Dec. 11, 2009
Observe the following technological trends:
- Digital photo frames getting larger and cheaper
- Electronic paper (e.g. e-book readers)
- Phones with real operating systems
- Tablets
- WiFi and wireless broadband
- Pico projectors
The internet is leaving the stuffy confines of the PC and coming out to meet us in the real world. Virtual reality is dead, and augmented reality killed it.
Case in point: the small cafe near the office where I worked for RjDj in London didn't have chalk boards. Instead it had three large LCD screens listing its menu and specials.
Pretty soon, a whole lot more surfaces will become little windows into the internet.
Nov. 18, 2009
Name Chris McCormick
Registration Number xxxxx
Destination Fremantle
Number of Boxes 2
Box - 1
Number Description Purchased Value
8 Books UK 40
15 Books Australia 20
2 Art prints UK 75
4 Clothes Australia 10
2 Vinyl beanbag covers UK 50
1 Pack of business cards Australia 0
1 Clock UK 14
1 Air mattress pump (electric) UK 5
1 Midi controller (electronic musical instrument) Australia 75
1 Blanket UK 4
1 Drum machine (electronic musical instrument) UK 50
Box - 2
Number Description Purchased Value
2 Books Australia 10
2 Handbags UK 20
9 Pairs of shoes Australia 60
20 Clothes Australia 20
1 Hat UK 4
2 Plastic toy pidgeon UK 5
4 Vinyl records (bowie) UK 4
10 Photos (personal) UK 0
5 Theatre programmes (personal) UK 0
10 Fridge magnets (personal) Australia 0
16 Birthday/Christmas/Anniversary cards (personal) UK 0
So long, London. Until next time!
Oct. 30, 2009
Here are some maddest of props for two great little bits of software we've been using for RjDj work lately, and which might not be that well known yet.
Flot
Flot is a really nice little jQuery library which does exactly what it says on the box: draws charts. It strikes a very nice balance between smart, easy defaults, and being customisable.
http://code.google.com/p/flot/
South
South helps you with database migrations in Django. Database migrations are where you have made your models and deployed them live on the server, including having your SQL tables created, but now you want to change something. People who are used to the flexbility of Python find this situation frustrating. Instead of having to manually write SQL to upgrade your tables to match your new models, South will magically do the hard work for you. What's more is it will have that work represented as Python code which you can customise, modify, and version in your repository. Once again it strikes that balance between doing the right thing and being customisable.
Honorable mention
The rest of our web stack looks like this: Debian GNU/Linux, lighthttpd, python, django, lame, oggdec, postgresql, mysql, wordpress, phpbb3, boto, and we use bzr for versioning.
Together these make as nice and friendly a collection of Free Software as there ever was. Thanks, Free Software makers! You rule.
Oct. 22, 2009
Thursday 22nd of October, 2009 @ 7:30pm
The Roebuck Pub (SE1 4YG)
- Rob Munro
- Jonny Stutters
- Ryan Jordan
- Chris McCormick
- Cane Toad Orchestra
I'm probably going to play a set with my Garage Acid Lab Pd patches, if I can get it together in time.