Interfacing the CurrentCost meter to your PC

Note: since this article was written, CurrentCost have started selling data cables via their eBay store.
The current craze at IBM Hursley involves the CurrentCost meter, a simple little gadget that measures power usage in your house. These are being discussed on IBM blogs everywhere, because while the device itself is very neat, it also […]

Visual Studio compiler woes

Recently, I’ve been working on getting one of our products compiled and tested on 64-bit Windows. In order to help with this, I’ve been given a nice, shiny, super-fast 64-bit machine running Windows XP Professional x64 Edition.
After getting the build working correctly on this machine, it was time to port over my changes to […]