Posts tagged with "Programming"
Building Platforms
I’m currently a Staff Engineer in my organisation and sit within what we call the Platform pillar. Sort of obviously, we build the platforms that the rest of the business use to make the monies. This is how I like to think about platforms and what it means to be a good platform.
Read More →Making A Scene
For the past few weeks I’ve been taking a brief detour into the Transitions framework in Android. I’ve building a success screen that initially shows a full screen image and text and later transitions into a summary of your transaction.
This post documents some of the things I’ve learned whilst working on this.
Read More →Deconstructing Tweets
As part of my personal project for Spring, and to coincide with the UK 2015 General Election, I decided to create some bots that mirrored the main party candidates and translated their tweets to Jive. They are still running so you can find them on Twitter: Ed Jiveaband, Nick Jivegg, David Jiveron.
One of the more interesting problems that I faced was how to prevent special Tweet Entities being erroneously translated by the Jive translator. You may be asking what is a Tweet Entity? Let me explain about them first and then go on to explain how I can tackle such a problem.
Read More →The Jive Election 2015
Throughout March and April of 2015 I have been busy working on a pet project with my friend Ricky Shelton. The idea was simple. Make the politicians running in the 2015 UK General Election more electable by having them speak Jive.
Read More →Catha's Seat Design Ideas
A good friend of mine, Nick, is organising the construction of a bicycle seat on route 18 of the Cycle Network to complete the work started by his mother, Catha. You can read more about it on the Catha’s Seat website.
Mass Renaming & Restoring USB Drives
I recently had to rename a lot of files in directory as well as fix a broken USB drive. I reckon I’ll need to use this again at some point so here are the tips. Both for me and for you!
Unit Testing
Hello again!
I wanted to share with everyone the importance of the V model approach to testing. I’ve seen a lot of places (and people) who don’t understand this approach so this is my way of explaining it.
Better ways to test OSB services
This week I have been trying to find out more about how to unit test Oracle Service Bus services in a way that lends itself to automation and continuous integration.
Read More →Update on the droid picture project
It’s going well. I still can’t program for shit though. I need to learn how to make more effective use of the android documentation though.
Getting involved in testing Firefox 4
Wow!! I really like the open source community!
And this is why……….. http://quality.mozilla.org/
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