Tiernans Comms Closet

So, today at the Mobile World Congress, Microsoft unvailed the Windows Phone Series 7. This is the next generation of Windows Phone devices. So, some quick links and some screen shots from around the web:

There is a hands on Demo over at Channel 9 of the Windows Phone 7 Series.  the OS is VERY SWEET! [...]

So, i have been looking at Data De-Duplication, and have built a little demo app in C# for this idea… The code is on GitHub and if you have better ideas around the code, please leave comments or update the block.
This code is not intended for Production use. it is purely experimental!
One idea i [...]

In yesterday’s Budget, the Irish government added a EUR15 per tonn of CO2 tax to companies… Some quick maths!
burning a Liter of Petrol produces 2.39KG of CO2 Per Liter burned. diesel = 2.62KG / L
that means for Petrol, you would need to burn 418.4 L to produce a Tonn of CO2 (381.6 for [...]

Today i would like to announce the release of Torrent Helper, a website i started coding about 19 hours ago (as of time of writing this post at 6pm on Satrday). The coding of this project started at 11PM on Friday, and took a short break at 6am for some sleep… It was officially released (with [...]

A Few days ago on the Jungle Disk blog, it was announced they would be releasing a BETA of their new product: Jungle Disk Server. This sounded very interesting, and one of the more interesting features that was added was De-Duplication…. let me try explain with a bit of detail…
I am backing up my SVN [...]

So, i have been thinking about building a ZFS powered SAN, and today i started thinking about using USB keys and drives… Why? SATA controllers with more than 4 ports are not cheap!
So, the way i was thinking was as follows (If anyone knows about ZFS and SANs, tell me if this is completely off [...]

installed the Wibiya toolbar to the bottom of the page… what do you think? Like? dislike? comments welcome.

a couple of days ago, i was browsing Programmable Web under their SMS keyword, and was thinking about how interesting it would be to get an app (web app or service) to listen to SMS messages and maybe even reply. and then it came to me: why SMS? Why not Twitter?
Twitter has a nice API [...]

After nearly 3 years of service, my Mac Pro has left the building… well, not literally, it’s still on the desk, but it won’t boot no more… RIP my old (but sometimes annoying friend)…
Since the machine is now dead, i have started to look at my next workstation… which i hope to have running by [...]

Congrads to the Windows Teams who have RTMed both Win 7 and Win2k8R2 today! should be available on the MSDN by August 6th and more info about when you can get it is here. cant wait to get my hands on this! Congradulations to all envolved!