by Jono Bacon | May 24, 2005 | Uncategorized
Today I put a new song online called Banished. This is a pretty heavy song that I wrote a while back. I had the tracks knocking around for a while (the music tracks) but I needed to record the vocals. I am pretty pleased with it. 🙂 Friday I head down to laandan taawn...
by Jono Bacon | May 23, 2005 | Uncategorized
Had a nice weekend. Worked all day on Saturday on the book, fixing some code and proofreading, and then on the evening we went to Burton to see my parents who were working in nearby Derby. We went for a lovely meal and caught up. It was great fun. On the Sunday, Sooz...
by Jono Bacon | May 21, 2005 | Uncategorized
A few cool things are going on: On Thursday and Friday I gave a PHP/MySQL training course, and each of the students signed up to PHPWM. Glad to see the group is growing. I have recently been asked to sit on the EuroOSCON Commitee, so this should be good fun. Last...
by Jono Bacon | May 20, 2005 | Uncategorized
Shock horror people, I have put a new song on here. After a bit of a hiatus away from my own music, I finally got round to recording and mixing a song I have had in my head for a while. The song is called Price Of Freedom. —–
by Jono Bacon | May 18, 2005 | Uncategorized
Been busy this week building some code for some different things. Much of this is to be used in the PHP and MySQL courses that I am doing, one of which begins tomorrow morning. I have been learning a lot about databases recently. When programming in PHP, I tend to...
by Jono Bacon | May 17, 2005 | Uncategorized
OK, for fans of the cute dog photos, here are a few more. The other day we decided to bath Banger for the first time and he was a little unsure of the water: After his bath (well, sink), we dried him with a hairdryer on a cool-ish setting and he fluffed up: It seems...
by Jono Bacon | May 15, 2005 | Uncategorized
What a hectic day or so. Firstly, last night I was fiddling around with getting Luminocity working. This 3D OpenGL driven window manager contains the so called wobbly windows that have been discussed across the net, and last night I got it working. Here is it in...
by Jono Bacon | May 12, 2005 | Uncategorized
Well, my experiments into web services have borne fruit. I successfully managed to connect to the Amazon web services and perform a query. The code was written in PHP and I used the PEAR SOAP extension. The basic premise is that you create a WSDL client with the SOAP...
by Jono Bacon | May 10, 2005 | Uncategorized
I just registered with Amazon to use their web services API. I have to confess that I have not done any web services work before, but I am quite excited by the idea of hooking into some existing sites to play with their data. I have a few ideas at the moment for what...
by Jono Bacon | May 9, 2005 | Uncategorized
Having the pooch around the house has called for some clever thinking. We have been wanting to leave him outside to play while we are in the house, but felt uncomfortable, just in case he eats a badger or something. So, I have set up the dog cam: It is a wireless...
