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tags: google app engine
Jan 17 2010 03:32 PM
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Google App Engine Benchmarks - db.put() Performance

Over the past few weeks as I've been using Google App Engine, I've come across people requesting benchmarks so they can compare App Engine performance to other solutions before they try it out. I don't really think comparing Google App Engine and it's
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tags: google app engine
Jan 17 2010 12:53 AM
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Google App Engine Benchmarks - db.put() Performance

Over the past few weeks as I've been using Google App Engine, I've come across people requesting benchmarks so they can compare App Engine performance to other solutions before they try it out. I don't really think comparing Google App Engine and it's
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tags: google app engine
Jan 17 2010 12:53 AM
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Profiling Google App Engine with Appstats

As mentioned in my previous post, I've been keeping an eye on my logs after putting this blog live on App Engine. One thing that wasn't so easy to do with App Engine was monitor the datastore calls being made (like I would with Microsoft's SQL Server
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tags: google app engine
Jan 09 2010 05:16 PM
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Profiling Google App Engine with Appstats

As mentioned in my previous post, I've been keeping an eye on my logs after putting this blog live on App Engine. One thing that wasn't so easy to do with App Engine was monitor the datastore calls being made (like I would with Microsoft's SQL Server
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tags: google app engine
Jan 09 2010 05:16 PM
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New Domain - DanTup.com - Please Update Your Links!

After much discussion and debate, I've decided to move all of my sites from the dantup.me.uk domain to dantup.com. The .me.uk domain came free with some hosting and was never really intended to become my "main" domain, but it did. It looked like Google
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tags: google wave notifier
Jan 09 2010 04:54 PM
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New Domain - DanTup.com - Please Update Your Links!

After much discussion and debate, I've decided to move all of my sites from the dantup.me.uk domain to dantup.com. The .me.uk domain came free with some hosting and was never really intended to become my "main" domain, but it did. It looked like Google
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tags: google wave notifier
Jan 09 2010 04:54 PM
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Entity Groups, Contention and Transactions in Google App Engine

When I started learning Google App Engine, I misunderstood a fairly fundamental part of the datastore - Entity Groups. The documentation is not very clear, and over the weeks I've seen many questions asked in videos and forums that suggest I'm not the
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tags: google app engine
Jan 06 2010 09:46 PM
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Entity Groups, Contention and Transactions in Google App Engine

When I started learning Google App Engine, I misunderstood a fairly fundamental part of the datastore - Entity Groups. The documentation is not very clear, and over the weeks I've seen many questions asked in videos and forums that suggest I'm not the
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tags: google app engine
Jan 06 2010 09:46 PM
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Caching App Engine Datastore Results in Memcache

Since moving my blog to Google App Engine a few days ago, I've been keeping a close eye on the logs. This is my first app engine project that's using the datastore, so I wanted to make sure I hadn't done anything silly and I wasn't getting a large number
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tags: google app engine
Jan 02 2010 02:40 AM
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Caching App Engine Datastore Results in Memcache

Since moving my blog to Google App Engine a few days ago, I've been keeping a close eye on the logs. This is my first app engine project that's using the datastore, so I wanted to make sure I hadn't done anything silly and I wasn't getting a large number
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tags: google app engine
Jan 02 2010 02:40 AM