May 2006 Entries
The first of the Carnoustie Golf Links video casts has been posted on the site, check it out here.
Tags: Carnoustie, Carnoustie Open, 2007 Open, Golf
The latest development update regarding our bakery control software (netBake) can be found here.
This weekend we've had my eldest daughter's 15 birthday sleepover (tent city in our back garden), my youngest daughter's school show rehersals and my son's cub camp. Boy, it's great to be back at work for a rest :)
The latest information on the the Carnoustie Golf Link's preparation for the 2007 Open, can be found here. Check it out if you are a golf fan.
Over the last couple of days I've been getting hammered by trackback spam. My spam count, via Spam Karma, as gone from 400 to 1,500. If you are getting the same problem then you should consider downloading Spam Karma, none of the spam has hit my blog and the only reason I know about it is because Spam Karma keeps a count of it. Sounds like Scoble's got the same problem too.
This recipe is for Dolphin Smalltalk. To run the code, cut and paste it into a workspace and “Evaluate It”
Problem
You want to access or modify just a portion of a string, not the whole thing. For instance, you've read a fixed-width record and want to extract the individual fields.
Solution
| aRecord attributes |
"Create a string to represent customer record"
aRecord := '01 Gary Short 24/01/1970 gary@garyshort.org'.
"Split the record into attributes"
attributes := aRecord subStrings.
"Show the attributes collection in the Transcript window"
Transcript show: attributes printString.
Tag: Smalltalk Cookbook
Our office is being covered with smoke from this fire. Time to close the windows I think.
Tag: Dundee Fire
At last night’s Extreme Tayside meeting we were looking at code katas and I was working with Barry Carr, who’s weapon of choice for the evening was Smalltalk. Working away on the code katas made me realise just how much Smalltalk I’d forgotten since I last used it.
To remedy that situation I intend to get back into the language again and to do this I have decided to work through the recipes in the Perl Cookbook, and as much as possible, recreate them in Dolphin Smalltalk. So watch out for infrequent postings on this.
Tag: Smalltalk Cookbook
Just a reminder that the next meeting of Extreme Tayside is tonight at the Queen Mother Building at Dundee Uni, all are welcome. Tonight we’ll be looking at code katas from an XP perspective.
Tag: Extreme Tayside
I’ve posted the latest burn down graph on my flickr site, you can see it here. As you can see we have recovered from our initial problems, but we are still going to have to work hard to bring the sprint in on time.
Tag: Bakery Control System, Bakery Software, netBake
This is a test post made from my PDA using Diarist.
Maybe this local newspaper story will answer Michael’s question as to where all the free tickets for Radio 1’s Big Weekend , that were promised to Dundee, actually went. Of course those that weren’t s...
Shel Israel has picked up on our Carnoustie Golf Links Blog . In his posting he makes a good point regarding global neighbourhoods
Carnoustie is indicative of a central theme in Global Neighborhood...
I've got good news! Consolas, a cleartype font designed specifically for to make code more readable is now available for download for users of Visual Studio 2005 from the Microsoft Download Center.
VSEditor's WebLog : New Font for the Visual Studio 2005 Editor.
I’m using it here, and it’s very nice.
Tags: Font, VSEditor
The latest project information has been posted on the netBake site. Check it out at http://www.netbake.co.uk/.
Tags: Bakery Software, netBake
Last night I delivered my AJAX talk, and apparently I didn’t suck too much. There were a couple of questions that came up that I was not 100% sure of the answers and said I’d answer them here, so here goes.
- Does AJAX work over SSL. Yes it does. SSL is transparent to the user agent and so if the url specified is https then the traffic created by XMLHttpRequest will be acted upon just like any other traffic.
- Can I send XML data to a service via AJAX. Yes you can. You would do something similar to the following:
//…code to create create an XMLHttpRequest object
//…code to create XML parser and load XML data
xmlReq.open(“POST”, “URL_to_service.cgi”, true);
xmlReq.send(xml_doc_object_created_above);
//…other processing / tidy up code
The slide deck and example code is available here (MD5: 76C29FB919486486F10AA86BAF025D5F), if you’d like them. Please get in touch if you have any questions.
Tag: AJAX
Over on his blog Dave Winer talks about Rocketboom distributing a “best of Rocketboom” mega file via BitTorrent. I think this is a great use of the medium and when the Open 2007 is over and done with, we’ll release all the the podcasts and vlogs via BitTorrent as well.
Tag: Dave Winer, BitTorrent
The first of the “Journey to the Open 2007” podcasts is up on the Carnoustie Golf Link’s site; check it out here.
Tag: Carnoustie Open 2007 Podcasts
Kudos to my daughter Gemma who received her promotion to Lance Corporal, in the Army Cadets, last night.
Tag: Army Cadet Force
My employers have updated their web site with a wizzy new Wordpress front end; check it out here.
Tag: Computa
I am giving a talk on AJAX to a combined meeting of the B.C.S and Scottish Developers tomorrow (4th May) between 7pm and 9pm. The talk will be held in the Queen Mother Building at Dundee University, see previous post for location. Everyone is welcome to come along and jeer.
The next meeting of Extreme Tayside is tonight, in the Queen Mother Building at Dundee University, from 7pm – 9pm. The Queen Mother Building is building 61 on this map.
Tag: Extreme Tayside
I have put the weekly update for the netBake project up on the product site. Check it out, if you’re following along at home.
Tag: netBake
It’s my daughter’s birthday today and her standard grade exams start today; some people have no luck eh?
Tags: Birthday, Exams
People who work with me have often heard me say that working with users towards a common goal, is sometimes like herding cats. So for these people, I post this movie.
Tag: Humour
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