Author Archives: Ross

Towards the end of the working day on Friday, Darragh casually mentioned that he was going to see “some guy called Ze Frank” at the Science Gallery in Trinity that evening. Immediately I was asking to tag along, because Ze is probably one of the funniest people I have ever encountered, online or off. Like […]

Directly stolen convention from Irish blogs that I assume stems from Damien Mulley‘s Fluffy Links, “DeveLinks” will attempt to be no more than a weekly list of interesting web development related links collected from Twitter, emails, and various social and news portals. There are other blogs for other randomly curious links, and my twitter feed, […]

Update: A better written article. Update 2: Alternate POV. Probably common knowledge at this stage, but Facebook has made a definite move towards taking over the “microblogosphere” of Twitter with the recent update to their newsfeed feature. I’ve never directly compared Twitter to the Facebook newsfeed, because I don’t see their usage as overlapping. Twitter, […]

What is up with Google search engine results for the last few months? I can’t be the only person who uses Google like this. If I’m looking for a URL for something I’m referencing in a blog post, or on Boards.ie, or on Twitter, I’ll run a quick Google search (knowing I’ll find the correctl […]

I watched a video today by Tom Raftery via his GreenMonk blog/ustream show, in which he was talking about the ramifications of smart grid technology. I’m sure I’ve heard of this stuff before considering it’s been in development for a while, but consciously this is new to me. In a nutshell, as I understand it, […]