Archive For The “Development” Category
Quick note to say an updated version of CraigsCrawl is now available – 4.1 Includes fixes to the crawl engine and how the URLs are distributed between the engines. Previous versions somehow got stuck and wouldn’t crawl, this is now fixed. Also the locations are back when crawling CraigsList. http://eighty-six.co.uk/projects/craigscrawl.html Enjoy.
I’ve recently been looking for something to create for Android, something that would be a challenge and not your usual pointless (iBeer/Flashlight yawn…) application. Being a fan of the Rightmove application for the iPhone (which sadly isn’t available for us Android users) I decided to see if it would be possible to create a version [...]
This example will allow a Android application to connect to a web service that serves JSON objects/arrays. This example has been derived from the RESTful example posted here. This app will connect to a web page/site/service located – http://rentopoly.com/ajax.php?query=Bo and returns a JSONArray of towns/cities and universities that match the supplied query. This service produces [...]
To celebrate my new purchase for a Google Nexus One – I’ve started looking into Android development. Android is built in Java and since I studied Java at University I decided to have a little play. From experience of using Android there are times when on screen messages pop up for whatever reason. In Android [...]
Java is still fairly new to me, I have about 4 months exposure to it. One thing that I like about the developer community is that there are various sources that can explain how to do something in anything. I often finding myself reading someones blog whilst trying to figure something out. So I’m returning [...]
My first semester back at University is almost complete, only two assignments (both completed) to hand in and then I’m done! This semester has been quite easy, I’ve had to do 6 assignments in total, 4 in Java and 2 in .Net. All the projects have been to create some kind of application, be it [...]
Ok so blogging isn’t really up there with my priorities. This just means I write more less often. My semester at Uni is nearly over, only a couple of weeks left followed by a short break and i’ll be starting the next semester. The most interesting thing i’ve learned so far this year Object Orientatation. [...]
I’ve recently got hold of my timetable for this years first semester at University and I’m quite excited!¬† My first year at uni was great, I really enjoyed everything I did except one subject which I felt was completely unrelated to what I was studying.¬† Anyway..¬† this year I will be studying Java along with [...]