With the iPhone you easily view a web site in Safari, but you get the annoying bits of chrome at the top (the address bar) and at the bottom (the buttons). What if you wanted your site to occupy the whole of the screen? Well, you can pin the site to the Home screen and, provided that you make a few changes to the HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, you can make your site behave as if it were pretty much a native app. […]
READ MOREAs I said a while back, I was a member of the Kings College London Mathematics Society (a.k.a., KCL MathSoc) during my undergrad years. Now that I have a new flatbed scanner, I’ve been asked to scan the society photos and post them here, so here goes. […]
READ MOREA bit late in announcing this, but it all took rather longer than I thought. Not the creation of the MOBI file, but the publishing of the Kindle Edition of The Tomes of Delphi: Algorithms and Data Structures (hereby abbreviated to ToDADS). Let me count the ways. […]
READ MORETwo days ago, the Dell XPS 13 Ultrabook finally went on sale. Two days ago then, I bought one; no, no, no, not for me, you understand, but for Donna, to replace her old one. It’s the fully-kitted out one: Intel Core i7-2637M, 4GB RAM, 256GB SSD. […]
READ MOREOver the weekend, I finished Exile, a three-part drama series from the BBC. I’d ordered the DVD from Amazon.co.uk never having heard of the production, but since it starred John Simm (I hugely enjoyed his performances in both Life on Mars and State of Play) and Jim Broadbent (think any number of TV productions or movies, he’s one of the top actors of his generation) I felt that I couldn’t go wrong. […]
READ MOREAs I mentioned a week or so ago, I discovered that my book, The Tomes of Delphi: Algorithms and Data Structures, was out as an ebook. And that, since the ebook was mostly created from a mechanical process converting my PDF for the physical book, it was pretty grim formatting-wise. So, over the past 10 days (not continuously, I hasten to add), I’ve been recreating it. […]
READ MOREA reader asked me how the Extras tab on my blog was made. It’s a bit of CSS and a bit of JavaScript, so let’s describe it all. […]
READ MOREIt’s about time I introduced the first Hewlett-Packard calculator I ever bought. Unlike the previous calculators I’ve shown (Litton Royal 5T, Casio SL-800, Casio ML-81) which were replacements obtained long after the originals had been lost or thrown away, this is the actual calculator I purchased and used back in 1988. I can’t remember the cost, but it must have been enough that I also splashed out on the deluxe leather case to protect it. These days they go for about $150 on eBay for one in good condition with manual and standard case. […]
READ MOREI learned today that my book Tomes of Delphi: Algorithms and Data Structures is available as an ebook for both the Nook and for iOS devices like the iPad. It is not available on the Kindle. […]
READ MOREYou’ve probably seen those photos which look as if they are images of miniature landscapes. […]
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