This is going to be my last post for a while now….tomorrow I move into a new house with my partner and alas I can’t get BT out to install a phone until next Wednesday and I can’t preorder ADSL until the phone line is up and running because it doesn’t show up on the Line Checker until the line is active!!! Probably a good thing as we’ve got stack loads of work to do on the house hopefully in time for Christmas!!
Signing out…
I’m making really good progress (i think) with Model-Glue. I now have a project to work on - a scoring application for my Radio Control Helicopter flying. Next year in August the UK is hosting the European Championships for a discipline of flying (F3C) I’m involved with. Each pilot (around 50 or so) flies a preset schedule of manouevres and is scored by 5 (or more) judges. My job is to take all the scores, process them and then get them out to the web ASAP. So far I’ve built a pretty neat application that is super flexible. In fact, it’s so flexible that it will probably work scoring any event that needs scoring - with a few tweaks here or there. I’m using the technique Ray uses in BlogCFC so I can change all the lingo used in the app from heli stuff to whatever event is being scored. I’m really digging Model-Glue, I have run into the occasional oddity but I hear that Model-Glue 1.0 will fix those problems (mostly relocating after doing something). Anyway, when i’ve got it more into a state where I feel happy showing it off I’ll post a link back here.
Orange’s new phone, the M5000 (aka HTC Universal) hasn’t even launched yet and it’s causing quite a stir and is certainly top of my list of MUST HAVES!
It features 3G, VGA Screen, WIFI, Bluetooth, Swival Screen, Windows Mobile 2005 etc etc - it certainly packs a mean punch, I’m just worried about the price!
See the M5000 on the Orange website.
One of my young padawans is learning the ways of ColdFusion and we’re now exploring the power of objects and what they can do for us. I’d given him an example object with an INIT method that looked like;
being a good and keen padawan he questioned what it did…It’s a simple enough question but I couldn’t come up with an easily understood explanation….uh, err - it returns a copy of the CFC with variables personal to the CFC stored within the CFC for other methods to call perhaps? Any takers?
Jared has made a really nice reading post on the whole CF vs PHP debate, if you’ve not read it for yourself then its worth doing as he puts forward an interesting argument.
You can find the entry, here
Things are progressing with my free mini MAC I’m trying to get hold of, I’ve already had one person complete an offer so now I just need 9 more. A fair few folk have registered via my affiliate link but now just need to complete an offer. It sounds like the Screen Select DVD offer is the best, you just follow the link through from the mini mac site and then register for a screen select account, you then go through their catalog and add to your selection list movies you want to see - then you assign how quickly you want to see the movies. The first 5 are free but after that it’s 9.99 GBP a month but you don’t need to go into a paid subscription - just cancel your account after receiving DVD number 4!
It turns out a few folk on Ebay are using it for getting their referrals, there are a fair few auctions for ‘nothing’ but provide links to the mini mac site via their affiliate link.
Got back from the F3C World Championships in Spain late Sunday night, had a great time nipping over to Zamora (NW Spain) for the weekend to catch a glimpse of the best pilots in the world do their thing.
i’ve put a heap of photos up in my flickr account.
As promised, here is my first bash at building an MG application. Granted, Brian Kotek had done most of the work and written the CFCs so I’ve come along and butchered a few of them and wired it up as an MG application. Most of the butchering I’ve done is in the product bean, I couldn’t get Brians original bean to return what I expected so I rewrote it. I’m not expecting it to be perfect, but hey - we all gotta start somewhere! Let me know what you think.
I’d like to say hello and welcome to folk reading my feeds via MXNA, I just received an email from the guys their saying my feed has now been added to their aggregators.
02, one of the UKs largest mobile operators has back tracked on a recent decision it took with regards to MMS messages.
Back in July it changed the format of how MMS message were sent. Previously, you were able to send a MMS to an email address whereupon the recipient received a text file containing the message text and a JPG of the attached image. Using CFPOP it was pretty easy to monitor a mail box and process files/images for inclusion as blog entries.
The change 02 implemented no longer delivered the text file/image to the recipient instead a nicely HTML formated email containing a thumbnail and a link to the image which had been sent, meaning the recipient then had to follow the link to retrieve the image - not impossible to retrieve by code but a real pain!
Now one of the guys hosting on my server had this exact problem and gave up on the idea of mobile blogging, but it turns out he wasn’t along and 02 have (or will be) reverting to the old format until a solution can be found. You can read more about it on the BBC website.
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