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Author Archives: Angus Hardie
Macbook Wheel (by the Onion)
The Onion on a new Mac … 🙂 They got that Mac tradeshow look so perfectly too.
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SQLEditor 1.4.3b3
So, it’s coming up to the holidays, but there is time for another SQLEditor release. 1.4.3b3 (snappy numbering, yes?) is pretty much a bug fix release. I think that the index creation problems that were happening have now been fixed, … Continue reading
iPhone Shuffle?
The iPhone Shuffle, (Advert 1) (Advert 2) (Advert 3) 🙂 Plus the obligatory Wired.com article (a bit more serious though)
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Adam Savage, Dodos and the Maltese Falcon
I just happened to watch this amazing presentation by Adam Savage (of Mythbusters) Adam Savage on Obsession (Fora.tv)
MySQL before 4.1?
This graph appears to show that most people polled (97%) are using MySQL 4.1 or later This second poll shows, again, that most people (89%) are using 4.1 or later. The thread at the PunBB forum gives 95% of people polled … Continue reading
Zend Framework – run in a subdirectory
This article explains how to use Zend Framework MVC in a subdirectory (rather than in the DocumentRoot) [Link]
Zend framework Quickstart and SQLite
I was building the Zend Framework quick start tutorial example but I kept getting the following error: Message: SQLSTATE[HY000]: General error: 14 unable to open database file This was despite the fact that I had correct privileges on the database … Continue reading
Is there a pilot on board?
In movies like Airplane! the pilots have all been incapacitated and a desperate call goes around “is there a pilot on board?” To which some brave soul then stands up and says something like, “Yes I can fly the plane”. … Continue reading
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SQLEditor updates
I’ve just released a new version of SQLEditor yesterday, mainly as a bug fix release, but it’s definitely recommended to upgrade. The new beta is 1.4.3b1 which was released 14th November. It fixes a number of bugs, including MySQL comments … Continue reading
Django Support
Several people have now asked for this, so it’s being really seriously looked at. Plus I’m hopeful that it will be able to support the somewhat different but quite similar Google app engine model class format too Having been working … Continue reading
Loyalty Cards
I was looking at my wallet and I realized that I have a whole collection of loyalty cards. Am I really loyal to all of them? I don’t think I can be, since some of them are for direct competitors.
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Cinema Audio
A Fascinating Video with Ioan Allen of Dolby Labs talking about different kinds of Film audio system.
Is the iPhone NDA still in effect?
This post from yesterday on the cocoa-dev list seems to suggest that it is. I wonder what is happening? (Although it doesn’t affect me much because I’m still not doing iPhone development at all yet)
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XCode function popup
I love the XCode function popup, particularly in Objective C, because I can add #pragma mark comments to divide up the list. Unfortunately languages that aren’t C derived don’t offer #pragma, so I missed these little dividers Then I noticed … Continue reading
SQLEditor releases
This is another quick update about SQLEditor releases in the near future. 1.4.2b1 Currently version 1.4.2b1 is in beta release, it offers a few specific improvements Added support for editing MySQL character set and collation settings on fields and tables … Continue reading
National Lighthouse museum closed
I was sad to read that the National lighthouse museum in Penzance appears to have closed. It was an interesting place to visit and it had lots of real exhibits including light house lamps, optics and models. It was also … Continue reading
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UCS-2 vs UTF-16
Since I got confused by this one the other day: http://unicode.org/faq/basic_q.html#14 Q: What is the difference between UCS-2 and UTF-16? A: UCS-2 is what a Unicode implementation was up to Unicode 1.1, before surrogate code points and UTF-16 were added … Continue reading
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Google Chrome Comic
The Google Chrome comic is a work of art, it’s both functional and artistic, and it manages to explain so many really important points in a way that is easy to understand. If you haven’t read it, and you’re interested … Continue reading
Cappuccino Framework released
The people at 280 North have released the The Cappuccino framework as open source. The Cappuccino framework is the system that powers the 280 slides web app, which is sort of Keynote in a browser. I’ve been playing around with … Continue reading
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Automatically creating book cover designs
This is a remarkable article describing how Faber & Faber (the publishers) are using a series of graphical parts and some custom software to automatically generate book covers for their new series of out of print works. It works by … Continue reading
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