Life
Operating Systems – Eeek!
My three hard drives have loads of important data on them. Pictures, documents, music,movies. All sorts of stuff that I've created and collected over years.
Life
Podcasts, podcasts, podcasts
Feature image courtesy of http://www.hitthefloor.com/ Keen readers will have noticed by now that I’ve written about Podcasts before (namely here [LINK]). Not to worry though, dear reader. Previously, I’d written about podcasts relating directly to software development. I’m a software developer, you see. It just stands to reason that I’d be interested in that Read more…
Life
Keeping up with Development – Podcasts
Feature image courtesy of www.programmingthrowdown.com Programming is one of those occupations where it can be hard to stay up to date. Especially since it seems like there are 2 new languages, 3 new frameworks and 18 new Javascript libraries released each week. All of this means that it can be difficult to keep Read more…
How To's
Mono, Xamarin and Gtk#
Over the past few weeks I’ve been playing with cross platform development tools. With Microsoft’s announcement of the Visual Studio Code preview [LINK], the latest version of Mono (version 4.0, built against the C# 6.0 spec) [LINK] and Microsoft open sourcing their entire Core CLR for .NET [LINK], now is Read more…
Life
Digital Cinema and Access for All
Disclaimer What you’re about to read is a simplified version of how digital projection works. The thing is, that it’s all true, just simplified a bit. Digital Cinema? So digital cinema refers to when a cinema or movie theatre puts on a performance of a film (more commonly known as a Read more…
Life
It’s Almost Been A Year
Monday, December 2nd, 2013 – 7:01 am Hi Jamie, Leigh has passed away this morning. Sue I read those words and I felt a pain that I had never felt. A Friend I’d known Leigh for years. I vividly remember him from 2 days before I even met him. I Read more…
Code Examples
Landing Page Redesign
So I decided to redesign my landing page. The one found over here: [LINK] Why? When I originally wrote it, I didn’t have a great knowledge of HTML, CSS and the like. However, since then I’ve been improving my knowledge and skills with those languages, JavaScript and responsive site design. Read more…
Life
Managing My Projects
I recently went on holiday and I spent part of my time there, relaxing by the pool, taking in some sun and watching the world go by. It was extremely relaxing, and I should do it more often – my last holiday before then was 2008. My time relaxing permitted me to Read more…
Life
Where Have You Been [2014 edition]?
So I’ve not written since March 12th… almost 3 months ago. What’s happened since then? I’ve moved 60 miles, gotten myself a new job and ran a 9 minute mile. A New Job? That’s right. I’m only a week into my probationary period at the minute (3 months will fly by, Read more…
Life
My First Computer – The I Ever Used or Programmed
On the back of a previous blog post where I posted my answer to a question on Reddit about the first video game I ever played [LINK], I thought that I would share a similar question asked over on /r/RetroBattleStations (a sub-Reddit dedicated to older computer rigs): “Whats your earliest Read more…