Peter Allan Horsfield

The whole point of teams is to allow different specialties to complement one another and achieve the extraordinary, so it can only be a good thing to reduce the barriers between them. This article shows how to eliminate the interdependency between HTML design skills and XML processing. XML is being applied on all business fronts for internal and external data exchange, transcoding between domains, archival, and powering dynamic and sometimes real-time Web sites. Yet all this technological weaving ties together more than just data; there's also a human aspect. Engineers trade schemas and specifications between one another, and each engineer is expected to understand and be able to integrate those specifications. This, of course, is an accepted facet of our lives, but it belies a problem. As XML usage has grown ubiquitous, so has this web of dependency. First between ... (more)

Sager 9750, ICS953201 FSB overclocking

This article explains how to overclock the FSB on Clevo D900K derived models like the Alienware M7700, the Sager NP9750, and the Eurocom F-Bomb. This technique is NOT for the faint-of-heart. You will be playing around with the frequency generator on your motherboard. Frequency=Heat and Heat=Damage. Be careful. If you fry your electronics, I will [...] ... (more)

Arduino-based fan tachometer using IR, with video, code and schematics

In 2009 I uploaded a video to YouTube showing an Arduino measuring the rotational speed of a basic computer fan. It was one of a number of YouTube videos I did as I was studying for a Masters in Computer Science. This particular module was an embedded systems programming course, with a bit of electronics [...] ... (more)

Reimagining xeyes for HTML5

Many of you will know of xeyes, a cute little app that has been around for decades. The eyes follow you as you move your mouse around the screen. . I don’t know why I thought about it ( I have been setting up unix servers lately ), but I was inspired to do some [...] ... (more)

Alternate Blog by Peter

For non-technical posts such as book reviews and travel, please follow my LiveJournal Blog. Or visit my Flickr Photostream. ... (more)