Category Archives: Research

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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Statistics

Posted on January 20, 2012 by Andrew

Borrowing from Alex King’s Simple SQL Queries for Blog Stats, here’s some stats on this blog. The first post “It’s alive!” was made on 31st May 2003, some nine years ago. There have been 1,572 posts. On average, there are … Continue reading →

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FOSDEM 2011: Sunday

Posted on January 13, 2012 by Andrew

In advance of FOSDEM 2012, I’m publishing previous years’ notes. Here’s 2011 day two: Sunday. Barebox Reason for attending this talk: to understand more of the technical details behind fast boot of Linux devices, which will be an important factor … Continue reading →

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FOSDEM 2011: Saturday

Posted on January 11, 2012 by Andrew

In advance of FOSDEM 2012, I’m publishing previous years’ notes. Here’s 2011 day one: Saturday. FOSDEM is the Free and Open Source Software Developers’ European Meeting, an annual free event hosted in Brussels and entirely organised and run by volunteers. … Continue reading →

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Getting started with Tizen

Posted on January 11, 2012 by Andrew

The Tizen source and SDK were unleashed yesterday, and I’ve just had a first glance. The documentation is a bit all over the place, so here’s some notes on getting up and running. For more information on what’s going on with … Continue reading →

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FOSDEM 2010

Posted on January 10, 2012 by Andrew

Although I’ve been a regular at FOSDEM for a few years now, I’ve been rather poor in ensuring my notes got onto this blog. In advance of FOSDEM 2012, I’m publishing previous years’ notes. Here’s 2010. The Free and Open … Continue reading →

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Google ♥ Mozilla

Posted on December 25, 2011 by Andrew

Gruber considers the relationship between Mozilla and Google really weird. MG Siegler suggests that it’s in part due to a bidding war, and in part because of anti-trust concerns based on a tweet from David Ulevitch. I’m sure both those hypotheses are true, … Continue reading →

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Save UEA Music

Posted on November 3, 2011 by Andrew

As an alumnus of the University of East Anglia (in Computing), I was shocked to hear that UEA are closing the School of Music. As an Honorary Research Fellow of the School of Music, who saw first-hand some of the … Continue reading →

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At what price to community?

Posted on October 9, 2011 by Andrew

Dave has written a detailed post on the types of community that Tizen hopes to target. It’s great, and I recommend you read it through. For more background, you should also read my blog post on what’s really going on … Continue reading →

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