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

June 2005 - Posts

Planet Strange
Thursday, June 30, 2005 3:33 PM
I'm writing some presentation materials for my mobile conference at the moment (it's called Slide5 (www.slide5.com) and there are still some places left if you hurry. Great fun. I like producing this stuff.<Developer Geeky Stuff>Anyhoo, one of the
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Number One Son Speaks
Tuesday, June 28, 2005 1:39 PM
Number one son now has a blog on the spoke. He has also posted some pictures on Flickr taken at last week's UK Imagine Cup Final. Of course he is not as gooderly writer as wot I am being.But he is still worth reading. http://www.thespoke.net/MyBlog/Davermouse/MyBlog.asp
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Solid Slide5
Monday, June 27, 2005 6:53 PM
Just sent out the final timetable for the Student Mobile Development Conference on 18th July. Although I do say it myself, the content is good stuff. If you have any desire to write mobile code you will leave with something useful. If you are wriitng
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Imagine Cup Power
Thursday, June 23, 2005 6:26 PM
So where have you been?, I hear you all asking. Well, amongst other things, I've been down to London as a guest at the Imagine Cup UK Finals. When I got into the city the first thing was off down to Picadilly Circus to meet Andy and talk about Slide5.
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Silly things to do with Rabbits
Thursday, June 16, 2005 10:04 PM
The internet is a very strange place. Very. I wonder if there were ever countries like the internet before there was the internet. Defnintely not. I mean, how do you explain this.
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C# Rules the World
Wednesday, June 15, 2005 10:11 PM
A student today made the mistake of asking me why C# is better than Java. Half an hour later he staggered away, head reeling and carrying a pile of C# books I've lent him. Having used both langauges quite a lot I consider myself something of an expert
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Giving it all away
Tuesday, June 14, 2005 9:49 PM
Peter and I are using WinCVS to manage a software project we are working on. Very nice system. If all goes to plan we will be able to work on different parts of the application together. Well worth taking a look at : http://www.wincvs.org/Only one
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Results Tomorrow
Monday, June 13, 2005 9:52 PM
Tomorrow our students find out what kind of degree they've got. The university portal will let them go on line and download their marks. As long as it can take the strain...Talking of strain, I've had students trying to find out how they did for a while
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Philosophy or Not
Sunday, June 12, 2005 6:02 PM
Sometimes things happen in your life which force you to step back and consider the true nature of the way things are, and to examine your true place in the universe. In these situations you may tend to abstrain from routine actions like blogging, and
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Doctor Who?
Monday, June 06, 2005 10:10 PM
The Doctor is back and better than ever. I've been watching the new series on the BBC and it is super wonderful. If you've no idea who I'm talking about take a look here.If you want to fiddle with the theme tune take a look here.
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Photos and Phones
Friday, June 03, 2005 10:11 PM
I've been playing around with mobile phones and blogs. I've discovered (you probably all know this) that you can send an MMS (Multi Media Message) to an email address as well as another phone. If you configure your blog or photo software to work with
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Back in Hull
Thursday, June 02, 2005 7:31 PM
Back from Reading. Whizzed down to give a talk and now I'm back in Hull. Reading is a nice place (and on Tuesday I saw a lot of it thanks to faulty directions) but I reckon Hull has the edge. And I know where everything is in Hull without having to go
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