Category: Application design
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Londroid RNIB workshop – other blog posts
Other posts relevant to this weekend’s workshop Android: Ice Cream Sandwich Accessibility photo of a winner I will add more links to this page as they emerge.
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The Power of Making at the V&A
Yesterday I went to the Power of Making exhibition at the V&A. It is an exhibition of crafted objects that range from Swarovski crystal bicycles to replacement human noses. My older (12, 16) children enjoyed it and my youngest (8) tolerated it. Favourite objects: Me: 3D printer for making small objects from plastic Elaine (my…
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Creating data-driven graphs
I have a need to programmatically create flowcharts and organisational charts for use with an WordPress or Wiki site. This sort of diagram is called a “graph” (not be confused with “charts” in this context). Graph software falls into the scientific or commercial category. Good scientific packages include JUNG, Prefuse, Piccolo2D. These are optimised for…
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Londroid 16 Sep 2011 – 1.6 million downloads
The Londroid September meetup was a great success. Here is a quick review for people who could not make it. Kabbee – A marketplace for minicab journeys – Phil Makinson What is Kabbee? Kabbee is a price comparison and booking service for quality minicabs in Greater London. Very nice use of a smartphone. This is…
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Firefox maker moves towards a browser-free world • The Register
This is an interesting article about mobile, web and HTML5. Mobiles need ‘a strong infusion of Mozilla values’ via Firefox maker moves towards a browser-free world • The Register.
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How to make and sell software products
I will be giving a presentation to the UK ColdFusion group on April 21st. It’s free to attend and you will meet lots of interesting people. You can book here. The talk is How to make and sell software products – project management for profit and pleasure and it will be a simple walk-through of…
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The semantic web on a platter – Google recipe search
The semantic web has made it to the mainstream in a rather surprising way. Recipe site owners have been marking up plain HTML pages with microformats that allow Google’s spider to understand the meaning of the content. This is much easier than creating two versions of every page – one for humans and one for…
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Design Patterns for Spatial Information Visualisation and Analytics Applications « Information Interaction
In an earlier post I wrote that user experience is the new battleground in software. If that is the case then this post and the referenced resources are good material for fighting it. Design Patterns for Spatial Information Visualisation and Analytics Applications via Design Patterns for Spatial Information Visualisation and Analytics Applications « Information Interaction.
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Relative popularity of Java, ASP, Perl, PHP and Scala in print
When deciding what programming language to use for a project the answer is always “the one your team can use!” but even so it is interesting to compare the trends in the market. I have used Google Ngram Viewer to compare the frequency with which the names of various programming languages appear in books. If…
Dr James Bayley 