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Programming, gadgets and life as a lecturer in a UK university.

April 2004 - Posts

Last Blog of the Day
Friday, April 30, 2004 10:46 PM
I'm determined to keep my blogging record up to one per day (at least). I've been invigilating today. Two hours sat watching students suffer in an exam. You might find this surprising, but it is quite stressful for the examiner as well. It was all I could
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Vital Spoke Blogging Tip
Thursday, April 29, 2004 9:18 PM
Now, here's a tip for all Spoke bloggers out there. Just before you press the post button on your wonderful words of wisdom, higlight all the text in the window (use CTRL+A to do this) and copy it into the paste buffer (use CTL+C to do this). Then when
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The Importance of Knowing Where You Are. And Evil Pixie II
Wednesday, April 28, 2004 9:21 PM
Sometimes I worry about myself. I've got Mappoint working on my Tablet PC. And I've just interfaced my GPS system to it so that it returns position information. I can now sit in my conservatory at my house (the only place I can get a fix on enough
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C# for Fun and Profit
Tuesday, April 27, 2004 6:54 PM
I've spent a big chunk of today writing my new C# course. We are teaching it to our first year students next session for the first time. C# has replaced Java in my affections for the simple reason that I find it more useful. And I reckon it will be easier
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Hull Boat Race
Monday, April 26, 2004 8:11 AM
It's not just London where they have a boat race. Oh no.(and why is it always Oxford and Cambridge in the final?)
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Still No Programming - Firefly Instead
Monday, April 26, 2004 7:50 AM
Another day of not writing programs. Did watch some Firefly though. Still quite enjoying it, but it does seem a bit of a missed oportunity. It is/was the next big thing from Jos Whedon, the man who brought you Buffy and Angel. It is supposed to have these
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No Programming!
Saturday, April 24, 2004 7:20 PM
I've done no programming today! But I have moved the lawn, mended the fence and showed number one son how to scrape rust of cars (there is always more rust than you think - even if you allow for this). I also found time to take my first photograph for
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Recreational Programming with Bad Pixies
Friday, April 23, 2004 1:36 PM
Things that you do for fun are supposed to be fun. Having finished mowing the lawn (or more specifically - looking at the lawn and going "Oh, that can wait until the weekend...") I went back to my nasty cursor problem. Ugh. No fun. Sometimes when you
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Busy? What?
Thursday, April 22, 2004 6:10 PM
Ha. It rained. No lawn mowing for me. So I did a little coding. As one does. I've hit a problem with the Smartphone. I think that madness beckons. I wanted to create a splash screen for my program which warmly welcomes the user and gives them something
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Recreational Programming
Wednesday, April 21, 2004 11:35 AM
I write programs for fun. Don't ask why. I suppose it is better than fishing, or making kits (incidentally, one of my major ambitions is to go to Paris, buy around 1,000 little statues of the Eiffel tower and then make a model of a matchstick with them).
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Blogs and Interfaces
Tuesday, April 20, 2004 8:50 AM
I teach programming. One of the things I teach is interfaces, which are a really neat part of Java and C#. An interface is a bunch of methods which a class can implement. Essentially it is a list of things that the class says it can do. This goes
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New to the spoke
Monday, April 19, 2004 12:58 PM
I'm kind of auditioning blog hosts at the moment. I'm trying to find out which is the best one to move www.robmiles.com to. At the moment all my innermost thoughts and feelings come courtesy of a little program I downloaded and a small amount of free
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