During software development it's key to minimize the time between editing code and seeing the results of a change. During web-development the constant tweaking of CSS/HTML/Javascript etc means you're always reloading the browser to see changes.
At work I do a lot of Java web development, which normally …
Here in Brighton a good number of the bus stops have electronic boards, that tell you when the next buses are due. The data for these boards is available online and even provides data for stops that don't have the electronic boards. In fact there's an free iPhone app available …
So here's another quick Arduino project. It is a "theremin" of sorts, but whereas a real theremin uses antennas to control pitch and volume this on uses a potentiometer for pitch and a push button for volume. The tone is output via a piezo buzzer (as used for generating morse …
So I finally have an Arduino. I've been hankering after one for a while now, after seeing what Build Brighton and others have been able to do with them. So I was very happy when my better half paid attention to the hints I'd been dropping and got me an …
Ok so I blogged about a podcatcher/podcast client for the Chumby quite a while ago (August 2008 to be precise). At the time I said I'd tidy things up and release the source code etc. Well that didn't quite happen, but I figured I might as well release the …
So quite a while ago I wrote about avoiding the n+1 query problem with SQLObject. I've since been using Django a lot more. In particular at my day job I've been improving a Django site we've inherited. This particular site suffered from a few too many SQL queries and …
I've been working on a little kite physics demo app:
After chatting with Allistar at the £5app about how he did physics simulations I was pointed at "Gauss-Seidel" as an easy way to handle constraints. This led me to Advanced Character Physics by Thomas Jakobsen, which explained it all very …
A while back I had a go at using the local storage features being added to javascript to create a simple TODO list app. The main focus of the app was getting it all to fit under 5K (5120 bytes), but it was a good test of using a client-side …
The Django admin site is one of the best features of Django. It really lets you just get on with building your app, without having to worry too much about how you'll administer your site.
The defaults are generally pretty good, but it's often the case that you'll want to …