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HTC One X and Jawbone Up Problems

By Jack Concanon On May 19, 2013 · Add Comment · Gadgets, Mobile Phones
I got quite excited about the recent push into wearable computers and bought a Jawbone Up to keep track of everything I do. It is a neat system that tracks sleep and movement during the day, it also comes with an excellent mobile application for keep track of this data. Data is transferred from the band using [...]
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Unit Testing C# With Data in Visual Studio 2012

By Jack Concanon On May 16, 2013 · Add Comment · Information
When writing unit tests it is likely you will  need to include some additional input files containing data or settings etc. If you’re trying to include some data for a C# unit test and are using Visual Studio 2012 follow this guide - Add a separate folder for data to the project then ‘add an existing item’ [...]
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Optimising C++ The STL Way

By Jack Concanon On May 16, 2013 · Add Comment · Programming
In order to speed up primitive code it is always worth looking at the STL to see what it can do for you. This post describes a challenge to improve a seemingly fast piece of code and how it is done.
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Site Direction

By Jack Concanon On May 15, 2013 · Add Comment · Site News
I think I should finally commit to using this site for something. Anytime I find out something useful or create something that has a remote chance of being reused I will stick it on here. Maybe it could actually live up to the Acodemic name.
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Vinaigrette Sort

By Jack Concanon On May 15, 2013 · Add Comment · Programming
When programming in C for embedded systems where memory, disk usage and CPU usage are all very strict there are several 'rules' in place such as not use dynamically allocated arrays; this ensures that you can retain more control over memory management. This post discusses a possible problem and solution for dealing with partly filled fixed sized arrays in C.
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Python Socketed Receiver

By Jack Concanon On March 14, 2013 · Add Comment · Programming
This is a quite cool little class I wrote for receiving log messages over sockets. It is launched as a thread and uses a python Queue to store messages for retrieval by consumers in your main program. It also means I can have multiple sockets for different log sources. Update - The python Queue class is [...]
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Linux Mint on VirtualBox – Enable 3D Acceleration

By Jack Concanon On March 5, 2013 · Add Comment · Elsewhere
Just spent a bit of time installing the latest Linux Mint (14.1) on VirtualBox and struggling to get the VirtualBox 3D acceleration to work correctly. This causes the window manager to fall back to software rendering (yuk); to see if your machine is currently using software rendering run inxi -G and check for Gallium 0.4 on [...]
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WTF Is UPlay?

By Jack Concanon On January 4, 2013 · 1 Comment · Elsewhere, Gaming, Internet
Wanted to play Far Cry 3, turns out I have to use yet another pointless game ‘service’. Seriously, for single player I have to register an account and be logged on and all sorts of other rubbish. Really getting tired of this all because of piracy. Next time I’m getting it from the Pirate Bay.
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New Gmail Compose Screen

By Jack Concanon On November 5, 2012 · Add Comment · Internet
Just been prompted by Gmail to use a new email composing screen. Not a massive change as you’d expect from Google but it does make the web client a bit more seamless. Basically instead of being directed to a new screen when composing an email, a composition window similar to a Google chat window will [...]
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Project Eternity

By Jack Concanon On October 29, 2012 · Add Comment · Gaming, Internet
I have backed my first Kickstarter campaign, and what a place to start! Project Eternity is the idea from a group of clearly very talented developers with titles such as Baldur’s Gate, Fallout and Planescape Torment under their belts. TAKE MY MONEY PLEASE. Cannot wait to see how this game turns out. Been very impressed with [...]
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It’s Programmer’s Day, Where’s My Presents?!

By Jack Concanon On September 13, 2012 · Add Comment · Elsewhere, Internet, Programming
Today I learnt that it is programmer’s day, apparently we’re all supposed to get beer and pizza? I for one shall be celebrating by porting various tools from Linux to Solaris.
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Correct Setup of Python Easy-Install

By Jack Concanon On August 11, 2012 · 1 Comment · Programming
Starting work on some python driver development today for the ant+ system (more on this later) and had to install a bunch of Python modules that didn’t appear on the standard Ubuntu repos. Python has a very easy package manager of it’s own called easy tools which is found in the python-setuptools package. But this [...]
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