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Scala with Mockito gotcha
We do a lot of Scala over at Top10 nowadays. We also do a lot of unit testing and that means a lot of mocking. We’ve been using Mockito due to our familiarity with it as Java developers and because … Continue reading
Posted in Development, Java, Scala
Tagged Development, JUnit, Mockito, Scala, Unit testing
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Leaving the BBC. Joining Top10
After ~20 months it’s time for me to leave the Big British Castle. It’s been an honour to work for such a fantastic organisation which is very close to my heart. I’ve got to work on some great projects and … Continue reading
Most tweeted Columbo episodes
Sadly, Peter Falk died this week. This means a lot of people are tweeting about Columbo. Instead of doing all the things I ought to be doing today like exercising, working on an upcoming project and feeding myself I wrote … Continue reading
Posted in Development, Fun, Python, Twitter
Tagged columbo, columbo episodes, peter falk, python, tweets, twitter
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Twitter rate limiting and Google App Engine
@markovator has been silent for some time. He’d been replying to people but he’d not been able to come up with his own original tweets. The reason for this is the that he was being rate limited by Twitter. Initially … Continue reading
Posted in Development, Python, markovator
Tagged GAE, google app engine, markovator, twitter, twitter api
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Minecraft Tumblr blog
I created a Tumblr blog for recording our minecraft adventures rather than filling this site up. I’ve cross posted the original minecraft post from here and added a couple more. New Floor and a Better Farm Valentines Day More to … Continue reading
Minecraft
I’ve been playing Minecraft single player for a while now and it’s great. Everything you’ve heard about the game is true. The whole mechanic hinges around the simple rules that govern the physics of the world and the unique experiences … Continue reading
A History of the World in 100 Seconds
I attended the History Hackday at the Guardian and helped Gareth implement his cunning plan to scrape Wikipedia for all historical events with associated geo coordinates and present them chronologically. The video above is the result. Unfortunately I couldn’t be … Continue reading
Posted in Development, Java, Python, Wikipedia
Tagged hackday, Java, programming, python, Wikipedia
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Neon Trails Live Wallpaper for Android
Since version 2.1, Android has had a live wallpaper feature which allows dynamic wallpapers to be built for the Android home screen that can animate and respond to touch and other inputs. They’re remarkably easy to develop so I spent … Continue reading
Posted in Android, Development
Tagged Android, Development, live wallpaper, neon trails
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Markovator – Python + Google App Engine + Markov chains + Twitter
As a child a chat bot program called NIALL made quite an impression on me. It came on one of those demo floppy disks from some PC magazine I forget the name of now. NIALL stands for Non Intelligent Acquired … Continue reading
Posted in Development, Python
Tagged google app engine, markov chains, markovator, python, twitter
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HeyGraph Javascript and canvas graphing tool
To learn a bit about the HTML 5 canvas I’ve been writing a simple graphing visualization tool in Javascript.
Posted in Development, Javascript
Tagged canvas, Development, force-directed, Google Chrome, graph, graphing, HTML 5, Javascript
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