Recently I have had the fun task of trying to normalise colours between two sets of images in OpenCV. Being a photographer I thought the easiest way of doing this would be to use a Macbeth Colour Chart such as the datacolor spyderCheckr24 which I have for each of the sets and convert to...
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My journey with Kona Bikes started off with a 2003 Kona Kahuna, and today I became the proud owner of a 2015 Kona Sutra to add to my collection. The 2015 Kona Sutra is aimed as an intermediate level adventure/touring bike but also suited for your everyday commute or weekend leisure ride over a...
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Windows Presentation Foundation or WPF is one of the few things of the Windows Vista era that has survived, or that people actually use and enjoy. It was originally called Avalon and was the first step away from GDI32 WinForms based developing which was becoming more and more difficult to create rich engaging applications....
Read more →When it comes to web design, one of the biggest set backs is trying to accomodate older browsers. Gone are the days where you could put a label stating ‘Best viewed in Netscape’, users expect websites to just work or degrade gracefully. IE6 for the most part has been the nightmare of most developers...
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At the weekend I had chance to pop along to the Wiltshire Armed Forces Day 2014 which was being held in a Trowbridge Park, lots of people turned up and there were lots of things to see and do. I’m not a military person myself and ‘the only way to win is not...
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Recently I have been helping my sister set up her website and thus am shamelessly touting it here. She is a woven textile designer with a keen eye for colours. If you secretly have a passion for textiles and weaving as well as technology, be sure to check it out. http://www.StephaniePfister.com
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Ever looked at your photos and thought they looked dull, or given a 5hr photo slide from a holiday which bored everyone to death. Here’s some easy tips to try out to make interesting and quirky photos. 1. Tell a story One of the easiest things to think about when taking a photo is...
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It’s been a busy few months! For the most part I even forgot to blog, so this is a whistle-stop tour of what I’ve been doing the last few months (cake!). In honour of this I have compressed all my cake adventures into one blog post. Cake truly is a wonderful thing!
Read more →For years there has been an ever growing Elephant in the room for most programming languages; concurrency and multithreading. Most underlying languages implement the concept of threads allowing concurrent tasks however most languages did not implement, or implement an easy approach to share data between threads. For concurrency there are really two types of...
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The Microsoft Surface RT tablet was introduced around a year ago as Microsofts direct competitor to the iPad. It featured premium hardware in a compact body and ran Windows RT. The tablet was offered with a range of accessories with a choice of colours. From the press releases and peoples initial hands on reviews,...
Read more →Managed development using .Net has always been akin to the concept of ‘standing on the shoulders of giants’ where code reuse and using the tools are concerned. Most .Net developers are happily content with the .Net compilers performance however in the embedded space, eecking out the tiniest piece of performance is sometimes essencial, thus...
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Its one of the worlds worst kept secrets. Every year at the WWDC; Apples World Wide Developer Conference, they will show off the latest and greatest. Most years they have showed off software releases – usually updates to iOS and OSX as well as bumps to their notebook range and accessories, so it came...
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