Category Archives: Software

Python based Paymo API

So I think I’ve written before about the cloud based time tracking software I use; Paymo, well I’ve been working on a project to improve the invoicing side of it. Paymo does produce invoices but I find they’re a little bland, and they currently don’t meet the requirements set out by the ATO, so I have to produce my own manually.

This being a time consuming process I thought I’d automate it, and combining another side project I figured why not use it as a chance to improve my Python and Django skills. So it was a very nice relief to find that someone has already written a Python based library to the Paymo API – http://scardine.github.com/paymo/. Although it shouldn’t really come a surprise, part of my deciding what coding language would be a good choice was finding out what kind of community support and adoption each language had. So I guess it’s really confirmation of some research and means I chose wisely; young Jedi.

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Adding x64 Printer Drivers to a Windows x32 install

Recently I had to do some hands on support I hadn’t done for a while, I had to add printer drivers to a print server. The challenge though (there’s always one) the clients were 64 bit Windows 7 and the server was 32 bit Windows 2003, so only had printer drivers for XP and other 32 bit clients.

“Client” Windows 2008 R2 x64 Standard edition

Start -> Administrative Tools – Print Management


Add the 32 bit print server









Must ensure the Driver Names are the same


Microsoft Exchange 2003 and Outlook Mobile Access

Microsoft has come a long way from the bad old days of Windows 95 and blue screens of death. Recently I had to add a new domain controller to a domain, rename that domain, create a new Exchange server and migrate all the users mailboxes to that new server. All in the space of a few days because the old hardware was crashing constantly and nobody was quite sure how long the hardware would last.

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