Archive for November, 2007

My Location

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

Google have launched a new feature called My Location for their mobile Google Maps application. It uses knowledge of which base stations your phone is near to calculate an approximate location. All this is irrelevant though. I’d suggest watching the video just to find out what American’s think the most famous English food is…

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Visitor pattern

Wednesday, November 14th, 2007

Today I are be’n mostly reminding myself that I should brush up on my software engineering. Specifically I should invest some time actually reading most of the common design patterns. Due to a chance sentence in a paper I was reading, I discovered the visitor pattern which neatly solves a problem I had been having in some of my software.

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There are only 500 Linux users in the UK…

Thursday, November 1st, 2007

The BBC’s head of technology has claimed that “[there are] 17.1 million users of bbc.co.uk in the UK and, as far as our server logs can make out, 5 per cent of those [use Macs] and around 400 to 600 are Linux users.” If you are one of those select few and are a member of Facebook, join the effort to find them all.

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