This is a quick post to announce the release of Bitcoin Helper 0.11. Bitcoin Helper 0.11 contains significantly better error handler than the initial release (0.1) and also makes the file-based caching of the JSON retrieved from bitcoincharts.com mandatory. Error Handling It can now handle internal issues with network communication to the data source and incorrect [...]

Over the past few months, I’ve gained quite an interest in the crypto-currency Bitcoin. Bitcoin is a new currency which has no physical form, but can be considered Internet cash. If you want more information on Bitcoin in general, take a look at the We Use Coins website, which has a great introductory video and [...]

Although this is old news, I should mention that Spotify is available for Linux natively. I’ve written about Spotify on Linux before, however this focused on how to get Spotify links working in Linux, when utilising the the Windows version of Spotify via Wine (a Windows compatibility layer for Linux). As of mid July last [...]

This is a report about what it will be like in ‘the future’, when we will be reading news from our computer. This is ‘newspapers by computer’. It is truly awesome to see how far we have come in terms of the Internet and networking computer communication. It is also slightly amusing to see how [...]

They are. Or at least, it can really help to assume they are. A short while ago, I read this from Alex Yumashev’s Jitbit blog: I just overheard this conversation between two developers at a co-working site: “I plan [on] creating a prototype for my new XXXX application, whatcha think it should be – a web-app, [...]

I’ve recently exchanged e-mails with a colleague regarding the storage of PHP sessions data in a MySQL database. To help anyone else interested in using database storage of PHP session information, I have paraphrased / rewritten the content of some of those e-mails below. One of the best ways to implement the database storage of PHP session [...]

After defeating the two greatest Jeopardy! champions of all time, the technology behind Watson will now be applied to some of the world’s most enticing challenges. Watch a breakdown of the match from Ken Jennings, Brad Rutter and the IBM team members as they look toward the future. Want more information? IBM’s Watson AI software

Watson is an artificial intelligence program developed by IBM designed to answer questions posed in natural language. Named after IBM’s founder, Thomas J. Watson, Watson is being developed as part of the DeepQA research project. The program runs on POWER7 processor-based systems. In 2011, Watson competed on the television quiz show Jeopardy! as a test [...]

Intelligence is a term describing a property of the mind including related abilities, such as the capacities for abstract thought, understanding, communication, reasoning, learning, learning from past experiences, planning, and problem solving. The Study of Intelligence Intelligence is most widely studied in humans, but is also observed in animals and plants. Artificial intelligence is the intelligence [...]

I’m a huge fan of reddit, the social bookmarking/community website found here. One of the features you have as a registered user is to save threads. I feel like a completely moron but I’d never been able to find out where these saved threads were listed until today, when I looked it up. Apparently I [...]