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Re: Todoist: Now Integrated With Slack

dansumption — Thu, 05 May 2016 15:04:17 -0000

I tried this, and just got a page that says:

{"error_tag":"BAD_STATE","error_code":0,"error_extra":{},"error":"BAD_STATE"}

Re: IntelliJ IDEA 14.0.0 Web Help

dansumption — Thu, 04 Dec 2014 06:36:40 -0000

Is there any way of inserting the current Task name into a live template variable? This would be extremely useful to me, as I work on tasks defined by Jira ticket names, and if I could grab the task name using a function this means that I could automatically reference the Jira ticket in live templated comments.

Re: About

dansumption — Thu, 07 Nov 2013 13:22:08 -0000

I realise that. A title should always lie, a little. The subtitle, I think, actually refers to the group as "Francophone artists", which is closer to the truth though still incorrect as I know about half of the folks in the photo are English & mainly there to enjoy a good opening night, as we used to be able to do in those pre-austerity days :-)

Re: Introduce Field Dialog

dansumption — Wed, 06 Nov 2013 09:58:57 -0000

Is there a way of changing the default value of the "Initialize in" field. Almost without fail, I want to initialize the new field in the current method, i.e. at the point where I'm doing the refactoring, but very often IntelliJ changes the default to "Field declaration".

Re: Ten Vanished, And Vanishing London Experiences

dansumption — Tue, 15 Oct 2013 12:18:50 -0000

There's not one time when I walk through Leicester Square that I don't miss the Swiss Centre. It was an amazing sight, fondues in the basement restaurant were something to be experienced, and for a time it was the only place in Britain where you could buy Bergkäse.

Re: About

dansumption — Thu, 02 May 2013 18:04:42 -0000

Hi Barry, many thanks for getting in touch! Yes, I remember it well (I think it was closer to 15 years ago) - we still have the two paintings up in our hallway. We've bought, traded and received as gifts quite a few bits of original art since then, but it was your two paintings that started the whole thing off! Funnily enough, I was at an exhibition opening in Greenwich a couple of weeks ago, and thought of you, as one of the artist's work reminded me a little of your street scenes - you can see hers at http://www.jopeel.com/

This blog isn't entirely dead, although it's certainly seen better days. Nowadays I seem to spend far more time on social media, and far less writing longer posts. I keep meaning to, but... never seem to have the time.

Do you exhibit your work anywhere in London these days? It would be good to see what you've been up to.

Re: Why HTML5 provided more tricks than treats in 2012

dansumption — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 09:46:34 -0000

"We do not care about IE and we've actually told many of our customers we do not support it."

How do the customers you've not told feel when they find out?

Re: Why HTML5 provided more tricks than treats in 2012

dansumption — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 09:43:12 -0000

You lost me when you mentioned LinkedIn.

Re: Magazine - Hell on Wheels - The Atlantic

dansumption — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 05:48:05 -0000

The reason London is such a competitive place to cycle in is *precisely* because the roads are so dangerous, getting away from the lights first gives you the best chance of surviving to the next set of lights. It is *literally* survival of the fittest.

Re: Fat

dansumption — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 04:21:24 -0000

Nice one Guy! Things didn't prove to be quite so simple for me (as the next few posts will make clear), but then I still spend too much time sat in front of a computer, and I do (occasionally) eat pizza (and drink beer).

Re: Fat

dansumption — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 19:52:47 -0000

Yeah, I'm not quite the slave-to-routine that my previous post made out - and there is nothing quite so wonderful as being able to live by one's impulses (I still do this probably more than most: for example, last week when I needed some space of my own, and took off on a safari of random bus routes around London for 6 hours) - but I do appreciate having _some kind_ of a routine to fall back on and to keep me fresh for tackling the rest of the day.
As for using apps & downloads, I guess that's partly just my inner gadget-freak, but I do also find that without some form of guidance my mind wanders all over the place, and within no time at all I've forgotten about my breath and started worrying about what I'm going to have for tea or whatever. I'm getter better and better at doing it without guidance, but it's still very welcome to get some third-party input and new approaches to my meditation routine from time-to-time.

Re: Mindfulness

dansumption — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 06:34:40 -0000

Hi Diane, sure, no problem.

Re: http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/?p=100095338

dansumption — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 09:30:37 -0000

Why is the Telegraph so obsessed with printing smear stories about the BBC? I can only assume it's commercial interest.

Re: Leki

dansumption — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 11:49:48 -0000

Lovely to get a comment that isn't spam for a change! What's the
article you're researching?

Re: If you’re not on iTunes…

dansumption — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 12:51:18 -0000

Interesting. Not sure whether the TV company in question is BBC, but I know that there are fundamental conflicts between the (utterly, utterly inflexible) Apple T&Cs and the (likewise) BBC Charter. So much so that, in order to produce an iPhone iPlayer app, a group of BBC executives had to set up their own Limited company to publish the app.

Re: The Apprentice apps - what the expert really thought

dansumption — Thu, 12 May 2011 11:53:08 -0000

When I was working on BBC iPlayer, I gather that Apple's approach to the iPlayer team was very similar. Some of BBC's public service requirements are incompatible with some of Apple's terms and conditions, but Apple weren't even willing to discuss this, even though it would have meant having an app that would be downloaded by most of the iPhone using UK-public (and not just a "crummy soundboard app"). In the end, staff at the BBC had to set up their own independent Limited company in order to produce an iPhone version of iPlayer, as it could never be done underthe BBC's auspices.

Re: http://mybandtshirt.tumblr.com/post/4412313766

dansumption — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 18:30:47 -0000

PWEI always seemed to be playing at all-dayer gigs I went to at the time, they were the boring bit that you had to sit through to get to the good stuff. I suspect I would like them more now than I did then.

Designers' Republic though... they were one of the biggest reasons why I moved to Sheffield. I'd visited the city several times in the 80s, always found it grim as hell on earth, never wanted to go back. But then on a trip to meet my future in-laws in the mid-90s (about the time when they worked on Wipeout), I stumbled on an exhibition of DR artwork in The Forum: it was like nothing I'd ever seen before, I fell in love with it and finally started to "get" the crazy creative melting pot that is Sheffield. I moved here a few years later, and have never looked back.

Re: Embed types in ActionScript and memory usage

dansumption — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 10:36:34 -0000

Hmm, curiouser and curiouser - although I can cast a PNG to a ByteArray in this way, when trying using a JPEG Flash comes over all clever, and automatically creates it as a Bitmap object even when I explicitly set the mime type to octet-stream.

Re: Russian Cocaine

dansumption — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 00:04:48 -0000

This all depends upon your definition of "better off".

Re: http://broomeshtick.com/post/1591074519

dansumption — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 08:37:10 -0000

The best writing comes from the heart, but the best reading comes from the edit.

Re: Embed types in ActionScript and memory usage

dansumption — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:20:43 -0000

octet-stream because any of those other MIME types would not be very good
things to cast a PNG file to.

ByteArray because, as far as I understand it, this is the type of object
created when you instantiate an embedded Class of type octet-stream.

A little more background would probably help: I'm told we were tackling a
defect in Stagecraft whereby image loading didn't work as expected, and the
images had to be generated from a byte array. However, some other tests I
ran today seem to indicate that the defect's been fixed. It was a fun little
experiment to run anyway!

Re: Vicky Pollard has an iPhone 4; You are not cool any more

dansumption — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 04:58:48 -0000

...something else interesting I've noticed. Since I started working in an office where *everyone* has either an iPhone, an HTC Desire or a Nexus One, whenever I pull out my HTC Hero people gather around and coo "ooh, what's that?" Now the Hero, at one year old, is already starting to feel pretty dated, the Desire & Nexus run rings around it, but this makes me think about several things:
- Having a "different" phone is in some way cool.
- iPhones are bog-standard, and very few people get excited about them.
- HTC's current product line are all a bit same-ish, all a bit "iPhone wannabe with curvy edges". They're all boring. I'm actually holding off buying a new HTC phone until they make another one which looks as nice as the Hero.
- 1970s sci-fi, Space 1999-chic, white & rounded-off square bits, are *in*.

Re: Vicky Pollard has an iPhone 4; You are not cool any more

dansumption — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 04:53:48 -0000

I imagine Apple are more concerned with selling to a mass market than with maintaining some sort of niche exclusivity, besides which the hard-core of Macheads are unlikely to abandon them even if the phone becomes mainstream. I expect within the next year or so they'll diversify though: expect to see iPhone 5 in "standard" and "platinum" editions or somesuch.

Re: 13: A Song That Is A Guilty Pleasure.

dansumption — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 11:54:41 -0000

I also thought, for many years, that the song "Jet" was actually called "Check". And I always associated it with the checked gingham tablecloths in the chalet in Switzerland.

So many misheard lyrics associated with that album... I've just been listening to a few songs (very nostalgically, natch), and checking out lyrics. The bit in Band on the Run where it goes:
"...Never seeing no-one, nice again, like you, Mama, you..."

I always thought (though always felt it didn't sound right) that it went:
"...Never seeing no-one, nice again, like you, Farmer Pew..."

(Again, that tied in with the Swiss rural setting, sleeping above a cowshed)

Re: 13: A Song That Is A Guilty Pleasure.

dansumption — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 09:40:24 -0000

Like I said before, brilliant choice. I really must listen to the whole album again, but especially pleased to hear this song again. My sister & I must have virtually worn out the tape during road-trips to Switzerland in the late 70s & early 80s.