Sean
Mr chairman, fellow toastmasters and guests.Recently I was enjoying my jet-setting hobby of visiting international airports. I was sitting in the departure lounge at Singapore airport when a man walked up to me and said… … Read more
7 years ago 0
Sean
TLDR: Everything is twice as fastI recently purchased an Aorus GTX 1080 Gaming Box (see review) for my 9560 (i7, 1 TB SSD, 32 GB ram). I have been playing with and testing it for… … Read more
7 years ago 0
Sean
The following is a rough transcript of my toastmasters speech 7: “Do your research”DownloadsPowerpointPdfSpeechThe Luddites were a protest group that primarily operated between 1811 and 1816. They were primarily workers in the garment industry. &… … Read more
8 years ago 0
Sean
I do my development in Virtual machines. It makes it much easier to to back up and transfer my dev environments. However not everything works inside a virtual machine :(. Emulator that themselves rely on… … Read more
9 years ago 0
Sean
The slides from yesterdays presentation “Hot tuna – Cross platform development with .net, Xamarin and MvvmCross” are available from here.Useful links from the presentationMvvmCross Stuart Lodge – MvvmCross AuthorTwitter &n… … Read more
11 years ago 0
Sean
SQLite has become one of the most pervasive embedded databases around. It’s built into Android, iOS and OSX and is a part of many applications. It has also become the recommended client side database for… … Read more
12 years ago in .NET, C++, database, SQLite, sqlite.net0
Sean
I attended the Rad Studio World Tour today in Auckland. Delphi XE2 has some nice features (x64, OSX, FireMonkey) but the standout for me was the iOS support.Developing for the iPhone et al is mostly… … Read more
13 years ago 0
Sean
If you have used image editing and manipulation in delphi, there is a good change you have used or heard of ImageEn components. I have used them in my photo printing program, Pics Print.The ImageEn… … Read more
13 years ago 0
Sean
English is a bit like html. There is a standard, but not everyone understands it, and there are a number of slightly incompatible implementations.This is most obvious in spoken English where accents, and idioms vary… … Read more
14 years ago 0
Sean
Microsoft have released a free toolset for developing Windows Phone 7 applications. However you cannot debug or deploy onto actual hardware until you create a developer account @ $99 per year.In my case, I only… … Read more
14 years ago in C++, winphone70
Sean
According to Microsoft, installing the windows phone developer tools into a virtual machine is not supported. This is because the phone emulator is itself a virtual machine and, as Inception has shown, running a virtual… … Read more
14 years ago in virtual machines, vmware, winphone70
Sean
Links, slides and sample code from my .net Unit Testing 101 presentation.NUnit – unit testing library TestDriven.net – Visual Studio integrationLightspeed ORM Free or full version is needed to run the sample codePragmatic unit testing… … Read more
14 years ago in .NET, C++, nunit unittesting0
Sean
They are playing advertisements for Pascall’s Party Pack on TV at the moment. The tag line is “All sweets you love, and one you can’t stand.” That pretty much sums up Windows Phone 7 for… … Read more
15 years ago in C++, winphone70
Sean
My development laptop is now 18 months old, which makes it older than me in computer years. As part of a mid-life refresh, I replaced the boot drive, (250gb 7200rpm) with an Intel X25M 160gb… … Read more
15 years ago in Delphi, Delphi Programming, virtual machines, vmware0
Sean
Advance warning: This post is only of use to people using Lightspeed or suffering from insomnia. The problemFor my current c# project, I am using Mindscape’s Lightspeed O/R framework. Lightspeed is a mighty fine product… … Read more
15 years ago in .NET, lightspeed0