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A guide to hosted libraries

Are you hosting jquery or code like it from your own website? If you are then why? Why not take the free benifit of having that code hosted for you because if you did then you'd be reducing server loa... - read more.

5 Apr 2013

Using MaryTTS or OpenMary in Java

So now I've started another project (Again). This ones called Aimie and happens to be a robot with an AI coded in Java. For the voice portion of Aimie, I needed a voice synthesiser that sounded good b... - read more.

23 Dec 2013 - 10 Comments

Site Upgrade

New site upgrades. - read more.

5 Dec 2013

Geekroom V2 on Steam Workshop

So I've finally added Geekroom to the steam workshop, just do a search for Geekroom and you should find it. I thought that since people used to have so much fun on it and it had thousands of downloads... - read more.

6 Dec 2012

Responsive Design

Check out this test website to demonstrate my abilities with responsive design, visit the website at this page. To watch it change you need to resize your browser! It's a great replacement for separat... - read more.

19 Dec 2012

MVC forms in Umbraco

I've had a lot of trouble working out how to create forms in Umbraco because a lot of the documentation around is either for an old version of Umbraco, using a third party library or just not very hel... - read more.

31 Dec 2012 - 4 Comments

Android, updating the UI from another thread

So you can create a background thread for an Android app and happily do your thing. But now you want to update the UI from that thread you've just created and something's causing your app to crash. Yo... - read more.

4 Nov 2012

Umbraco MVC

I've been trying to convert this site to use MVC rather than the usual master pages and so far it's going will but I've got to learn how to use forms and find out how to access partial views via the b... - read more.

24 Nov 2012

Multiple background threads in Android app

So I ran into an ussie with creating background threads in an android application and found that it's not actualy as difficult to fix as I thought it was, take a look at the code below to see how to d... - read more.

4 Nov 2012

Xperia U Android ICS 4.0

On the weekend I bought a new Sony Xperia U and to be honest I'm pretty impressed, its a nice little phone and well worth the money. I previously owned a Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 and it too was a nice... - read more.

4 Oct 2012