Wouldn't it be great if there was a common data source you could query for all information about an area – bus timetables, ATM locations, cost of housing etc.?
I just spent the end of last week and the weekend down in Manchester for the Future Everything conference and Innovation Challenge Hackathon and got to see and…
You wouldn't think that a year that started with getting thrown of of my band would turn out to be so much fun but hey, it did.
The Trip
The first few weeks of the year were spent waiting to find out if I'd get approval to go work in Canada. Then it got approved and we had to wait and see if the Canadian Government…
And the winner of this week’s most horrifying code goes to this snippet:
Dictionary<string, Dictionary<GeoDirection, Dictionary<bool, List<Route>>>> routes = new Dictionary<string, Dictionary<GeoDirection, Dictionary<bool, List<Route>>>>();
Generic, eh.
I've been really impressed with what I've seen of Windows 8. I seem to be in the minority but the tile layout, type to search and (almost) instant-on seem like a huge step forward to me. Also, the ability to create desktop apps using HTML5 and JavaScript is set to open up app development to a huge number of…
So, I was trying to add a new class to a project in Visual Studio and the template for it seemed to have disappeared.
I still had the “Add Class” option in the dropdown but no “Class” option when I got into the “Add New Item” dialogue.
Luckily, it’s pretty easy to fix.
Find the templates
If you have a look inside your…
I just spent the past four hours trying to work this one out so posting here to hopefully save me time when I have the same issue in 6 months time.
I've got a bunch of files on my unRAID server. For reasons then unknown, all of the files in one of the folders weren't showing up when viewed in Windows through the Samba…
I spent a while figuring this out about a month ago with a Linux expert colleague (hi, Caz!) but didn't write any of it down because it was going to be “fixed in the next release of Raspbmc”.
I'm still getting the issue with the latest release so thought I'd best document the steps for when I inevitably have to do…
Since Mark reminded me that I hadn't posted this yet.
This takes a while to cook so plan in advance.
Ingredients
Pork Shoulder, around 1.8Kg
Apple Juice - the cheap, supermarket own-brand stuff is good. Quantity depends on your slow cooker/pork size (see below)
3 Onions
400g Barbeque Sauce
Salt & Pepper
To…
I like debugging JavaScript in Chrome. The console is pretty excellent for stepping through code, logging, checking for bounds events etc.
The one issue that I kept running into was that of caching. As I was making changes to my JS file, I found myself having to go through a couple of menu settings every time I wanted…
In a previous post, I set out how to use an Ant script to run every JavaScript file in a project through the Closure compiler.
For the most part, this has been working fine for me. Then I ran it against a project with some 50-odd JavaScript files and it started to throw PermGen OutOfMemoryError errors. So, it needed…