To fit in with my views on websites (only as dynamic as absolutely necessary), I have installed this plugin. Hopefully this will not cause too many problems.
Category: General
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Ebay Suspension
Weird thing happened today. I was checking my email and I saw a message from ebay stating that my account had been suspended. I assumed it was fake and went to visit ebay itself. But it seems real.
The whole business is odd. I have never bought or sold anything on ebay. I think I once made a few bids, but they were unsucessful. Who knows what’s happening. It doesn’t reassure me though about the ebay security system.
Perhaps more information will appear shortly.
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Pocket PC and Mac OS X
In a break from SQLEditor and other similar things I’ve been trying to connect my pocket pc to my macintosh.
After some experimentation I have sucessfully installed synce using instructions .
I have also got the pocket pc to connect to the internet from the cradle using a slightly modified ppp script (use proxyarp) and have Avantgo synchronisation from the desktop using agsync.I also have a new tool that handles detection of connections and disconnections on the device which I hope to make available shortly.
Unfortunately there are still some bugs, but excellent progress is being made.
I’ve also made some progress on mounting the device on the desktop using a modified webdav server. I can get read support, but I’m still working on write support.
More on this later…
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Walled City of Kowloon
Leynos posted a really interesting story about the Walled City of Kowloon.
It’s fascinating and I’ve been reading all the linked web pages …
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SQLEditor Cocoa B11a
Unfortunately there was a crashing bug in SQLEditor beta 11 and I had to release b11a.
It was one of these things were format strings caused the crash. I’d transposed two of the entries
[NSString stringWithFormat:@” %@ %d”,aDecimal,aString]
instead of
[NSString stringWithFormat:@” %@ %d”, aString, aDecimal]
and of course cocoa crashed, probably because it tried to send a message to the aDecimal variable.
It’s unfortunate that this can’t be detected at compile time, because it’s really annoying and very easy to do.
Possibly this could be caught in an exception handler of some kind though. I’ll have to do some more work on it.
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HP unveils paper-thin flexible screen technology – ZDNet UK News
HP unveils paper-thin flexible screen technology – ZDNet UK News
This is a really amazing development. There are some images too. The most impressive one is probably the first image which has been unplugged for two years!
They also demonstrate a color version which offers 125 colors at the moment.
The advantages of this technology are obvious, although it isn’t (yet) fast enough for digital video. It can be used to create clever signage, smart display panels for places like airports and railway stations. Intelligent motorway signs and many other things. It will allow lower cost and better display quality.
Think how much fun it could be in airports if a late passenger announcement also included a giant photo of the passenger holding up the flight. 🙂Maybe one day we might even have proper electronic paper. A unit as thin and light as real paper but with all of the qualities of a computer display.
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SQLEditor Cocoa B11 Released
Released SQLEditor Cocoa B11 today. Lots of new features included in this release.
I almost missed the release today actually because I found an unfortunate bug just before I was about to upload. It turned out that an object wasn’t correctly removed from the notification center list, which caused a crash when the application tried to clean up by sending messages to various objects (including one that had actually been deleted already). But I fixed it and released just slightly late (it wasn’t really a serious bug)
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Mental Control of Computers
Yahoo! News – Scientists gingerly tap into brain’s power
This is a really great piece of news. If this technology can be extended then it will really improve the quality of people’s lives immensely.
Plus they’re also promising non-invasive approaches too.
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Cocoa#
I’ve been playing around a bit recently with mono and cocoa#.
There also seems to be an experimental build of Mono-develop.
I begin to think that .net and mono are going to be excellent java competitors. I also think that the idea of supporting platform differences makes more sense than the java swing approach of lowest-common-denominator functionality.
I started off SQLEditor in java swing and then switched to cocoa. I wonder if there will eventually be another rewrite to mono and .net?
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Sorry about lack of postings
Not much happening here recently. I don’t think I’ve posted anything since September. This is mainly because I’ve been really busy with other stuff. SQLEditor has been making good progress and I’ve been working on some other projects too.
