Robert Beal

Creating API Documentation

Posted on July 6, 2008 by Robert Beal

At Huddle we’ve recently been working on our API and came across the problem of writing documentation for the API.

Having looked at a number of solutions I came up with a simple solution using XML comments within C# and the XML generated by the project during compilation.
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At Huddle I’ve recently been involved with looking at the build setup that we have in place (also see my article Defining a development tree). This article explains how we have set up CruiseControl.Net and the lessons we have learnt along the way.
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Defining a Development Tree

Posted on May 10, 2008 by Robert Beal

Having a cleanly designed dev tree can be more important than many developers might at first think. Having looked at not only how I do things, but how Huddle structures their dev tree I decided to do some research into designing the perfect dev tree.

Converting AVI’s to SVI’s for the Samsung YP-P2

Posted on April 21, 2008 by Robert Beal

* If you are using Ubuntu Jaunty please read all the way through the article as there are updates at the bottom.

* For Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty), please read/use my latest updates to the YP-P2 action.

I watch quite a few movies on my Samsung YP-P2, so am always having to covert the AVI’s I currently have to SVI’s. An SVI is still an AVI, just a different extension name and a few key points, which include not having any b-frames, the video being 480×272 in resolution, and a few other things.

Anyway…I’m an Ubuntu (not Windows!) user so I firstly started encoding my videos using Avidemux. Which is an excellent an easy to use GUI for converting videos into whatever format/specifics you need. However, it’s still a pain to have to open it up, load a video, check all the settings etc…

Overclocking an Intel Core 2 Q6600

Posted on April 8, 2008 by Robert Beal

I upgraded my desktop pc recently. I bought a new CPU, motherboard, memory and graphics card. With Ubuntu in mind, I went for:

Intel Core 2 Q6600
MSI P35 Neo2
4Gb Corsair TwinX RAM
Gigabyte Silent nVidia 8600GT
Akasa Evo 120 CPU Cooler
Artic Silver 5 Thermal Paste

I overclocked my 2.4Ghz Q6600 to 3.2Ghz quite easily. This was done by setting the CPU multiplier to 8, and the FSB to 400Mhz (8×400 = 3.2Ghz). I left all the voltages at their lowest possible setting. I also set the memory multiplier to 1 so that the RAM runs at 800MHz. I have the CPU fan set at 50% so it’s near silent.