Tuesday 26th May 2009 – 02:30
I discovered Campaignr, an open-source project for sampling data from the various sensors on a cellphone, including camera, microphone and GPS. I’m having some issues with it connecting to a wireless network. If anyone has any ideas, please get in touch via the contact page. I’m also looking into manipulating the files it produces manually. […]
Friday 15th May 2009 – 02:31
Justin Lloyd got in touch with me via Twitter, and pointed me to this post about his homemade SenseCam software. **Update**: Looks like Justin Lloyd has removed information about Sensecams so the link above has been removed.
Friday 8th May 2009 – 02:33
While investigating a way to distribute Flash content on a wider audience of mobile telephone handsets, I discoverd Skyfire. I was pleasantly surprised that it allows using a full Flash client. I suspect that it works as a thin client/server solution.
Saturday 4th April 2009 – 02:34
I used Pingdom to test the response time of an Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) instance and a DynDNS Spring Server. Both are virtual server offerings. DynDNS’s Spring Server was marginally faster in terms of ping response time. After using both for the past few months, I have found that the DynDNS Spring Server is […]
Wednesday 18th March 2009 – 02:38
That’s a shame, the Alexa Site Thumbnail service supplied through Alexa is closing down on June 12th 2009. It was useful for some projects.
Wednesday 4th February 2009 – 02:41
It is always a pleasant surprise to find a new version of some of the open-source libraries I use. Recent ones include: TCPDF — A PDF generation library FPDF — Another PDF generation library ADODB — A fantastic database abstraction layer for PHP PDFTK — A toolkit for performing PDF operations such as splitting, combining and watermarking
Tuesday 6th January 2009 – 02:42
Happy 2009 everyone! I plan to keep this weblog updated more frequently this year, mentioning anything interesting I’m doing, especially with technology and photography. I switched from using the Panosaurus panoramaic tripod head to a Nodal Ninja 3, and am having good results. I’m sure the Panosaurus is perfectly adequate, but I couldn’t for the […]
Sunday 3rd August 2008 – 02:43
So far, so good with the Zend Framework. It is proving to be a great timesaver, and great at separating models, views, and controllers. I’m also looking forward to the Adobe Message Format extension, to make superfast links to Adobe Flash and Flex, without the lengthly PEAR-SOAP process I go through at the moment.
Tuesday 29th July 2008 – 02:46
A quick tip for using the HTML Validator extension for Firefox to help debug XHTML Strict documents… use ‘Serial’ mode. So far it has found more than the default mode, and is a great timesaver compared with validating via the w3.org validator.
Tuesday 29th July 2008 – 02:45
This gets me every time! Add the STOP! Hammertime! Firefox extension and every time you press the stop button, MC Hammer will let you know.
Tuesday 29th July 2008 – 02:44
Nearly everyone must have seen the iPhone and iPod Touch’s mobile web browser and found it a great idea to get what they call ‘the real Internet’ on a mobile device. If you have a cellphone that is Java-compatible (the majority are), try out Opera Mini. I’ve had it for a few weeks on an […]
Saturday 26th July 2008 – 02:46
I’ve finished the first release of the new soundboards site! I made a similar project a few years ago, and thanks to various links around the Internet, I have been getting a steady 1000 unique visitors per day. Some of the benefits of this new version include the auto-resizing of Adobe Flex (so much easier and […]
Wednesday 23rd July 2008 – 02:47
In the past, I have been using TortoiseSVN to use Subversion with Adobe Flex after several failed attempts getting the Eclipse plug-in working(that works fine with plain Eclipse). Until now that is; it is working!
