Building the NPPL Pilot logbook: Idea to launch

Those of you who know me from my work on Elgg or building the platform powering Latakoo are possibly not aware that I also write application software. Not as much as I’d like, the lure of web services and the long tail is seductive, but while web services solve some problems they create others. In […]

Marcus Povey

Those of you who know me from my work on Elgg or building the platform powering Latakoo are possibly not aware that I also write application software. Not as much as I’d like, the lure of web services and the long tail is seductive, but while web services solve some problems they create others. In […]

Introducing the Simple Registration Key generator

Over on Github I’ve open sourced a little library for generating and verifying product registration keys. I needed this for a couple of my projects, and I’ve made it available with hopes of saving anyone else from having to write one! The tool takes a someone’s name and a salt (which is your product id […]

Marcus Povey

Over on Github I’ve open sourced a little library for generating and verifying product registration keys. I needed this for a couple of my projects, and I’ve made it available with hopes of saving anyone else from having to write one! The tool takes a someone’s name and a salt (which is your product id […]

Introducing the Simple Download Manager

The Simple Download Manager is another itch scratch to open source software project tale, basically I needed a simple way to serve files for download and keep some statistics. So, like a good open source citizen I’ve made it available under the GPL, hopefully it’ll save someone some time! Usage is very simple; clone the […]

Marcus Povey

The Simple Download Manager is another itch scratch to open source software project tale, basically I needed a simple way to serve files for download and keep some statistics. So, like a good open source citizen I’ve made it available under the GPL, hopefully it’ll save someone some time! Usage is very simple; clone the […]