Nick Charlton

Last weekend, I was in Brussels for FOSDEM.

I have a couple of small web applications that I have built for myself (wiki, system monitoring, etc.)

There are too many terrible articles on configuring Apache and PHP on the Mac, especially for Lion.

I read quite a few things over Christmas, here’s some notes on a few of them: Mobile First & Emotional Design These were probably the shortest two that I read, but both jam packed with some quite useful information.

I’ve recently been picking up PostgreSQL.

I’ve always found drawing graphics complicated.

Maciej Ceglowski on “The Social Graph is Neither”… “Asking computer nerds to design social software is a little bit like hiring a Mormon bartender.

Over the last two evenings, I’ve been working on a little toy.

A couple of weeks ago, I started a project which intended to pull together all of the stuff that I had learnt about responsive design.

Gitosis is a tool for easing the hosting of Git repositories.

A couple of weeks ago, Eduardo Scoz (ESCOZ, Inc) released QuickDialog, a rather nice way of producing UITableView based dialog controls on iOS.

After a bit of an issue with the original launch, Where’s Next?

After many, many months of development, my first iOS project is now in the App Store.

Today marks the start of the second week of my placement (actually, the second day of the second week); doing iOS Development at Rokk Media on the outskirts of Exeter.

Today, the University announced that they had entered into an Intellectual Property agreement.

Yesterday was the third iteration of the Digital Peninsula Unconference, at University College Falmouth, Tremough.

On Saturday, the second version of the Digital Peninsula Unconference was hosted in Exeter, at the Phoenix.

The documentation for Android’s ListView’s is a little sparse.

For a while, I’ve wanted to play around with the Arduino; the open source embedded hardware that’s stuck it’s claws into everything from the arts, to personal projects and much more.

On Saturday I gave a quick talk about TermiSoc at the Unconference in the University.

With this year’s integrating project, we were required to write a web service to integrate Android with the University’s Oracle server.

I intend for this post to hold all of the presentations and sessions that we’ve hosted for the TermiSoc Hack Weekend 2011.

For the piece of work I have been dealing with recently, I was required to implement persistence using XML in Java.

Last week I launched ProgComp.

This month’s lecture was delivered by Thomas Hackner, from the University of Applied Sciences, Hagenberg, Upper Austria.

Yesterday evening, Chris Hunt and myself went along to a talk at the BCS from Apple, entitled “The Birth of a Third Platform, Mobile Computing in HE”.

Long Way Down was a good series.

The default CSS bundle in TextMate doesn’t include any of the new features of CSS3.

After a few weeks of work, this is “Version 4”, of my blog.

Introduction For a project I wanted to use SQLite for dealing with it’s data.

Disclaimer: This could potentially bugger up Ruby and Ruby Gems on your machine, proceed carefully.

Tablets and small computers have always interested me.

It’s been a while since I’ve written down a set of thoughts.

After quite a bit of work, I have finally moved over to using GitHub pages, Jekyll and Markdown to power nickcharlton.net.

These are just a few quick notes to accompany Peter Upfold’s screencast.

Intro Yesterday my new MacBook Pro arrived.

After a request by Peter Upfold on Twitter for ideas for a screencast, I suggested he do something on Public Key Authentication.

Setting up sudo on Debian can seem daunting at first, but the process is really quite simple.

Note: I’ve since come up with something much better, which dynamically generates the content.

Where a full RDBMS is unnecessary, SQLite provides the perfect stand in.

Note: This article is quite old.

ApacheBench (referred to as 'ab' in the terminal) is a tool for testing web server performance by allowing you to test how long a set of requests per second the web server is capable of serving.

When working with DNS, it can be a painful experience.

The process of converting from one type of disk image to another is usually handled by the software created by it.

lm-sensors is a package which provides temperature monitoring under Linux.