…standing on the shoulders of giants…
I’m an experienced programmer, but have only ever touched on electronics during A-levels and my degree course. New developer boards Arduino open up the world of micro-electronics to those with little or no experience. This is the start of my adventure: The kit I brought was the SparkFun Inventor's Kit for Arduino with Retail Case... Continue Reading →
Today I got an Arduino Uno and I’m getting my geek on!
So I have a ream of ideas and techs to look into… which one(s) first?… Technologies? Continuous IntegrationWeb Unit TestingMockingPrototypingAndroid DevAtlassian Suite Ideas / Concepts? 10% Project WebsiteTeam Holiday PlannerRoom / Resource BookerTravel Toiletries Website
Google are well known for their attitude towards encouraging employee creativity. So much so they have an initiative that allows all(?) employees to spend 20% of their time working on personal interest projects. A 20% project can be anything that sparks interest for the individual, in general they are usually something to do with improving... Continue Reading →
Many, many years ago I had a flatbed scanner and that scanner had a gnatty ‘scan-to-email’ function that would email any scans as a PDF attachment. Many years later (but still many years ago) I signed up for the Google Documents online service and registered for their Email to Documents service. This was a hashed... Continue Reading →
BBC News - Fringe's funniest joke prize awarded to Tim Vine
Someone asked me the other day "if you were robbed at knifepoint and had both your iPhone and your Nexus one stolen, and only had enough money to buy one back, which would it be?"... at the time the jury was out, I was undecided... today the jury has returned with a decision... for me,... Continue Reading →
Mark Cooper 