Comments for Chris Alexander

Comment on How to feel like you haven’t achieved enough yet by Peter Curd

Peter Curd — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:46:18 +0000

I read your blog!

Comment on Reasons why the University of Reading timetabling website sucks by Ian Field

Ian Field — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 08:46:31 +0000

Another thing is that the University use Live@Edu/Office 365 for email, which also has a Calendar on Exchange. If this were properly utilised any unscheduled room changes could automatically be synced to a device, or easily accessible on a large-uptime cloud solution. Though the administration of such a thing could be a pain it would make sense.

Comment on How to add a * DNS record in new 123-reg.co.uk control panel by Nerys

Nerys — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 13:17:19 +0000

Hi Chris,

My name is Nerys and I work for 123-reg. I would just like to assure you and your readers that this has already been raised to our development team to include this functionality from our control panel. Thank you for sharing the work around.

Nerys

Comment on ARNIE’s Brain: Kinect by Swords and Soldiers Review (iOS) - The Average Gamer

Swords and Soldiers Review (iOS) - The Average Gamer — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 17:14:47 +0000

[...] is a guest review from Chris Alexander, robotics engineer. Check out his Kinect-controlled robot arm. Sure, they’re not self-aware YET but with SkyNet just around the corner I’d keep my [...]

Comment on Giveaway! Beginning Android 3 by Chris

Chris — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 08:54:50 +0000

The results are in by random number generator and congratulations to Chris for getting it. I’ll be in touch to sort out picking it up etc.

Comment on Giveaway! Beginning Android 3 by Ian

Ian — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 06:30:28 +0000

I love Android because of the available resources for developers and the community that has built up around the platform. That, and the Emulator knocks the socks off the BlackBerry emulator.

Comment on Giveaway! Beginning Android 3 by Wenni

Wenni — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 20:59:44 +0000

I would like to enter the competition! I love Android because I don’t actually know what is it :p Don’t forget if you ship it to me, you can save the shipping fee!

Comment on Giveaway! Beginning Android 3 by Chris

Chris — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 16:31:08 +0000

I love Android because it is more accessible to the average person. For example, to become a developer it only costs $25.00 U.S., where as iOS is 99.00 US per year. I am more used to Linux and it is a Linux based OS.

Comment on Review: Beginning Android 3 by Chris Alexander - Giveaway! Beginning Android 3

Chris Alexander - Giveaway! Beginning Android 3 — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 14:43:34 +0000

[...] Review: Beginning Android 3 [...]

Comment on Review: Pro Android Web Apps by Chris Alexander - Review: Beginning Android 3

Chris Alexander - Review: Beginning Android 3 — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 14:34:51 +0000

[...] The remaining half of this book consists of extremely in-depth technical content for a wide range of Android APIs. While the start of this book was very much focussed on getting started with Android, the second half is clearly meant as a detailed guide to building just about anything you can imagine with the Android APIs. Preferences, networking, Java libraries, web access, services and alerting, and many other development topics and tools are covered in sufficient detail so that you know how they work and how to use them, as well as how to find out more information if it ever comes to that. The book also mentions some other technology such as PhoneGap, for bringing web apps to native clients, but if you’re really into it there are other books for that. [...]