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"

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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/

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!

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.

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.

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.