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Neville Ridley-Smith

@nev

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Geek & Java/iPhone/iPad coder, science, micro-isvs, startups, web, ebay, AR, computer/board games, my wife & kids, reading scifi/fantasy, philosophy & Jesus

Sydney, Australia
Joined March 2007
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Neville Ridley-Smith
8 years
IntelliJ finally overtakes Eclipse in Zeroturnaround developer survey impressive considering pay vs free
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8 years
Immigration building and transport NSW building evacuated in Sydney. Lots of police. Not sure why
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10 years
http://t.co/yVdUKfpXbU is down - millions of programmers can't get anything done - results in lots of humorous twitter posts
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13 years
AppCode tip - type logm to insert an NSLog to display the method name. Also logv (then tab and var name) to log a variable @jetcidr
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Neville Ridley-Smith
8 years
So I updated to Windows 10 - were they *trying* to make it look ugly?
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Neville Ridley-Smith
10 years
RT: @georgeb3dr : The two states of every programmer. http://t.co/54YEsma1dc
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10 years
Rachel and I are going in the Gong ride! You can help us support people with MS by donating here: http://t.co/TKGoSMOEDm
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Neville Ridley-Smith
12 years
Super geeky: Experience the boot up sequence of various old Operating Systems http://t.co/KeDcxYr8
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Neville Ridley-Smith
13 years
A great article on procrastination http://bit.ly/jWE48W - in fact, just an awesome website in general
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10 years
RT: @SteveStreza : Interrupting a programmer. http://t.co/I2ME98qJIt
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10 years
An Annotated Guide to The Star Wars Portfolio by Ralph McQuarrie http://t.co/2sdDAicA9I
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Neville Ridley-Smith
11 years
@HelenSthamer @nat0381 @Lord_Of_Clunge @LFCNev Oh my wordy yes I get a lot of crap @ mentions - all sorts of stuff :)
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Neville Ridley-Smith
9 years
Spot the thing that was once worth thousands of dollars http://t.co/7myBW8LQ42
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Neville Ridley-Smith
12 years
Markerless AR demo is pretty awesome http://t.co/Iw3zmLCx
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Neville Ridley-Smith
11 years
@hrgardiner @rachelnevill @sarahnevill @CatNevill @lanagough lol - I'm not one of the nevs you're looking for
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Neville Ridley-Smith
9 years
After a zillion years, the Shannara series is actually coming to tv and looks decent http://t.co/wsqAdxxVJB
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Neville Ridley-Smith
13 years
Best SciFi and Fantasy novels of the last decade http://bit.ly/h20r40 I've got some reading to do!
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Neville Ridley-Smith
11 years
Show your kids this video! http://t.co/c3RR9CBdwB My daughters spent the afternoon coding. :)
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Neville Ridley-Smith
13 years
AppCode tip #2 - look in AppCode->Preferences...->Live Templates for more like alloc, each, for and syn @jetcidr
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Neville Ridley-Smith
17 years
says good morning to everyone
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Neville Ridley-Smith
11 years
@randyb thanks. Yes I think twitter's new security requirements have broken it - might be a while before I can fix it
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Neville Ridley-Smith
3 years
@trisha_gee Hey Trisha, can you check out my comment re Code With Me on your vid: What's New for Java Developers in IntelliJ IDEA 2021.1?
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Neville Ridley-Smith
13 years
Android OS fragmentation - ridiculous http://t.co/An6PaAo4
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Neville Ridley-Smith
15 years
kids started at the bush school today (wahroonga public school) - went very well
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Neville Ridley-Smith
15 years
Grrrr Commbank Netbank has been down for the last day - makes it hard to do my company BAS and PAYG... downside of no paper statements
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Neville Ridley-Smith
14 years
This is a nice friendly way of presenting statistics http://schooloscope.com/primary/125507
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Neville Ridley-Smith
15 years
@NickJAndTheA account was created Wed Oct 28 03:20:19 @NICKandtheAD account was created Wed Oct 28 23:39:01
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Neville Ridley-Smith
13 years
Ever wondered what sunscreen SPF numbers measure? Here's an infographic with a bunch of info http://bit.ly/qSoWl9
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Neville Ridley-Smith
10 years
@EastEndersWiki not at the moment - need to update to use new twitter api - can't promise a timeframe
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Neville Ridley-Smith
8 years
There are some testers here at work who have never heard of Space Invaders 8-| #whatthe ?
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Neville Ridley-Smith
17 years
Dreamworks - every movie in 3d starting 2009 - http://tinyurl.com/2ad2er
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Neville Ridley-Smith
8 years
Just tried the htc vive at cebitaus - wow - this is not the VR of old - res could be better but immersion is truly incredible
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Neville Ridley-Smith
6 years
@BitGrail Is the Lisk wallet deposit going to be available any time soon?
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Neville Ridley-Smith
10 years
Intro to the Wolfram Language http://t.co/LaBXI2n9hX the fun starts at 1:05 - *seriously* impressive
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Neville Ridley-Smith
15 years
Baby-ware for geeky parents - a stat sheet jump-suit! http://bit.ly/7DDQth
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Neville Ridley-Smith
10 years
A practical way to fight against child slavery - the Ethical Fashion Guide http://t.co/1JUk4IUCP1
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Neville Ridley-Smith
14 years
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Neville Ridley-Smith
15 years
Heh - Windows 7 gets a big thumbs up from Linus Torvalds http://bit.ly/K6HR4
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Neville Ridley-Smith
13 years
Star Wars Old Republic intro cinematic http://bit.ly/jkLZ5E awesome light-sabery goodness!
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Neville Ridley-Smith
12 years
Old school Sierra adventure games done in HTML+JS http://t.co/sYjWanPS
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4 years
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Neville Ridley-Smith
11 years
GPU accelerated Java http://t.co/t08upQieWK
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Neville Ridley-Smith
14 years
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Neville Ridley-Smith
9 years
@jamieriddell I'd consider selling my domains for the right offer
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Neville Ridley-Smith
11 years
@GreenEgg101 I need to update it to use the new twitter api - sorry, no time frame for when it will be done
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Neville Ridley-Smith
5 years
What I got up to on the weekend
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9 years
@6lrh9 I need to update it to use the new twitter api
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Neville Ridley-Smith
10 years
Interesting feature coming in IntelliJ 13.1 - multiple carets http://t.co/1hiR5Z32B0
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Neville Ridley-Smith
11 years
The green screen monitor emulation in the OpenEmulator Apple II emulator for OSX is just extraordinary http://t.co/6Uc5pgtyeO
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10 years
White peacock in our back yard!? http://t.co/5kIzbENJch
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Neville Ridley-Smith
3 years
@jeffwzimmerman @meghan1943 @Fortran @atifsiddiqui @ForNein @feedly One more thing. If I refresh the page, it's fine for whatever feed I'm looking at. And if I click on an individual feed, it's fine. But if I then click on a group of feeds, the problem starts happening and doesn't go away even for individual feeds
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Neville Ridley-Smith
14 years
C overtakes Java back to #1 language! What's happened to all those fancy new languages? http://bit.ly/ZQGbs
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Neville Ridley-Smith
10 years
"The ... estimate is a commitment to the ... and must be delivered by the agreed date." - I'm not sure you understand what estimate means...
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Neville Ridley-Smith
11 years
@continuants just back from europe - will look into it soon
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Neville Ridley-Smith
12 years
Discomfort - the feeling you have when you get a new windows pc and have to use IE8 to download Firefox or chrome
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Neville Ridley-Smith
12 years
@chrisbrogan my daughter was reading a #cyoa she found on my shelves and I saw a quote from a Chris Brogan, so I googled and sure enough...
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Neville Ridley-Smith
10 years
Playing Donkey Kong! http://t.co/qQIJiOJnYJ
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Neville Ridley-Smith
13 years
On the train - my carriage number was 8080...
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Neville Ridley-Smith
15 years
RT: @davecheong : Evolution of Pepsi and Coca-Cola logos - http://img507.imageshack.us/img507/8676/4586.jpg
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Neville Ridley-Smith
2 years
@herokustatus Currently the login screen is not loading
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Neville Ridley-Smith
15 years
Wilhelm Scream during Face Punch in New Moon = Win
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Neville Ridley-Smith
14 years
Love the new office at Campaign Monitor + why open plan offices suck - http://bit.ly/bWSrWf via @davecheong
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Neville Ridley-Smith
5 years
@CptHollingworth I'm just reading The Silmarillion for the first time and just came across the bit I remember you describing vividly to me at Upgrade Aus - "Aurë enteluva" @CptHollingworth !
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Neville Ridley-Smith
14 years
First screenshots of Spielberg's and Jackson's Tintin movie! http://bit.ly/aawFe5 http://bit.ly/bOgmDV http://bit.ly/d2MxtZ
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Neville Ridley-Smith
13 years
Head First iPhone and iPad Development is out - updated version of the HF iPhone book - highly recommended http://oreil.ly/qHlMsU
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Neville Ridley-Smith
11 years
Ooh, I must have been one of those 250,000 twitter accounts - got a password reset email
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Neville Ridley-Smith
13 years
Paul Allen on 60 Minutes - how he spends his billions, footage with Bill Gates, etc - fascinating http://bit.ly/ewsPDy via @prule
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Neville Ridley-Smith
8 years
Visualisation/Audiolisation of every top US song from the 50's to 2015
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Neville Ridley-Smith
9 years
New Tesla showroom and charging point in St Leonards http://t.co/ylQJmBt0dW
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13 years
Boba Fett walks into Mordor Star Wars LOTR mashup http://on.io9.com/knylAb - what took so long for someone to have this idea!
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Neville Ridley-Smith
3 years
@IndieGames_Muso @CptHollingworth That would be my daughter - she was very excited and showed me a screenshot of your zoom lecture!
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Neville Ridley-Smith
14 years
Autocorrect on iPhone often has funny results - http://damnyouautocorrect.com/
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Neville Ridley-Smith
12 years
Sometimes unicode still surprises me ⎝⏠⏝⏠⎠
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Neville Ridley-Smith
6 years
@ChildishNevino I'm pretty fond of it, problem is it gets @ mentioned in all sorts of random tweets
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Neville Ridley-Smith
15 years
RT @rdeal1 : Awesome Periodic Table As We See it in Real Life http://bit.ly/7wpb2w
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Neville Ridley-Smith
13 years
Steve Jobs' final words - his sister's eulogy http://t.co/Y4x1bsw8
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Neville Ridley-Smith
14 years
Hours in total spent creating Wikipedia vs hours spent per year watching tv in the US http://bit.ly/duSqW4
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Neville Ridley-Smith
11 years
Discourse - new forum software from makers of StackOverflow - could be good, given what they've done in the past http://t.co/VMpsCCpg
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13 years
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15 years
Huh - Trading Post goes online only - special final print edition this thursday Oct 29th http://tinyurl.com/yf5dy8d
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Neville Ridley-Smith
11 years
Ooh - new 'Harry Potter' film http://t.co/cq5ErmiqN0
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Neville Ridley-Smith
14 years
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15 years
it's only 35k of static html and css after all - added link to use google's jquery
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Neville Ridley-Smith
14 years
Star Wars Uncut - hilarious - probably good in small doses http://bit.ly/bTZmOk http://bit.ly/cuqQUj
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Neville Ridley-Smith
11 years
Party like it's 1985 and run Windows 1.01 in your browser http://t.co/MGQRJ1qbo1
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Neville Ridley-Smith
13 years
Awesome - Apple //c, //GS emulator for iPad http://bit.ly/fz6Rcz http://bit.ly/hHkqzq
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Neville Ridley-Smith
12 years
New Google project, kind of like TED talks http://t.co/Q0sZww9C - try Neal Stephenson's talk for starters
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Neville Ridley-Smith
3 years
@BirkholtzAdam If I ever add one, that's sure to go on it. I've spent many an hour on there! I got a mention in this entry:
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Neville Ridley-Smith
14 years
Nice - a bunch of ABC tv shows now available on youtube http://google-au.blogspot.com/2010/10/abc-launches-full-length-episodes-on.html
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Neville Ridley-Smith
14 years
A nice thing about buzz - no 140 character limit. Feels like I can breathe again...
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Neville Ridley-Smith
14 years
Realtime video overlaid on Bing's streetview - Ted talk #AR - http://bit.ly/9Jo1xX
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Neville Ridley-Smith
13 years
Awesome timeline of videogame history http://bit.ly/l3wJ87
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Neville Ridley-Smith
11 years
@hidgw I need to update it to use the new twitter api
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Neville Ridley-Smith
9 years
"Give a man a fire and he's warm for the day. But set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life." RIP Sir Terry Pratchett
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