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iPhone dev image processing quirks

I had a lot of problems getting image processing to work properly on the iPhone. This isn’t so much because the image processing I was doing was very tricky; it was more because of some apparent quirks in how the iPhone works its image orientation. Basically it seems that if you take a photo in portrait [ READ MORE ]

Twitmo iPhone app

I’ve been working on an iphone app called Twitmo which lets you take a bog-standard iPhone photo, and turns it into something a bit more interesting. You can then write a tweet by tapping on the image, and send the whole thing off to Twitter. Well, to Twitpic actually, but it’s effectively the same thing. The [ READ MORE ]

Phlomo

ok so I’ve renamed Flomo to Phlomo (there’s a toy company in the states called Flomo) and I’ve submitted the app to Apple. Fingers crossed. The whole testing and submission procedure was a bit of a pain. But now I’ve done it, it doesn’t seem too bad. I can’t think why the app might not be [ READ MORE ]

Flomo iphone app

A few weeks ago I decided to start playing around with iPhone app development. It would, I thought, be a relatively straightforward thing. Even small children could do it. But what to choose as a test project? Perhaps something stupid that made some kind of farty noise each time you shook your iPhone? Nah… build something [ READ MORE ]

IWMW2009

The Institutional Web Management Workshop (IWMW 2009) will be held at the University of Essex from Tuesday 28th to Thursday 30th July 2009. This is generally a great chance to catch up with what’s going on in the Higher Education web world. Oh and there’s great food and lots of booze too, not that I’m swayed [ READ MORE ]

Beginning iPhone Development: Exploring the iPhone SDK

iPhone development isn’t really all that much fun, but the end results can be very cool. Dave Mark and Jeff LaMarche have written a really nice introduction which makes the whole process seem just about manageable. Almost cool and quirky even. Importantly, it successfully captures the key to the iPhone’s success as a development platform: anyone [ READ MORE ]

technorati

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Drupal in perspective

Drupal prides itself on its community aspect. And so it should as a truly open source system. One of the good things to come out of this is the principle that dissenting voices should be given a platform. Hopefully what they say gets taken on board too. A talk titled ‘Why I hate Drupal’ at [ READ MORE ]

Drupal for education

Just noticed a Drupal for Education event going on at Sun's offices in London, on 14th May: http://www.drupal.org.uk/event/drupal-education-may-2009/14-may-2009[ READ MORE ]

Drupal: how to choose a CMS

  • April 19th, 2009
  • Posted in Uncategorized
  • By matthew

Content mangement systems are numerous. Ultimately they all seem to offer very similar packages. At Kent University we've chosen Drupal because it's open-source and free, and allows us great flexibility in how we build our system up. An added bonus is that we should be able to contribute our work back to the community, and benefit other like-minded institutions[ READ MORE ]

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