Monthly Archives: September 2012

Books 7

Posted on September 29, 2012 by Andrew

Two months on from the last list. Much time on trains has meant much time reading, hence the list is already long. Temeraire by Naomi Novik: a gunpowder mix of fantasy and historical epic. I was not convinced at first, … Continue reading →

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-09-29

Posted on September 29, 2012 by Andrew

@ozten done … https://t.co/RIlWJw1Q Struggling to reproduce; possibly a combination of new user and/or network issues? # @tomiahonen I think your gut is wrong. 3 big OS platforms in smartphones in 2015 will be iOS, Android, & Windows. B2G, Tizen … Continue reading →

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Scala sbt

Posted on September 29, 2012 by Andrew

If you’re following the Coursera Scala course, you may come across this problem during the example assignment: cd example sbt > console [error] java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: PermGen space (Lots of [info] stuff omitted for readability.) The nicest way I found to … Continue reading →

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What HP did next

Posted on September 28, 2012 by Andrew

The always awesome Terence Eden writes about HP’s smartphone conundrum; he makes some excellent points and I recommend you go and read it. Read it now. It’s okay, I’ll wait. Ok, welcome back. There are a couple of things I’d … Continue reading →

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Mobile platforms in 2015

Posted on September 28, 2012 by Andrew

Tomi Ahonen made a bold prediction of the top three mobile platforms in 2015: Android, Tizen, and iOS in that order. I disagreed, and made my own prediction: 140 characters were not enough to cover this, so here are some … Continue reading →

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Firefox OS build on Mac OS X Mountain Lion

Posted on September 23, 2012 by Andrew

I’m trying to get Firefox OS built on Mac OS X Mountain Lion. It’s not going too well! I checked out the code and ran ./config.sh emulator, then I ran ./build.sh and waited. After a while, I got:  25 52.4M   25 … Continue reading →

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gcc and homebrew on Mountain Lion

Posted on September 22, 2012 by Andrew

I’m trying to get B2G built, and one of the steps on OS X is to install gcc (this install is all automated in the bootstrap script). I am on a (relatively) clean install of Mountain Lion. Unfortunately during the … Continue reading →

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-09-22

Posted on September 22, 2012 by Andrew

Dear Mozilla folks: Persona seems not to work in Safari. Creating new account, confirming email address both result in blank pages. # Powered by Twitter Tools

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NatWest iPhone App

Posted on September 21, 2012 by Andrew

It’s not a huge surprise that the iPhone app for NatWest users is a big user experience disaster. Never mind that during sign-up the bank asks you to submit your card number and security code, or that they ask you … Continue reading →

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-09-15

Posted on September 15, 2012 by Andrew

@RoyalMail thanks for not delivering my nephew's birthday card, sent via Special Delivery. I really appreciate you ignoring your SLAs. #fail # @danfooo doesn't macports go in /opt? http://t.co/3RoPZSXq followed by http://t.co/iism5hpY # @danfooo the sudo rm -rf bit *should* … Continue reading →

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