http://twmdesign.co.uk/theblog A problem shared is a virus? Tue, 29 Dec 2009 19:34:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en If anyone is interested in quick purchase of the concept/source code for mobile mind. Drop me a email. http://twmdesign.co.uk/theblog/?p=307 As many of you know, I've taken a back seat from software while I complete (or at least attempt) to complete a medical degree. It's probably two years since I made a serious decision to change career. Back then, I decided to test the waters of returning to education by taking ... http://twmdesign.co.uk/theblog/?p=291 Well, Symbian professional services have found a new home under the umbrella of Accenture. I worked as part of the LPD (Licensee product development) and LTC (Licensee Technical Consulting) divisions of Symbian for a good few years. It was good work, and there are some very talented people within that ... http://twmdesign.co.uk/theblog/?p=285 One of my photos was used in a book on "Biolomedical engineering" by W. Mark Saltzman. I'm so proud that my image has been used to illustrate elastic deformation and Young's modulus. I think this Amazon link should work for most folk. Original in colour: http://twmdesign.co.uk/theblog/?p=281 Been doing quite a bit of SQL programming on and off. Although SQL is old as hell. MySQL on web and sqlite on mobile make it pretty much a compulsory skill for the modern developer to master for most types of data storage and retrieval. Of course, SQL on its own ... http://twmdesign.co.uk/theblog/?p=222 Ever sat there writing some code, thinking that it's all right work but hardly contributing to the benefit of mankind. Well, maybe you have made a difference, in an indirect way. Aside from the SOAP, Web services and SQL databases and visualisation software that goes into large collaborative science ... http://twmdesign.co.uk/theblog/?p=277 I have an application that needs to send a HTTP request on application exit to tell the server that the app terminated normally. When the user presses the exit button, I issue an asynchronous request to send off a HTTP transaction and get a callback once that's done. Now the problem is, ... http://twmdesign.co.uk/theblog/?p=275 I'm doing some work with location based services at the moment. A colleague told me of some of the problems they had had with the software. One was related to the SkyHook system. This is the system that Apple used and helps to improve the speed of acquiring a fix ... http://twmdesign.co.uk/theblog/?p=272 Much as I adore Wilhelm spotting, it's not as fun now that it's so widely known about outside the film industry. If you don't know what I'm talking about, then you probably wondered why some people at the cinema laugh seemingly inappropriately at horrific explosions and falls. The Wilhelm scream is a ... http://twmdesign.co.uk/theblog/?p=270 ffmpeg is an extraordinary program, it seems to deal with just about any video format I care to throw at it. If you are not one of the enlightened, ffmpeg is a command line tool which supports transcoding of content from one format to another. Many of the $10 video converters ... http://twmdesign.co.uk/theblog/?p=261