Donald Jackson

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Posts by Donald Jackson

How to motivate software developers

2010/07/05 - 9:18 am

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Posted in Business, General, Work | 1 comment

I was thinking the other day about the importance of quality software architecture and about how the planning of such software architecture can fundamentally affect the success of a business. Indeed, the benefits of adequate planning are painfully obvious to those who have worked on projects- both badly planned and well planned ones. The following [...]

Birthday Wishlist 2010

2010/05/19 - 9:17 pm

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Posted in General, Life, Uncategorized | No comments

Yes ladies and gentlemen it’s time for my annual Birthday wish list for all you thousands of would-be gift buyers out there. Apparently I’m nearly impossible to buy gifts for, so instead of getting 50 pairs of socks, I use this list… As always I will break it up into 3 categories to fit your [...]

What should be the next game in the ‘Hero’ series?

2010/03/05 - 10:14 am

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Posted in Life, Lightbulbs | 1 comment

I posted a question on Twitter this morning about Violin Hero (being a former violinist myself this seemed obvious) and I had some other suggestions, so I wanted to check the opinion of the general public on what the next ‘Hero’ game should be. Let’s see how the results turn out. What should be the [...]

Outraged – An Open Letter to Mr Delivery

2010/01/03 - 10:49 am

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Posted in Life, Vents | 24 comments

I would like to add comment here but I think the letter says it all, we received the worst possible service from Mr Delivery last night and I simply cannot keep quiet about it. Here is an ‘Open Letter’ to Mr Delivery below. TO whom it may concern, We placed an order this evening (the [...]

The Christmas Presents

2009/12/28 - 11:08 am

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So admittedly I have been one of the most useless blogger’s around over the past year. It has been an intense year after going it alone business wise. Now that the dust has settled on an amazing 2009 I have given myself some Christmas presents. My blogging frequency is largely to blame on the hate [...]

Kannel presentation to GeekDinner

2009/10/03 - 5:49 pm

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Posted in Business, C, Kannel, Mobile, Work | 1 comment

Apologies for the delay as I promised to have this up the day after GeekDinner Thanks to all those involved with organizing these events, they are really enjoyed by all. Thanks to the sponsors Delheim for providing the wine for the event. Anyway, without further ado here is the presentation I gave on Kannel at [...]

Kannel for Windows – Some Cygwin Binaries

2009/04/08 - 3:56 pm

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Posted in Business, C, General, Kannel, Mobile, Work | 9 comments

A customer of mine recently asked me for a windows version of Kannel. Prior to this I had no experience with Cygwin/Windows development at all. It was actually extremely simple to build Kannel using Cygwin (thanks to the Kannel developers for being, well, pretty cool ). Obviously it’s not the easiest thing in the world [...]

Extracting meta-data from SMPP TLV’s with Kannel

2009/03/15 - 1:18 pm

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Posted in Business, C, General, Kannel, Linux, Mobile, PHP, Work | 2 comments

I have been relatively quiet the past few weeks with various operations going on, but seeing as I have a few minutes to spare I thought I would do a quick post explaining how to extract SMPP TLV’s using the new Kannel meta data features which are in the current CVS branch. These are scheduled [...]

Send SMS using Java Midlet/J2ME and Clickatell

2009/01/23 - 5:31 pm

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Posted in General, Lightbulbs, Mobile, Work | 1 comment

I have had some time to experiment with J2ME which is something I’ve always wanted the time to do. So during the course of this week (maybe a few hours total) I have put together my first Midlet. It’s a simple piece of software which allows you to send an SMS via the Clickatell SMS [...]

Kannel Web Configuration Tool v0.1 available

2009/01/05 - 1:04 pm

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Hi everyone, I have ‘released’ version 0.1 of the Kannel Web Configuration tool. I have created somewhat of a home page for it here for those who are interested. It is available as ‘donation-ware’ with full source code. Admittedly it was done in a hurry so hopefully later releases will see some code enhancements. I [...]

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