Category Archives: Planet

Government CloudStore

Posted on February 21, 2012 by Andrew

The Government launched their G-Cloud CloudStore for Cloud procurement of Cloud services on Sunday. The outlook is … cloudy. I applaud the increase in transparency that could be derived from listing vendors in a single searchable public online catalogue. But … Continue reading →

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Ripple

Posted on February 8, 2012 by Andrew

Here’s my experience using the Ripple emulator for BlackBerry WebWorks. There’s a bunch of awesome BlackBerry developers at the hackathon, but I’m determined to work this out without them walking me through it. After all, developers don’t normally have the … Continue reading →

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Creating a BlackBerry WebWorks app

Posted on February 6, 2012 by Andrew

Some notes on building my first WebWorks app. I figured the quickest way to get an app up and running would be to take the examples from BlackBerry. Working from https://github.com/blackberry/WebWorks-Samples/tree/master/UIExamples I first did a git clone, but then reading the … Continue reading →

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BlackBerry WebWorks

Posted on February 6, 2012 by Andrew

Based on today’s upcoming Hackathon I’m investigating WebWorks (not WebWorks (with annoying voice popup!) or WebWorks). These are rough, quick notes in the spirit of “publish early and often”. So far I’ve downloaded Ripple (the emulator), the smartphone and tablet SDK. … Continue reading →

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Predictive Text, part 2

Posted on February 2, 2012 by Andrew

Not even a month after my predictions for the year, and the first of them has failed. I said: No IPO for Facebook: This could go either way. My bet is it will be very late 2012 or early 2013 … Continue reading →

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Backlight

Posted on January 28, 2012 by Andrew

If you use a computer for any amount of time, you may find some backlighting for your computer screen is beneficial. I couldn’t find any medical research that says one way or another whether it’s a good thing or not, … Continue reading →

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Juice

Posted on January 27, 2012 by Andrew

This week has been a mini detox, with copious juices. Here’s the recipes for a couple of them, from Sainsbury’s magazine. These make enough for one glass. Throw the ingredients in a juicer, or apparently you can put them in … Continue reading →

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Tethered to o2

Posted on January 24, 2012 by Andrew

I’m on a train tomorrow, and thought it was a good opportunity to use my phone as a wifi hotspot. This works flawlessly with the Samsung Wave 3 (though the GUI to turn it on is a bit suboptimal). It … Continue reading →

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Out for delivery?

Posted on January 23, 2012 by Andrew

It feels like my Amazon order has been in transit for ages. It was dispatched over 40 years ago and I’m still waiting …

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Media and storage of the future

Posted on January 21, 2012 by Andrew

I just lost a hard disk. No big deal. My somewhat complicated home media setup is this: I have a Samsung TV plugged in to a first generation AppleTV. The AppleTV is connected to the network via wired ethernet to … Continue reading →

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