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Matt Reid

Solo Entrepreneur | Lead Software Architect

I came across this blog post about a site called compute4cash.com which pays you money to run a small program that uses your free GPU cycles to do calculations (using OpenCL). I looked up the whois for the site and read their FAQ and was left with some serious questions...

Although Git support is in heavy development, for those who cannot wait, check out the nbgit plugin which provides a few Git features to keep you happy until official support arrives. End short blog post Update 19/02/2011 Almost as soon as I wrote this post the second beta of netbeans...

Since I last posted on this I have read up a bit more about the “hacks” that I have been getting. I have also seen some requests from bots looking to use my server as a free proxy to other sites. The requests appear in the log as so: ```...

I recently needed to increment and decrement a number inside a textbox using jQuery and couldn’t find a decent solution online. I decided to create my own generic plugin so I can re-use it where ever I see fit. I have made the plugin as generic as possible so it...

I recently came across Cloud9 IDE, a web based code editor that allows editing of your code from anywhere via a web browser. The IDE uses node.js and html5 features to provide a fantastic user interface. I decided to give it a go on my (debian based) server, here is...