What did you do in the computer wars dad?
Do I just sit here talking bollocks and playing the ukulele, I hear you ask. Well that does take up quite a bit of time but my day job involves creating applications for mobile phones. This is done mainly in Java ME but increasingly we are involved in mobile web applications. Our main focus for the past year has been our Mobriz product, which enables people to dynamically capture information via user editable surveys downloaded to their mobile phone.
Over the last few months we have added the capability to capture images from the phone too. These are stored in the phones RMS storage and uploaded to to the server via the phone’s network connection. Mucho thanks to Steve & Jason at Paxmodept for their help getting this rolling.
Here are a few screen shots of the phone and finally a picture of real uploaded picture.
Talkin’ ’bout no good low battery, on the train, iChat Blues.
And men abed in England …
So with the the regular manager on holiday I was drafted in the manage the under 10s. We were playing Woolton Rangers who are top of the league. Here’s my pre-match team talk:
This story shall the good man teach his son,
And Crispin Crispian shall ne’er go by
From this day to the ending of the world
But we in it shall be rememberèd,
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers.
For he today that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition.
And gentlemen in England now abed
Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day
The score? oh 8-0. Cough.
POHO - Pub office home office
So it turns out The Ram Inn has got WiFi. Oh Dear.
Mobile Youtube
Used to be that you could view a selected sub set of you tube videos thru you mobile phone. Turns out they have created a java application where you can download all the videos. It’s very impressive. Download instructions are here
BOHO: Big Office Home Office
Our software developers are corn fed and allowed to roam free in a natural environment. Our code uses no genetically modified products but we did drip a bit of paraffin on the fire to get it going.
If you were unfaithful ….
“If you were unfaithful, I would kick you out”.
“You’d miss me”.
“No I wouldn’t I would just get another Sky Digital box for the bedroom”.
Northern Soul
Snogging on the sofa with the new Apple Mac. Got her in the mood with some Northern Soul n iTunes. How about these for lyrics:
Breakin’ down the walls of heartache, baby
I’m a carpenter of love and affection!
Breaking down the walls of heartache, baby
Got to tear down all the loneliness and tears
and build you up a house of love
He’s light on his feet ..
For most of my career, I have believed that the following statements are largely equivalent:
1. I understand he uses an Apple Mac.
2. They say he’s light on his feet.
3. He is very interested in interior design.
4. I’ve been told he supports Manchester City.
But as of January the 2nd I have changed my tune as I have become the proud owner of an Apple MacBook Pro. With the King of Scotland’s help I have got up to speed very quickly and have been genuinely surprised how smooth and lovely the whole experience is.
The decision to go Apple Mac was taken purely for business reasons. My Dell windows laptop was unable to run the hairy development tools I use and wasn’t prepared to invest in another windows machine that would require bi-annual reinstalls and misery. Now that Mac are intel underneath the ability to run Windows apps (via VMware) is very reliable and the rest of the stuff I use like Eclipse and tomcat and PostgreSQL works natively.
Its all fab, if you have been thinking about switching, go for it.
20th Century Icons
In the science museum, next to the Apollo module!
- Taken at 11:38 AM on December 30, 2007 - cameraphone upload by ShoZu