http://www.zulutime.org/blog An African on zulutime Sun, 06 Jun 2010 13:34:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I have only had my HTC desire for over 1 month and managed to full my SD card. (I previously have also run out of onboard memory for apps - but that issue should be resolved by the Froyo release of android - where I will be able to store ... http://www.zulutime.org/blog/sd-card-full-on-android-phone/ insane complexity in finding the black and white option - does apple get a kickback from HP on the number of color print cartridges used!? http://www.zulutime.org/blog/snow-leopard-printing-in-black-and-white/ I spent an hour messing around trying to get HP device manager to communicate with my HP C4380 all in one printer/scanner It was working before I upgraded to Snow Leopard - I found several articles stating that you can just download the latest drivers and recreate the printer - this ... http://www.zulutime.org/blog/snow-leopard-and-hp-4380-problems-with-hp-device-manager/ ( "photo by Jeff Kubina") London startup - I think these guys are will do well - great for navigating orgcharts and finding 'stakeholders' and experts Their website crunchbase data ... a video http://www.zulutime.org/blog/navigating-company-orgcharts/ (photo credit to flickr:louisvolant) Just spent the last 2 days solid playing with my new HTC desire from 3 I was previously on 02 for 10 years but their network is overloaded due to the number of iphones on their network (this is largely due to the now expired iphone-02 exclusive deal ... http://www.zulutime.org/blog/2-days-of-solid-playing-with-htc-desire/ These are some of the tips I have come up with when I fly longhall: for longhall flights prebook seats away from toilet doors - either on isle or window check-in as early as possible pack one set wax earplugs one set sleeping pills wear lightweight trousers - no jeans ... http://www.zulutime.org/blog/notes-to-myself-on-flying/ Flickr has built in photo printing - but they charge 9p per print. http://www.photobox.co.uk charge only 5p per print. I used the flickr organiser to create a new flickr set called 'to print', then logged into photobox, chose 'from flickr' and the 'sets' tab' and then simply pressed the 'add ... http://www.zulutime.org/blog/photo-printing-and-sharing-from-flickr-to-facebook/ Photo by Scragz The browser security model Tarantula Crawler http://www.zulutime.org/blog/persistent-xss-crawler/ use bind variables restrict the rights of your web apps database user - no more rights than necessary (ie. no drop/create) in production mode, when a sql error occurs, only show a message such as "an error occured" - not the full sql that was executed http://www.zulutime.org/blog/protecting-yourself-from-sql-injection/ In this podcast 'Joel Spolsky' makes the point that the title 'Software Architect' shouldn't really exist and that designing high level software interaction is just part of a good developers job. ...are unsure that the title "Software Architect" is a good one. We're leaning towards it being almost.. a net negative. ... http://www.zulutime.org/blog/should-the-job-title-sofware-architect-exist/ This Puppet vs Chef article is a great example of a how a well seo-ed blog can affect the opinions of many. If you look at the initial article in a quick 'skim read' to choose a technology - you would conclude that Puppet is the best option. However there ... http://www.zulutime.org/blog/configuration-management-and-chef/ I can really sympathise with this graphic designer - the media industry is full of people asking freelancers for things as cheap as possible. Promising things like 'do this one cheap and there will be lots of future work' - which either doesn't materialise or is also at the same price. ... http://www.zulutime.org/blog/small-project-work-living-in-london-free-fall/ I guess its time to refresh my sql - moving into finance means I could be running a lot of adhoc sql queries. I am convinced I have used correlated subqueries before but had never heard of the term. A correlated subquery is a query where the subquery uses values from the ... http://www.zulutime.org/blog/correlated-subqueries/ The problem with the flare prefuse library is that flare is a commonly used word - so searching for examples on google results in a lot of matches other uses of the word flare. A simple solution is to use site explorer to find links to the flare prefuse website ... http://www.zulutime.org/blog/disambiguation-using-siteexplorersearchyahoocom-finding-examples-fo-flareprefuse-usage/   I found this  classification of different types of visualisations data visualisation - numbers in a graph, pie chart, barchart, scatterplot (quantitative data) information visualisation - interactive visual reprentation of information in order to improve cognition concept visualisation - mindmaps and other representations of concepts (qualitative data) strategy visualisation - company strategy - (I ... http://www.zulutime.org/blog/data-visualisation-classification/ I decided to clean up the first animation that I had learned from the actionscript animation book. It can also be viewed here. In the process I made some mistakes and learned a few things: I extended the object model to be more a mathematical graph based model - ... http://www.zulutime.org/blog/data-visualisation-continued/ Came across Barrett Lyon and the opte project - seems kind of interesting especially the techniques of creating large graphs of the webs connectivity "Lyon's work tracking Russian Denial of service attack extortion groups has been featured around the globe[4]. He provided details and helped coordinate with multinational law enforcement groups ... http://www.zulutime.org/blog/large-graphs-of-internet-connectivity/   Whist creating my first animation - I was trying to place vertical label text on the sliders. The text was not appearing - there are numerous forumn posts on this subject. This was because I was not using embedded fonts  I managed to get embedded fonts working as follows [Embed(systemFont='Arial', ... http://www.zulutime.org/blog/textfield-rotation/   You can try out my with my first animation here Several months ago I bought Actionscript 3.0 Animation - Over Christmas I have had some time to play with some ideas. I am interested in visualisation tools - especially things that help technical people understand better what is happening ... http://www.zulutime.org/blog/actionscript-animation/ If you havent worked with java in a while - I think you will find the following process interesting on catching up on where things have moved. Changes in Java 1) First there is a list of all the enhancements to java over time Ant and Maven 2) Ant is still great for building ... http://www.zulutime.org/blog/getting-up-to-speed-with-java/