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I use Ant for more than just Java projects, including building my own website. So I have written an Ant task to generate an XML Sitemap and released the first version.

When developing for multiple platforms, its always the little things that catch you out.

Heres one example I found while developing gcal, a Command Line Interface to Google Calendar. On Unix (including Mac OS X shells) wildcard expansion is done by the shell, and then the expanded list of files is passed on to the program being run. On Windows, the shell doesn’t do any expansion, and it’s up to programs to do the expansion¹.

I have released version 1.120110 of gcal, a Command Line Interface to Google Calendar. It has the following enhancements:

I have just published WWW::XBoxLive, a new Perl module to get and parse an XBox Live Gamercard (i.e. http://gamercard.xbox.com/en-US/BrazenStraw3.card).

A couple of weeks ago I published gcal, a Command Line Interface to Google Calendar.

It’s quite simple. If you have a .ics file of events you want to import into your calendar, run the following:

Recently I decided to digitise all my DVD’s and add them to iTunes, so I can view them on my iPad and my (soon to be purchased) Apple TV. Getting the videos off a DVD is easy with Handbrake, but iTunes has no idea what video file I have just imported, and therefore just uses its filename as the title. Not great.

It’s not that I can’t learn the new “natural scrolling”. But I don’t just use a Mac, and I wan’t to scroll the same way on my Mac, Linux and Windows PC’s.

Last weekend I completed the 2011 London to Cambridge Bike Ride in roughly 4 hours 30 mins, including a half hour stop about half way. So I guess thats an average of 15 Mph while cycling, which is pretty good :-)

Not sure when this was happened, but Google has removed the Chrome bookmarks folder view from Google Docs.

My photo of Hay’s Galleria is going to be used in the sixteenth edition of our Schmap London Guide. See the photo below!