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Matt Reid

Solo Entrepreneur | Lead Software Architect

For my latest CodeFish project, I needed to be able to upload files to dropbox from my SheevaPlug. This gave me the perfect opportunity to try my first bit of Python code. I found PythonDropboxUploader and decided to fork it on GitHub (my first time using git as well!). The...

I was recently questioned by Hannah Suppiah about writing code to calculate fibonacci numbers and it brought my uni days flooding back. As an illustrative tool and a quick bit of nostalgia, I wrote this simple JQuery example of the fibonacci tree. There 2 lines of JQuery needed to work...

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: ```...