Pedestrian crosses road behind a truck and doesn’t even look for oncoming traffic – Wellington Street, Perth.

I’ve brought my quad out of storage, dusted it off and started to clock up some flight time.

Quad with the following config;

  • TBS Discovery (DJI F450 Arms) with Core installed.
  • DJI Naza Lite + GPS
  • 750kV Motor / ESC
  • Props: RCTimer Carbon 9×5 or Graupner 9×5
  • TBS 59 FPV Camera
  • ImmersionR...

With winter well and truly upon us its time to turning off the sprinklers. As usual Water Corp have put their winter ban in place –

Irrigation Caddy FTW

Turning them off with an irrigation caddy is quicker than finding the keys and walking out to your external box.

In my effort to learn and try new things out, I banged together a quick Rails Codename Generator App to generate codenames for the naming of projects or other prieces of work.

Next to no code cut. It’s a simple app allowing you to add either adjectives or nouns, then “randomly” combines a word f...

A quick and dirty db2 datafix to remove some dodgy characters that was causing our application to fail. Of course we also corrected the application to stop inserting these characters in the first place.

DB2 9.7.5

UPDATE devt.LOG 
set message = replace(message,TRIM(TRANSLATE(message, ' ', '(){}!;...