Absolute stunner of a remix of I cant stand the rain. Will probably have this on allot over Christmas!
http://soundcloud.com/mrkrokett/i-can-t-stand-the-rain-rayko
Wednesday 21 December 2011
Wednesday 14 December 2011
Corona Modules... the little buggers.
So Modules in Corona are easy to use but dont work so well...
Ansca may brag that coding with lua is "simpler" and less code than action script. But they should really look at why action script has matured over the years specifically to deal with issues like the one I am having with modules.
If your having trouble with global variables and modules that you thought you had cleared out but dont... then this might be the way forward. I think i will be trying this over the weekend...
A Better Approach to External Modules
I will right my own example when I understand this method better.
Ansca may brag that coding with lua is "simpler" and less code than action script. But they should really look at why action script has matured over the years specifically to deal with issues like the one I am having with modules.
If your having trouble with global variables and modules that you thought you had cleared out but dont... then this might be the way forward. I think i will be trying this over the weekend...
A Better Approach to External Modules
I will right my own example when I understand this method better.
Tuesday 13 December 2011
Thursday 8 December 2011
Christmas fair Hyde park
Took this photo of the big wheel at the Christmas fair down in London last week. Best Christmas fair I have been to it. It's hugeee! ... What bugs me though is why we have to rely on people from another country to do things right. It's all German.... Which is great... But why Caunt we do stuff like this our selves? Crappy culture? ... Meh
New platforms, ads, and more! | Ansca Mobile Blog | » Archive
I think I will be taking a look at this tonight.
Just shipped: New platforms, ads, and more! | Ansca Mobile Blog | » Archive:
'via Blog this'
Just shipped: New platforms, ads, and more! | Ansca Mobile Blog | » Archive:
'via Blog this'
Wednesday 7 December 2011
AOR DISCO: AOR DISCO LIVE with Steve Lee and Graeme Fisher
This was recorded at the night I recently went to down in London. Good times! good set! really kicks in around the 52min mark.
AOR DISCO: AOR DISCO LIVE with Steve Lee and Graeme Fisher:
'via Blog this'
AOR DISCO: AOR DISCO LIVE with Steve Lee and Graeme Fisher:
'via Blog this'
Music
Music... Still a hugeee part of my life. Its on nearly all the time. When I started this blog I always said I would make note of what I am listening to and haven't... So I will start!
And I will start with this one...
http://www.mixcloud.com/DJAndySmith/andy-smith-portishead-massive-attack-sampled-night-31211/
A great set of tracks from portishead and massive attack.
And I will start with this one...
http://www.mixcloud.com/DJAndySmith/andy-smith-portishead-massive-attack-sampled-night-31211/
A great set of tracks from portishead and massive attack.
Tuesday 6 December 2011
Steve Jobs’ Vision of the World « Strack @ Adobe
Ok so Im no apple fan... I always back the underdog!
But these comments are great. Great more so are the comments from the adobe employee
Steve Jobs’ Vision of the World « Strack @ Adobe:
'via Blog this'
But these comments are great. Great more so are the comments from the adobe employee
Steve Jobs’ Vision of the World « Strack @ Adobe:
'via Blog this'
Sunday 4 December 2011
Train down to London for a wedding
On the train down to London to day for our friend katys wedding. Going first class! Bit of luxury for the year... I don't think hotel will be half bad either. Got myself a copy of wired as well. This is science....
Thursday 24 November 2011
Another odd occurance... Thanks dad.
Over the last year or so both me and my mum have seen some odd things occur where they instantly remind us of my dad... And in all honestly sometimes its so strange I end up thinking its my dad causing it to happen.
Both of us have some even stanger odd occurances than the below.. But this one is "print" screenable...
Basically I have spent best part of 6months working on some functionality that tracks every track played on our jukeboxs and scrobbles them to last.fm. we keep a seperate account for just scrobbled background music. For the most part this plays totally random music from a caterlog that runs into the millions.
The screen shot below shows the top played background tracks over the last seven days...
For the most part the top tracks have been played 4 times.
But the number one spot has taken the place of one of my dads favourite artists Chicane with a total play of 7 times. Even more harrowing is the track title "Lost you somewhere"
....
Both of us have some even stanger odd occurances than the below.. But this one is "print" screenable...
Basically I have spent best part of 6months working on some functionality that tracks every track played on our jukeboxs and scrobbles them to last.fm. we keep a seperate account for just scrobbled background music. For the most part this plays totally random music from a caterlog that runs into the millions.
The screen shot below shows the top played background tracks over the last seven days...
For the most part the top tracks have been played 4 times.
But the number one spot has taken the place of one of my dads favourite artists Chicane with a total play of 7 times. Even more harrowing is the track title "Lost you somewhere"
Tuesday 22 November 2011
Next gen touchscreen
Futures shaping up nicely for touch screens. Looking forward to working with this kind of stuff
http://mashable.com/2011/11/21/exodesk/
Monday 21 November 2011
Corona scroll menu/text/images
This evening, if I'm given a chance I will be looking at implementing scrollable menus into my new app. One to the left of the screen, one to the right and one at the bottom. I think the best place to start for this is by running through the below tutorial.
http://developer.anscamobile.com/content/scroll-view
All in all I need three menus on the screen at anyone time. Thats going to take up a fair old lump of screen real estate. Hoping I can still design it in such away that its still usable!
That said Im technical support for my mum this evening, her internet has been off over the weekend so I need to go fix that. ... Then its a Tesco shop trip!
http://developer.anscamobile.com/content/scroll-view
All in all I need three menus on the screen at anyone time. Thats going to take up a fair old lump of screen real estate. Hoping I can still design it in such away that its still usable!
That said Im technical support for my mum this evening, her internet has been off over the weekend so I need to go fix that. ... Then its a Tesco shop trip!
Thursday 17 November 2011
Corona Local Vars
So last night I had 20 mins to spare after dinner at me mams house.
Just realised that if you dont mark a variable as "local" then you can access this if its sat in seperate module
sooo having the below in the main.lua....
local testlib = require("testlib")
print("testlib.hello")
....Will print what ever hello is equal to.
Local I suppose is the equivalent of a private variable in flash class.
Just realised that if you dont mark a variable as "local" then you can access this if its sat in seperate module
sooo having the below in the main.lua....
local testlib = require("testlib")
print("testlib.hello")
....Will print what ever hello is equal to.
Local I suppose is the equivalent of a private variable in flash class.
Thursday 10 November 2011
Corona, Lua
Started writing a phone app using Corona. Corona is the compiler, the language is lua and you can get a plugin for it for eclispe. Plug-ins ok. Doesn't pick up on everything.
Its good though, bit similar to actionscript, in fact the creators of it I think are X adobe employees.
Still has its issues though. I would like to see classes, and I would like somthing similar to events. unique events like what you can create in action script. I think you can do stuff like modules... which are a bit like classes. Will research that a bit further.
Im going to stick at it though. I need to start learning new languages.
Its good though, bit similar to actionscript, in fact the creators of it I think are X adobe employees.
Still has its issues though. I would like to see classes, and I would like somthing similar to events. unique events like what you can create in action script. I think you can do stuff like modules... which are a bit like classes. Will research that a bit further.
Im going to stick at it though. I need to start learning new languages.
Wednesday 9 November 2011
Dalby, nummonkton
This weekend it was mbk around dalby. Didn't think it was going to be all that good because of it being so cold and muddy. But turned out to be one of the better rides of the year. We missed a lot of the world cup part of the track out so I had much more strength towards the end. Really good bit of track if you have the energy! Yesterday me and nic went up wixely for Sunday lunch to find it was packed! So we came back towards York and stopped off at nummonkton.... This is a place next the river Ouse were as a young lad I would go away for long weekends with my mum and dad on our boat.... Emotions were running high when I saw were our boat would once rest a shore. As you can see from the photos we caught it an impressive time of the day.
Wednesday 19 October 2011
Wednesday 31 August 2011
Disable flex mobile auto orientate
To stop your applications from trying to auto orientate when a user changes from landscape to portrait....
you can change...
[code]
autoOrients>false autoOrients>[/code]You can find this setting in your apps "Application Descriptor File"
its an .xml file that's normally named ... nameofProject-app.xml
Wednesday 17 August 2011
Mos mixers
Had the chance to go to the ministry of sound offices down in London. Managed to catch some snaps of two mixes from the mid 90s. Both I think were involved in albums that helped shaped my tast in music. I think one photo appears in the annual 3 booklet.
Few snaps from Scotland/lakes
A photos taken from last weekends biking trip. Caunt remember where we were on the lakes but in Scotland we went down the Nevis range
Thursday 21 July 2011
Monday 27 June 2011
Tuesday 14 June 2011
notes for app...
NUMBER OF CALERIES
highest scrore (LARGEST NUMBER OF UNITS ON CONSUMMED ON CRUISE)
work out BAC
track spending amount
Monday 13 June 2011
[AS3]How do i sort a object array? - Flash Kit Community Forums
**modified for boozer...
records.sortOn(["name"]);
Monday 6 June 2011
Friday 3 June 2011
Thursday 2 June 2011
Tuesday 17 May 2011
Wednesday 11 May 2011
Tuesday 10 May 2011
Ride round York/Steven k amos
So this weekend I had nooo moneys at all. I got out on bike though, just a steady ride round York and up to naburn. Around 20 miles. Sunday we went to see Steven k amos well well funny!
Monday 9 May 2011
Saturday 7 May 2011
Bank holiday royal wedding / hangover.
This weekends been great but a bit expensive! Thursday evening I went into Leeds after work with mike. Not so much food in the stomach and boat load of booze ment I was well on my way when we got to the aagrah Indian resturant . The resturant is under the BBC north hq. Saw some news reader lining them up in a bar before we.went to the resturant. After eating I returned back to York on the train for a 11 quid! U what! Found my friends and lined up the yega bombs! Watch the royal weddings, and watched thore and walked round York with nic and dani. Also had a Crap burger thk! Really nice bankholiday
Friday 6 May 2011
Wednesday 27 April 2011
Friday 22 April 2011
Family
Nicolas not felt so good this last couple of days. We had some family down to see the house. Auntie Lynn, Lisa, uncle Gary, cuz holly, Amy and my mum. Great weather so ate out side. Really nics to seem them all !
Dalby night ride
Went up to dalby Wednesday just gone. Beautiful evening and some great mbking. Got to do some off piest stuff I've not seen before. Bike not performing brilliantly. Breaks rubbing.
Friday 15 April 2011
Wednesday 13 April 2011
Tributes to Cawood company boss Paul Mack - Community - Selby Times
I have a print of this but didnt realise it was on the web to.
Tributes to Cawood company boss Paul Mack - Community - Selby Times
Tributes to Cawood company boss Paul Mack - Community - Selby Times
Monday 11 April 2011
AIR 2.6 Applications and the Amazon Appstore for Android « Christian Cantrell
AIR 2.6 Applications and the Amazon Appstore for Android « Christian Cantrell: "runtime will be downloaded if it’s not already installed. The default URI points to the runtime in Google’s Android Market, but starting with AIR 2.6, that URI can be overridden."
Sunday 10 April 2011
In general the last 2 weeks!
Last week, me, Jamie and my old boss Steven and some of his mates went up to Gisbon forest. Abso bloody brilliant. Hully gully was the scariest mazinn thing I have done so far on my bike. If u don't commit your a goner!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHeI2tPwIOM&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Yesterday was a bit of a fair well to one of my mates I have known for a long time, tom. He's off roaming the world in seek of his riches, fun times and women. Good luck with that!
Today, intact all weekend we have had great weather. Me and nicola took a walk into town. Had something to eat next to the river at some boat cafe. Exactly where we used to moor my dads boat up. Very good memories their when I was a young lad. me my mum and dad would stop over night on the boat. Good times...
Friday 8 April 2011
Sunday 6 March 2011
Dalby ..again
Went to dalby yesterday.... on my own really good although parts off it I still couldn't ride because of strong winds from over a month ago that took down some trees. I only stopped a couple of times on the track and once for lunch. This time I had install a app called my tracks that when switched on creates a trailing position of your moment. Absolutely fantastic for days like yesterday....
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msa=0&msid=216271964678646182456.00049dcd05e5b103703b6
Toward the end of the ride when my body had just given up some guy in his late 50s came whistling past me.. amazing, hope I'm as healthy as that when I'm older!
Vhub award
Recently the vhub I developed the interface for was taken over to a industry show in Ireland. it did so well that it run product of the show! Above is the marvelous award we received for it.... a sea horse crystal.... cause that makes sense. Anyway its the thought that counts!
Monday 28 February 2011
National railway museum
Even though we live in York and have been visiting York all our lives unbelievably we have never actually been to the railway museum! We went with a work college of mine, Joe armitage and his family. We had great day, I actually enjoyed looking at the trains. There quit a feet of engineering, engineering master pieces! And most of them are getting on to be hundred year old. They had a bullet train which is something that I've always want to go on and I finally got the chance! We also got to ride the Hogwats express as used in the harry potter films!
We had the kids with us which was great to see how excited they get, but I might go back one afternoon to have time to read up on some of the trains
Sunday 6 February 2011
First run at dalby
Took my new bike up to dalby yesterday. It's a specialized pro pitch. Absolutely awesome, such a difference from my old bike. Cuts through it like butter. Really looks after me and so easy to control. I have no idea about how bikes work, I just no I love riding um!
Saturday 29 January 2011
centre parcs spa
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Wednesday 26 January 2011
vhub- biggest day yet in my career.
I'm writing this on the train down to London. This week the vhub, a jukebox I have been heavily involved with the development of had its unveiling to the public at the industrys main event. The eag EXPO. It's been a big week for sound leisure who I work for. But for me It's what I've been chasing for a long time, a chance to show I can run with the best of them. At school and for the most part of my career It's been a struggle. A struggle to get to where i am, a struggle to understand and learn about the industry Im in .. web/it/programing. But this is proof to myself that I am capable.
so sad that I haven't been able to share this week with my dad that died a year yesterday. One of the few who understood and saw the struggles in the career I chose. But like he said many years ago now.... things turn out alright in the end.
so sad that I haven't been able to share this week with my dad that died a year yesterday. One of the few who understood and saw the struggles in the career I chose. But like he said many years ago now.... things turn out alright in the end.
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Saturday 15 January 2011
night out
Last night was kind of my birthday night out. Went town with john and beese. I'm now in bed with hang over ow! Fleetwood mac tonight, betties in the morning, nics buying me some new trainers for my birthday and I get my new bike as well! Best day ever! Works a bit intense at the mo for a show that I will post about vhub gets It's grand unveiling.
Going to write a little advert that gets its content serverside
Going to write a little advert that gets its content serverside
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