Category Archives: General Development
Bulk-renaming files
I recently found myself needing to rename around 100 files. The reason was that I had saved a series of video fragments from the middle of a much larger streaming video – so the fragment number of each filename was … Continue reading
Installing Apache Cordova/PhoneGap 2.2 for Android development under Windows
I’m dabbling in several projects developing for mobile devices at the moment, and the first thing I’ve had to do is set up the appropriate development environment(s). One such example was to perform a fresh install of PhoneGap (the last … Continue reading
Beginning Kinect Programming (again)
I was pleasantly surprised when, earlier on today, a copy of “Beginning Kinect Programming with the Microsoft Kinect SDK” dropped through my letterbox onto the floor. I’d first noticed this book was being written a few months ago, when (like … Continue reading
Windows 8 Developer Preview
Like, it seems, many people, I’ve spent some portion of today downloading and playing with the first preview version of Windows 8, released in the early hours of this morning. You can grab the release either from the windows dev … Continue reading
Alastair Aitchison 