hi there!
I see you've stumbled on to my humble home on the net, Drive:Activated. My name's Sam, I'm an ambitious and driven uni student, residing in Melbourne, Australia, wanting to make my mark on our world. This is my site, which is mainly just my blog and some other bits. There's no definite theme to my blog, just anything that interests me, and currently that's web trends, startups, ideas and cool stuff. Check it out, leave me a comment, click on 'Who is this?' to find out more about me, or drop me a line by clicking on 'Let's Talk'. Hope you enjoy it!
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For the last few weeks I've been working on a project built with Adobe Flex on Adobe AIR . A quick rundown - Flex is Adobe's (well, Macromedia's really) solution to make building form-based apps in Flash (as opposed to animations) easier, and AIR is Adobe's way of expanding its influence...
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UPDATE (12/06/2008): Released new version - changed to a more reliable data source; should resolve any 'invalid character' errors. UPDATE (03/06/2008): The data source has undergone a server upgrade . Fingers crossed it will be more reliable. No changes are required on our end, although there...
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UPDATE (18/11/2008): I have added a download for the console app and code that adjusts the display brightness, as used by the gadget. What's this? Another Windows Vista gadget, that's what. It allows you to change your laptop's screen brightness with a click of the mouse from the sidebar...
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Between watching the two grand finals this weekend (boring matches, but awesome results for Victoria ), I managed to get some time to start poking around with Python , a programming language. And what better way to learn something than using it to tackle a pet peeve. So I wrote a python script that extracts...
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What is this? This python script downloads timetables (weekday, Saturday, Sunday) from Metlink for Melbourne's public transport system, and writes them out in an XML format. It was designed to be used with ADBTransit , a Pocket PC app for showing public transport timetables, so the XML schema was...
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What is this? Got one or more of these? Well unfortunately the Melbourne-based company behind the product, Project Labs , folded a while ago, so support has been lacking. In particularly, the software driving it isn't exactly the best. Luckily, an overseas company, Centurion-CD , has taken over the...
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What's new? There's the new design, upgraded platform, nice first-time visitor welcoming message, nicer dates, easier navigation (people can actually find my contact details now), comment email notification and more. No point repeating myself - check out this post, http://driveactivated.com/blog...
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The Microsoft Imagine Cup 2007 Australian Software Design Finals wrapped up last week, with a team called APA (Audio Programming Assistant) from the University of Canberra winning with an entry that allowed blind people to program and navigate the internet. There was also an 'Intelligent Gorillas' team...
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What is this? Ever been to a nursing home and see the trays with all the patients' tablets sorted out in to period and day? This program allows you to print Medico-Pak Cold Seal labels from Douglas Pharmaceuticals ( similar to this - download foil.pdf ). It works in tandem with PCA NU System's FRED Dispense...
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What is this? Drive:Activated is my personal website launched in December 2006. Basically the idea was that I could claim a small part of the net as my own and flood the net with my thoughts, ideas and occasionally useful stuff. There is also a project section designed to let people know what big things...