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Xerox WorkCentre 3615DN Printer PPD file

I recently took charge of a rather nifty printer – the Xerox WorkCentre 3615DN. As we’ve been migrating to Ubuntu 14.04 I needed Linux drivers for it. The Xerox drivers do not work and the PPD file on their support

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Free Music Courtesy of Frank Ryans and Left, Right and Centre

Every Thursday in Frank Ryan’s Bar of Queen Street, 5 Queen Street, Smithfield, Tadhg hosts a cracking blues band with some of Ireland’s best known session musicians – Noel Bridgeman, Ed Deane, Trevor Knight and John Quearney. We did the

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Tina MVC: 0.2 release and 0.3 development branch

Stable version 0.2. This is a roll-up of recent fixes and enhancements. At this stage all development is on the 0.3 branch. Unless bugs appear before I’m ready with 0.3, there will be no further releases prior to 0.3. Get

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Westmoreland College

WestmorelandCollege.ie Largely a brochure web site with some customisations. This is the first real outing for Tina MVC (our in-house WordPress plugin framework). WordPress manages all content and templating, making ongoing maintenance a breeze. Customisations are coded using Tina MVC:

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Eircom WEP Cracker is Back by Popular Demand

In October 2007 Electric News reported that a vulnerability had been discovered with Eircom supplied DSL modem/routers. This was based on some clever investigative work by Kevin Devine in September of that year. It allowed an attacker to deduce the

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Born To Run Ash

BornToRunAsh.comborn-to-run-ash.com Ash is a runner, cyclist and general fitness freak who wins the Death Valley Marathon and runs extreme 70km marathons around Connemmara in his spare time. His web site (built on WordPress) is a simple enough visual affair –

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Tina MVC 0.1.10

Update: 2010-05-06: Ouch – a hurried commit introduced a rather embarrassing bug. It has been fixed and an update has been uploaded as version 0.11. This update contains a roll-up of various enhancements to the core: removal of the PHP

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Tina MVC 0.1.8 upgrade

All seems well with the recent fixes, so I have bumped to version 0.1.8. Download from the Tina MVC plugin page on WordPress.org or download from SeeIT.org here.

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Tina MVC update to 0.1.7.5

There have been numerous updates to the framework over the past few weeks, mostly getting the various http redirects and user  login, registration and password reminder pages to play nicely with WordPress. It seems to be working fine now, but

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Tina MVC v0.1.7 released

This update: Minor bugfix: in tina_mvc_functions.php, tina_mvc_make_controller_url() was creating an incorrect url for absolute controller paths. Trivial bugfix: In one of the sample apps, index_view.php was using the wrong function to create some links to sample apps. Important: When you

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