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Object-Oriented Programming Concepts (The Java™ Tutorials > Learning the Java Language)

2012-01-27T16:47:00.000Z

These are great explanations of object orientated programing. Im starting to look more at java and reading this has been a nice refresher for me.
I dont use inheritance much in my programing. Only program specific classes like "movieclip" but not normally classes I have built myself. Really feel I should be. But never have reason to!
Lesson: Object-Oriented Programming Concepts (The Java™ Tutorials > Learning the Java Language):

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Wolfendale – Ending Up – Listening & stats at Last.fm

2012-01-27T09:46:00.000Z

Like this...

Wolfendale – Ending Up – Listening & stats at Last.fm:

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Brill

2012-01-10T21:36:00.001Z

Sky News: Girl, 3, Goes Head To Head With Hungry Lion

And this

2012-01-10T20:46:00.001Z

A new favorite: Stevie Nicks - Stand Back (Eli Escobar Discomix 'Young Edits Re-Mix of A Remix') by @LukeYouth http://t.co/uvXHGGjF -- AORDISCO (@AORDISCO)

Will check this later

2012-01-10T20:45:00.001Z

A new favorite: This is It (Rayko edit) [low quality] by Rare Wiri Records http://t.co/ADsnyXmo on #SoundCloud -- AORDISCO (@AORDISCO)

Pinup

2012-01-09T23:21:00.003Z

yesteryear pinup meet modern cheer leader pinup!

New years eve

2012-01-09T23:21:00.001Z

Snap I took of York minister on New years eve

Oops!

2012-01-09T23:19:00.001Z

...for lunch

Just a few of my own thoughts on me and the industry I belong to...

2012-01-09T16:28:00.001Z

Still not sure why I'm switching languages... just feel like I have too because everyone else is...I still dont understand why?I could still build an awesome site in flash... I could still build an awesome phone app in flash...But instead I have chosen to use Corona to build apps... Its nice but I could of built stuff quicker in flash and with alot less trouble. And thats not for lack of understanding of syntax.Im just writing stuff in a different language because (www) tell me I should be? Very sheepish I think but I have to move with the times... even if don't quite understand why.. A language like action script is infact, to me at least leaps a head of the likes of javascript and lua.... Its weird looking at the syntax for these languages... I just think "aint that what actionscript 1.0 looked like 9/10 years ago?"... seems to me like im taking a step back in time syntax wise.

New Album: phantogram

2012-01-03T13:33:00.002Z

I say new... I've had it 3 weeks or so. I like this album, good to listen to while at work
http://www.last.fm/music/Phantogram/Eyelid+Movies

Worth a listen.

Also bought Soulwax - Nite Versions....
http://www.last.fm/music/Soulwax/Nite%2520Versions?ac=soulwax

Just because I lost it and there my favourite band!

Rayko - i can t stand the rain (rayko edit)

2011-12-21T23:28:00.003Z

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

Corona Modules... the little buggers.

2011-12-14T23:18:00.000Z

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.

Christmas tree

2011-12-13T23:47:00.001Z

This years tree could hardly fit in the car. As big as the inside of a Corsa.

Christmas fair Hyde park

2011-12-08T23:59:00.001Z

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 twitter

2011-12-08T23:51:00.001Z

New Twitter functionality looks to be shapping up nicely!

Mashable - The Social Media Guide

New platforms, ads, and more! | Ansca Mobile Blog | » Archive

2011-12-08T10:15:00.000Z

I think I will be taking a look at this tonight.

Just shipped: New platforms, ads, and more! | Ansca Mobile Blog | » Archive:

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STANLEY CHOW ILLUSTRATION

2011-12-07T16:47:00.000Z

Love these illustrations

STANLEY CHOW ILLUSTRATION:

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AOR DISCO: AOR DISCO LIVE with Steve Lee and Graeme Fisher

2011-12-07T12:29:00.000Z

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:

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genius...

2011-12-07T09:35:00.000Z

volkswagen-1960s.jpg (590×756):

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Music

2011-12-07T09:01:00.001Z

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.

Steve Jobs’ Vision of the World « Strack @ Adobe

2011-12-06T14:30:00.000Z

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:

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Train down to London for a wedding

2011-12-04T19:42:00.001Z

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....

Another odd occurance... Thanks dad.

2011-11-24T13:23:00.001Z

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"

....

Next gen touchscreen

2011-11-22T23:59:00.001Z

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

2011-11-21T12:20:00.001Z

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

2011-11-17T09:25:00.001Z

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

2011-11-10T12:48:00.003Z

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

2011-11-09T20:34:00.001Z

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.

BBC News - Viewpoint: How do our bacteria help us?

2011-10-19T14:06:00.000+01:00

Really interesting article....

BBC News - Viewpoint: How do our bacteria help us?:

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Disable flex mobile auto orientate

2011-08-31T14:22:00.004+01:00

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

Mos mixers

2011-08-17T19:32:00.001+01:00

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

2011-08-17T19:12:00.001+01:00

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

2011-07-21T18:31:00.001+01:00

Hello World: Build a mobile app in five minutes | Adobe Developer Connection

KinectNUI enables Minority Report style interaction in Windows sans gloves (video) -- Engadget

2011-06-27T15:58:00.000+01:00

KinectNUI enables Minority Report style interaction in Windows sans gloves (video) -- Engadget

notes for app...

2011-06-14T09:07:00.000+01:00

NUMBER OF CALERIES

highest scrore (LARGEST NUMBER OF UNITS ON CONSUMMED ON CRUISE)

work out BAC

track spending amount

[AS3]How do i sort a object array? - Flash Kit Community Forums

2011-06-13T16:21:00.000+01:00

**modified for boozer...

records.sortOn(["name"]);

[AS3]How do i sort a object array? - Flash Kit Community Forums

2011-06-06T23:45:00.001+01:00

Adobe AIR Launchpad - Adobe Labs

Movements – Solar Fields – Listen and discover music at Last.fm

2011-06-03T15:04:00.000+01:00

Movements – Solar Fields – Listen and discover music at Last.fm

Morning Star – Flunk – Listen and discover music at Last.fm

2011-06-03T10:14:00.000+01:00

Morning Star – Flunk – Listen and discover music at Last.fm

Begin to Hope – Regina Spektor – Listen and discover music at Last.fm

2011-06-02T16:35:00.000+01:00

Begin to Hope – Regina Spektor – Listen and discover music at Last.fm

2011-05-17T08:45:00.001+01:00

Fabio Biondi Blog » Blog Archive » Flash Developer Planet - Free App for Android

2011-05-11T23:40:00.000+01:00

Flex.org - Adobe Flex Resources

Riceboy Sleeps – Jónsi & Alex – Discover music at Last.fm

2011-05-11T13:29:00.000+01:00

Riceboy Sleeps – Jónsi & Alex – Discover music at Last.fm

Android 0-click NFC sharing demonstrated in Ice Cream Sandwich (video) -- Engadget

2011-05-11T13:16:00.000+01:00

Android 0-click NFC sharing demonstrated in Ice Cream Sandwich (video) -- Engadget

Ride round York/Steven k amos

2011-05-10T19:36:00.001+01:00

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!

ADC Presents - Build Your First Flex 4.5 Application | Adobe TV

2011-05-09T14:32:00.000+01:00

ADC Presents - Build Your First Flex 4.5 Application | Adobe TV

Bank holiday royal wedding / hangover.

2011-05-07T21:01:00.001+01:00

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

WebGL Globe

2011-05-06T12:15:00.000+01:00

WebGL Globe

Life Of A Ghost – Blue Foundation – Listen and discover music at Last.fm

2011-04-27T08:59:00.000+01:00

Buy this album at some point---

Life Of A Ghost – Blue Foundation – Listen and discover music at Last.fm

Family

2011-04-22T22:36:00.001+01:00

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

2011-04-22T22:33:00.001+01:00

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.

Four Tet – Free listening, videos, concerts, stats, & pictures at Last.fm

2011-04-15T14:58:00.000+01:00

Four Tet – Free listening, videos, concerts, stats, & pictures at Last.fm

The Flower Book – Emilie Simon – Listen and discover music at Last.fm

2011-04-15T13:37:00.000+01:00

The Flower Book – Emilie Simon – Listen and discover music at Last.fm

Tributes to Cawood company boss Paul Mack - Community - Selby Times

2011-04-13T13:03:00.000+01:00

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

AIR 2.6 Applications and the Amazon Appstore for Android « Christian Cantrell

2011-04-11T17:30:00.000+01:00

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."

theFlashBlog » The Big List of Molehill Demos

2011-04-11T17:29:00.000+01:00

theFlashBlog » The Big List of Molehill Demos

In general the last 2 weeks!

2011-04-10T23:39:00.001+01:00

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...

Box2D tutorial for the absolute beginners – revamped - Emanuele Feronato

2011-04-08T08:57:00.000+01:00

Box2D tutorial for the absolute beginners – revamped - Emanuele Feronato

Understanding AS3 getDefinitionByName (for all eval maniacs) - Emanuele Feronato

2011-04-08T08:45:00.000+01:00

Understanding AS3 getDefinitionByName (for all eval maniacs) - Emanuele Feronato

Dalby ..again

2011-03-06T09:45:00.001Z

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

2011-03-06T09:23:00.001Z

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!

National railway museum

2011-02-28T20:13:00.001Z

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

First run at dalby

2011-02-06T11:13:00.001Z

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!

centre parcs spa

2011-01-29T23:39:00.001Z

Been to centre parts today at Winfell. Spent the day in the spa. Hoped it might do something for my ears. But they still feel Crap. Going to have to go see the back cracker again I thinks! Lovely day though and a nice day out driving. Cars nacked though, really need to get that exhaust looked at. Steam rooms are great at cp though. A good few different types to choose from. Nice to spend a Saturday with nicola for once as well!