April 2009
1 post
Moving. Again. I just can't help it. →
I just can’t seem to keep still, I’ve re-installed a blog back at the original place, and hopefully I’ll be blogging more there, and twittering less.
November 2008
1 post
2 tags
It's funny. Honest.
Of the many jokes that Estelle gets sent, this is the funniest we’ve had for a long while and I thought I’d share :)
Nicolas Sarkozy dîne avec la reine d’Angleterre. Soudain, il lui demande:
‘Votre Majesté, vous m’impressionnez, vous êtes toujours entourée de
Gens intelligents, comment faites-vous ?’
La reine lui répond: ‘C’est très...
September 2008
5 posts
Nearly ready for Pycon
I finally got my laptop ready last night, so I should be ready for a weekend of Python at PyCon UK. Really, really looking forward to learning some new stuff. Unfortunately I didn’t get a chance to check out PyObjc before I go, so I won’t have anything to really compare IronPython and PyQT to in terms of Python GUI toolkits - but I have spent a small amount of time with both of them...
Custom fixed size listbox items in IronPython in...
Just a reminder so I can remember how to draw fixed height custom listbox items. Syntax highlighting would be nice … ho hum.
class MyForm(Form):
def __init__(self):
self.listbox = ListBox( Location=... )
self.listbox.DrawMode = DrawMode.OwnerDrawFixed
self.listbox.ItemHeight = 80
self.listbox.DrawItem += self.drawListboxItem
# Add your items as...
La Machine
Off to see La Machine tonight, and probably again tomorrow afternoon whilst E is watching High School Musical. I couldn’t work out where it was going to be tomorrow, as it is apparently getting a bit temperamental so I’ve put together a quick map.
I managed to see the Sultan’s Elephant at les machines de l’ile when I was in Nantes last, and it was pretty impressive. We...
No news is good news
It has just suddenly dawned on me that PyCon UK is coming up fairly soon, so I’ve taken a bit of time to take a look at IronPython before Michael Foord’s tutorial on the 12th. Hopefully I’ll have some time to check out PyQt too before we go, and PyObjC just out of interest.
So far, and apart from the painful startup time, its looking good, pretty easy to write WinForm apps and...
July 2008
2 posts
Expert Systems
I’ve decided that trying to brush off the rust wrt Expert Systems, on a weekend when I’ve been taken out drinking (as a non-drinker it wasn’t a pleasant sight) is generally not a good idea.
More and more over recent weeks I’ve been thinking about ES again, and thought that after a break of a couple of years, maybe I should take another look, but maybe I should wait until...
June 2008
1 post
Starting on a new diet today - hopefully I can last out on this one long enough for it to make a difference.
May 2008
2 posts
What is FluidInfo?
Alright, I have no idea what FluidInfo is, but I’d really really like to know. I know what curiosity did to the cat, but all the same - can someone please tell me.
Why do I want to know?
We’re designing and building a distributed storage architecture for a new representation of information
Now, I can’t just not know.
Edit: I found out, but now I can’t tell you :P...
April 2008
3 posts
Unbinding C# projects from SVN
Update: Or you could, as Chris suggested, just use the SVN export command. Ahem :( That’ll teach me to slow down and look around in future…
I love SVN, but I hate that I have to clean up projects by removing the .svn folders before sending them to clients.
So, I wrote a little utility to do it for me in C#, and it is fairly basic - it walks through the folder structure underneath...
Now that I am back from France ...
…. Passion Fruit flavoured tic-tacs? Now when you see something like that you just have to, don’t you. And I did. Not so much passion fruit flavour as chemical flavour with a hint of passion fruit that stays stuck in your throat for about 45 minutes. I think I’ll stick with mint from now on.
If I went in for schadenfreude...
.. I’d probably get some sort of satisfaction from this. Luckily I don’t, and eagerly away the patch to fix it, but I am not holding my breath. ”Word documents generated by today’s version of Microsoft Office 2007 do not conform to the Office Open XML standard under development by the International Organization for Standardization”
March 2008
5 posts
“Postel really said ” in general, only a subset of a protocol is actually...”
– via Mark Crispin via Stu Charlton
Webkit/ACID3 and Mobile Safari
I love that the Webkit guys are making strides in trying to be the first to complete the ACID3 test, and I’ve no doubt they’ll do it - I just hope that nobody has forgotten about fixing the bugs in Mobile Safari. It’s been all love and joy for me for the past few weeks, but then I had 4 crashes in a row on the same day visiting sites I had visited before :(
“Why is there never enough time to do a job right, but always enough time to do...”
– Anecdotal
My brush with UK government software piracy.
I only mention this now, because it turns out it might be more prevalent than I thought - but worth mentioning because of the irony involved. So, last year I accidentally drove through a very badly signposted bus lane in the beautiful city of Bath - and then a few days letter I got a letter from the council there telling me I had to give them money. Fair enough, I made a mistake and get fined, so...
iPhone wifi with The Cloud
When I first heard I could use my iPhone wifi free on any of The Cloud hotspots, my first reaction was - great, but how do I find them. The answer? Users simply text “CLOUD” to 82085 to receive a message with their nearest Cloud hotspot. If they text “CLOUD” a second time, they will receive a map of the area, as well as a list of three other nearby Cloud hotspots.That might just come in useful.
February 2008
4 posts
Fez - Platform heaven →
The nicest spin (pun intended) I’ve seen on a platform game for ages. I have a horrible feeling this might necessitate my purchasing whatever console it is released on. If you like platform games, watch the video, you’ll like it.
“Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.”
– Oscar Wilde
Time for a change
I’ve recently discovered Tumblr, and I like it, so I’ve decided to move over to here and see how it goes. Changing the redirects on my hosting doesn’t seem to take, so it may well have to be a totally new fresh start - we’ll see (not that I expect anyone to read what I write, most of my posts are likely to be tips to remind myself of things). It’d be really cool if...