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Comment on When using canvas, make sure you set the width and height explicitly by Tom

Tom — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 20:21:39 +0000

Yeah. Strange indeed - came across this problem when canvas first came out. I guess they still haven’t sorted it out. Or have they? CSS is separate from HTML in a way so it makes sense to specify width/height as you would on an OBJECT tag but it’s really confusing.

Comment on CSSUnit : experimenting with unit testing presentation code. by admin

admin — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 15:13:59 +0000

yeah, sorry about that, it’s the downside of working on a terrible piece of hardware, i.e. HP laptop…

Comment on CSSUnit : experimenting with unit testing presentation code. by :(

:( — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 13:51:11 +0000

Wow, the audio quality on the youtube video is diabolical.

Comment on The mobile data monopoly : what holds smartphones back from the masses. by agyramugyho

agyramugyho — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 05:53:17 +0000

agyramugyho…

Sandra Voelker …

Comment on The mobile data monopoly : what holds smartphones back from the masses. by admin

admin — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 12:12:56 +0000

Yes, I noticed that BT had jumped on the band wagon with their own flavor of it, but wasn’t sure how much of that was to do them breaking up with the cloud and needing a stop gap. Do people using BT know they are part of the fon network? I’m surprised that I have never seen them in any hotels. There’s an opportunity there for someone to go into a load of small hotels with fon routers and set them up for customers and make money off the payback scheme.

Comment on The mobile data monopoly : what holds smartphones back from the masses. by toychicken

toychicken — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 10:11:31 +0000

Actually FON is in use by BT - you can sign up for FON, and use a BT FON access point where you find one.

http://www.btfon.com/

Comment on The mobile data monopoly : what holds smartphones back from the masses. by admin

admin — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 13:06:59 +0000

Wow, that’s exactly the type of thing I was talking about. It’s strange that I’ve missed the marketing for this, it seems to be fairly widespread. What then would be really useful is for this hotspot data to be downloadable by phones and then when your offline you can see where your nearest access point is.

Comment on The mobile data monopoly : what holds smartphones back from the masses. by Tom

Tom — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:06:14 +0000

The wifi concept is the idea behind FON, a Spanish start up which started offering this service but has not had too much success I believe.

Comment on Biology is getting interesting! by Tom

Tom — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:13:54 +0000

Just got round to watching that. Amazing and scary at the same time

Comment on IndexOf is faster than regex by admin

admin — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:59:41 +0000

So, the regex.test() method also only returns a boolean to confirm whether the string is there - I guess the title would be more precise to say that indexOf is faster than .regex.test(). But in general, when you initiate the regex engine, it has a whole load more string validations to check due to it’s higher complexity, where as all indexOf has to is get to the first instance of that string and then return true. It would be interesting to further this research by trying different length of strings, and then putting the match string in different locations, to see whether that makes a difference.