John Ward

The official iPhone App for The Lottery Winners

2012-04-26T02:14:00.000-07:00

Here is the app I have written for The Lottery Winners. Born in Salford and raised on romance.

(Click Icon or Here)

Excellent band, please follow!

Conditional Formatting in Excel

2012-04-25T07:40:00.001-07:00

Here is a great article to do this

Are you new to Linux? Here are Linux equivalent Windows Applications

2012-03-27T04:46:00.001-07:00

http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Linux_software_equivalent_to_Windows_software

Create a Static Front page on Word Press

2012-03-09T03:41:00.003-08:00

Firstly, create two new pages:

Pages -> Add New

Call one Home and one Blog or News

Go to Settings -> Reading:

In the 'Front page displays' section, select 'A static page'. Now in the drop down labeled 'Front Page' select your new Home page, and in the drop down 'Posts page' select your Blog or News page.

Now in the Settings->permalinks section ensure that you select a link setting that ends in '/sample-post/'. So you can use the URL www.<yourdomainname>.co.uk/blog/ to get to your blog (assuming you callesd the page 'blog'. Otherwise, there is little point in having static pages.

Effective C++ in C++ox (C++11) Age

2012-03-07T08:52:00.001-08:00

http://scottmeyers.blogspot.com/2011/03/effective-c-in-c0x-c11-age.html

Enable/Disable Remote Desktop from the Command Line

2012-02-21T05:47:00.001-08:00

This guy Sam Lesher shows how to enable remote desk, if you don't have direct access to the machine:

(Click here)

CPP Rocks

2012-02-21T05:44:00.002-08:00

Interesting CPP Website - CPP Rocks

http://www.cpprocks.com/

C Strings Example (Very Handy)

2012-02-01T04:07:00.001-08:00

http://www.cprogramming.com/tutorial/lesson9.html

Linux/Mac/Windows open source project

2012-02-01T03:14:00.000-08:00

The GTK+ Project:
http://www.gtk.org/

8 Ways to Build Customer Loyalty

2012-02-01T03:04:00.001-08:00

http://www.inc.com/geoffrey-james/8-ways-to-build-customer-loyalty.html

Printf Formatting

2012-01-27T02:42:00.000-08:00

%d %i   Decimal signed integer.
%o      Octal integer.
%x %X   Hex integer.
%u Unsigned integer.
%c Character.
%s String. See below.
%f double
%e %E   double.
%g %G   double.
%p      pointer.
%n Number of characters written by this printf.

No argument expected.
%%  %. No argument expected.

Embed PDF in website

2012-01-25T03:10:00.000-08:00

To embed a pdf in a web page use the following HTML code:

<embed src="weddingbrochure.pdf" width="850" height="575">

Here is the above example:
http://www.whitemare.co.uk/occasions/weddingbrochure.html

It is then down to your browser to take care of embedding the PDF program with the loaded document. I also include a link to the actual PDF underneath the embed, if you want users to be able to download the document. Chrome just displays the PDF document in a scrollable view, with no controls. IE and Firefox display the PDF document with PDF controls around the document. I personally prefer Chromes minimal approach.

Remove a startup application

2012-01-23T03:24:00.000-08:00

If you have an application that runs every time you start Windows and want to remove it first look in the Start up folder, normally C:\Documents and Settings\<User Name>\Start Menu\Programs\Startup.

If it is not in this folder then it is set to run in the registry:

Select Run, from start menu and type: Regedit

Then navigate to on of these locations, find the application name you want to stop running and delete it.

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run]
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce]

Be careful not to delete something you might need to run.

2012-01-16T05:44:00.000-08:00

Nokia, as part of it's efforts to regain it's smart phone crown have signed a deal with EA Games, for the next 25 titles. Would that make you buy a window phone?

Nokia gets another OS

2012-01-16T05:31:00.000-08:00

Nokia are buying yet another operating system, I hope for the company involved (and people who have put their hard work into it), that it is used. Maybe this is a replacement for Series 40? Or maybe another canned project in years to come???

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/01/09/nokia_another_os/

US killer spy drone controls switch to Linux

2012-01-16T05:26:00.000-08:00

Seriously, you would power a leathal Drone on Windows, well it appears not any more:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/01/12/drone_consoles_linux_switch/

Symbian and S40 here to stay.

2012-01-04T09:03:00.001-08:00

Nokia have announced that they are going to rename Symbian Belle to Nokia Belle. Now is this a move that suggests mathballing? or one that is look to move it forward.

http://www.techspot.com/news/46756-nokia-renames-symbian-belle-to-nokia-belle-available-in-february.html
I think for Nokia to maintain their low end market share, the S60 (Symbian) and S40 platforms are here to stay.

The shuttleworth foundation's take on this:
http://www.shuttleworthfoundation.org/nokia-symbianbelle-here-to-stay/

C++11 STL additions cheatsheet

2011-12-16T03:39:00.000-08:00

http://www.linkedin.com/groupItem?view=&srchtype=discussedNews&gid=100895&item=85011016&type=member&trk=eml-anet_dig-b_pd-ttl-cn&ut=1kmV9V-wAIK501

PDF Cheat Sheet Here

Good job by Alex.

Good CPP Reference

2011-12-16T03:35:00.001-08:00

http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp

Here are some good books for C and C++:

Open GL ES from the ground up tutorial

2011-12-03T13:30:00.001-08:00

Open GL ES tutorial for iPhone:

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
Part 6

Good PHP Form example

2011-11-29T06:41:00.001-08:00

Take a look here

C Technical Interview questions

2011-11-29T06:37:00.001-08:00

Not written by me, from here

What will print out? main()
{
        char *p1=“name”;
        char *p2;
        p2=(char*)malloc(20);
        memset (p2, 0, 20);
        while(*p2++ = *p1++);
        printf(“%sn”,p2);
}
Answer:empty string.
What will be printed as the result of the operation below:

main()
{
    int x=20,y=35;
    x=y++ + x++;
    y= ++y + ++x;
    printf(“%d%dn”,x,y); }
Answer : 5794
What will be printed as the result of the operation below:

main()
{
int x=5;
printf(“%d,%d,%dn”,x,x< <2,x>>2); }
Answer: 5,20,1
What will be printed as the result of the operation below:

#define swap(a,b) a=a+b;b=a-b;a=a-b; void main()
{
    int x=5, y=10;
    swap (x,y);
    printf(“%d %dn”,x,y);
    swap2(x,y);
    printf(“%d %dn”,x,y);
}
int swap2(int a, int b)
{
    int temp;
    temp=a;
    b=a;
    a=temp;
    return 0;
}
Answer: 10, 5
10, 5
What will be printed as the result of the operation below:

main()
{
    char *ptr = ” Cisco Systems”;
    *ptr++; printf(“%sn”,ptr);
    ptr++;
    printf(“%sn”,ptr); }
Answer:Cisco Systems
isco systems
What will be printed as the result of the operation below:

main()
{
    char s1[]=“Cisco”;
    char s2[]= “systems”;
    printf(“%s”,s1);
}
Answer: Cisco
What will be printed as the result of the operation below:

main()
{
    char *p1;
    char *p2;     p1=(char *)malloc(25);
    p2=(char *)malloc(25);
    strcpy(p1,”Cisco”);
    strcpy(p2,“systems”);
    strcat(p1,p2);
    printf(“%s”,p1);
}
Answer: Ciscosystems
The following variable is available in file1.c, who can access it?:
```
static int average;
```
Answer: all the functions in the file1.c can access the variable.
WHat will be the result of the following code?

#define TRUE 0 // some code while(TRUE)
{
// some code
}
Answer: This will not go into the loop as TRUE is defined as 0.
What will be printed as the result of the operation below:

int x;
int modifyvalue()
{
    return(x+=10);
} int changevalue(int x)
{
    return(x+=1);
}
void main()
{
    int x=10;
    x++;
    changevalue(x);
    x++;
    modifyvalue();
    printf("First output:%dn",x);
    x++;
    changevalue(x);
    printf("Second output:%dn",x);
    modifyvalue();
    printf("Third output:%dn",x);
}
Answer: 12 , 13 , 13
What will be printed as the result of the operation below:

main()
{
    int x=10, y=15;
    x = x++;
    y = ++y;
    printf(“%d %dn”,x,y); }
Answer: 11, 16
What will be printed as the result of the operation below:

main()
{
    int a=0;
    if(a==0)
        printf(“Cisco Systemsn”);
        printf(“Cisco Systemsn”); }
Answer: Two lines with “Cisco Systems” will be printed.

To create/decompress a tar zip (tar.gz) archive

2011-11-17T14:15:00.001-08:00

To create a tar zip (tar.gz) archive:

$ tar -zcvf <archive name>.tar.gz directory_to_compress

To decompress the archive:

(To the current directory)
$ tar -zxvf <archive name>.tar.gz

(To a specified directory)

$ tar -zxvf <archive name>.tar.gz -C /extract_directory/

Linux topics I'm going to add to this Blog

2011-11-04T09:46:00.000-07:00

1. Installing apache web server.

2. Installing SVN.

3. Setting up Samba.

4. How to enable remote desktop when you don't have a monitor attached to your Linux PC.

5. An update of the SSH topic, so you can access your linux PC from anywhere, securely.

Nothing new, but topics I want to have on my blog for Linux completeness. I will create links from this post as I write these topics up.

Website integration with your Facebooks pages events

2011-11-03T10:39:00.000-07:00

It is possible to integrate facebook with your website events using the facebook API's, without having to provide a login etc.

A solution can be implemented using a combination of javascript for the connection and php for the management.

See http://www.whitemare.co.uk/whatson/index.html

All these events are from http://www.facebook.com/thewhitemare

So all the administration is carried out on the FB page, and a small amount on the website. If you want to know how to do this, feel free to send me an email.